The arguments are clear: (1) a lot of people speak English, some people speak Japanese (2) if analyzing involves deconstructing the music within a cultural context, the Japanese culture is too far removed to do any of the analyzing unless you were born and raised within that culture. There are of course, numerous problems with why criticism of Japanese music is in absentia, the most important which is obvious: everything about music criticism has stemmed around the Western world of music. I might even venture to say I wish it existed at all. I wish that the concept of serious Japanese pop and rock criticism was, on the whole, more prevalent.
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