In around the year 2000-2001, wanted to hear some Japanese music so I downloaded (on NAPSTER!) one of the songs that came up then I searched for 'Japanese pop' - it was Powder Snow (or PS II?). I didn't really like it, and forgot about it. Then sometime probably 2002ish I became friends with one of the Japanese exchange students and told her I wanted to hear some Japanese music - so we swapped CDs. She gave me Ayu's A BEST, and a CD by Kuraki Mai. I was a fan after that, and joined this forum a year or so after
