17th January 2016, 09:02 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: France
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Originally Posted by pimenta
^ There are quite a few old US and UK rock bands (much older than the still active japanese ones) still active to this day.
I honestly can't think about any other j-pop group... There are quite a few rock bands, like Southern All Stars, B'z, X-Japan, LUNA SEA, GLAY, BUCK-TICK, Mr. Children, D'erlanger and others (though some of those bands did stop for a few years and later got back together). But for j-pop SMAP is the one that stands out. I'm sure there must be others that lasted this long, but not with such a long living popularity as SMAP...
Mary Kitagawa sounds kinda scary...
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I would add Mr Children, active since 1988 and they mostly do pop / pop-rock inspired songs 
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