Tokyo Boogie-Woogie: Japan's Pop Era and Its DiscontentsIn this first English language history of the origins and impact of the Japanese pop music industry, Hiromu Nagahara connects the rise of mass entertainment, epitomized by rykka ("popular songs"), with Japan's transformation into a middle class society in the years after World War II. With the arrival of major international recording companies like Columbia and Victor in the 1920s, Japan's pop music scene soon grew into a full fledged culture industry