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Yeah, I think it depends on what genre of Japanese music you happen to hear. The only time a Japanese song sounded/reminded me of an American one was Kumi Koda's "Without your Love" which makes me think of Beyonce's "Crazy in Love". Aside from that rare example, most of the music I own/heard sounds nothing like anything i've heard in the U.S. I think it has to do with the fact that even though a large group of artists fall under "J-Pop" they really aren't just "pop", for example, I would NEVER consider Mika Nakashima's music to be just "pop" (I would consider it Jazz/Pop). and even when an american artist has songs that fall under the same type of category, they never sound the same.
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