48 Japanese singer stubs

AiRI is a Japanese singer signed to Lantis. She is best known for performing "Dreamer", the opening theme to the anime Tari Tari, and the song "Dream Scramble", which is used as the opening theme to the anime Keijo.

Hisako Arakaki is a J-pop singer from Okinawa, Japan, and an original member of the group Super Monkey's. She left at the end of 1993, and later worked as a dance instructor at the Okinawa Actors School.

Kousuke Atari is a Japanese pop singer. He is a self-trained musician, and performs in the shimauta (island-song) style of his hometown.

Yoshie Fujiwara was a Japanese tenor singer.

Akiko Futaba was a Japanese popular music (ryūkōka) singer. At of the end of World War II, she was one of the most popular female singers in Japan, competing with Hamako Watanabe and Noriko Awaya. In addition, she took part in the Kōhaku Uta Gassen, one of Japan's most famous annual musical television shows, ten times.

Kumiko Goto is a Japanese former singer, actress and Japanese idol active in the 1980s. As an actress, she is known for starring in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo films and the Jackie Chan film City Hunter. In 1995, she quit her artistic career and married the French racing driver, Jean Alesi, with whom she has four children, including Helena, Giuliano, John.

Kenichi Hagiwara was a Japanese singer and actor.

Norihiko Hashida was a Japanese singer-songwriter. His real name in kanji was 端田宣彦, but he used the hiragana rendering of his name as his stage name.

Peggy Hayama born Shigeko Kotakari was a Japanese singer.

Hiroyuki Hayashi is the founder, guitarist, and lead singer of the Japanese new wave rock group, Polysics. He occasionally works as a remix artist under the alias POLY-1. He is known for having very energetic live performances.

Isao Hayashi was a Japanese popular music and military music singer and composer. He took part in the Japan's famous year-end show Kōhaku Uta Gassen eleven times. One of well-known songs composed by him is the military song "Shussei Heishi o Okuru Uta" , which propaganda vehicles of uyoku dantai have aired in Japan.

Yuka Kashino , nicknamed Kashiyuka , is a Japanese singer and dancer. She is known as one of the members of the electropop group Perfume.

Hachiro Kasuga , born Minoru Watabe, was a Japanese enka singer. He has been dubbed "the first enka singer".

Tokiko Kato is a Japanese singer, composer, lyricist, actress and activist.

Kawachiya Kikusuimaru is a Japanese musician and singer. He is a singer of Kawachi ondo folk music from Yao, Osaka.

Saburō Kitajima is a well-known Japanese enka singer, lyricist and composer.

Lili, often known as Tokyo Dream Girl Lili is a singer based in Japan. She is mostly known for her 2021 single Sushi which peaked to 11th position of Billboard's international chart of world album as of October 2021. She is known to have worked with Amada Records, DME World, Line Records etc. She also heads Tokyo Dream Girl.

Maria Makino is a Japanese pop singer, dancer and model. She is a 12th generation member of Japanese girl group Morning Musume.

Ritsuko Matsuda is the birth name of LINA, a J-pop singer from Okinawa, Japan, and a member of the group Super Monkey's from 1995. After the group disbanded, she formed the group MAX with other Super Monkey's vocalists.

Sumako Matsui was a Japanese actress and singer. Born as Masako Kobayashi in Matsushiro, Nagano, Nagano Prefecture as the fifth daughter and last of nine children of Tohta Kobayashi, she was adopted by the Hasegawa family in Ueda at the age of six and in 1900 graduated Ueda school. She had to return to her birth family after her adopted father died, however in the year of her return, her natural father also died. At the age of 17 she moved to Tokyo.

Yumi Matsuzawa is a Japanese singer from Fujimi, Saitama. She is best known for her debut release, "You Get to Burning", the opening theme for Martian Successor Nadesico, as well as the movie version's theme song "Dearest".

Michiya Mihashi, born Michiya Kitazawa in Kamiiso, Hokkaidō, was a famous enka singer in postwar Japan. Along with Hachiro Kasuga and Hideo Murata, he was regarded as one of the most notable singers to have established the genre enka.

Reina Miyauchi is a J-pop singer from Okinawa, Japan, and current member of the group MAX. She made her debut with the group Super Monkey's on 25 January 1995, and then, after the departure of Namie Amuro, she formed the group MAX with the remaining group members.

Kōzō Murashita was a Japanese singer-songwriter who was born in Minamata, Kumamoto, Japan. He died of a brain hemorrhage after hitting his head at a rehearsal in 1999.

Hideo Murata was a Japanese rōkyoku and enka singer. He took part in the Kōhaku Uta Gassen 27 times.

Kokomi Naruse is a Japanese singer and former AV actress born in Niigata Prefecture.

Ayaka Nishiwaki , nicknamed A~chan , is a Japanese singer and dancer. She is known as one of the members of the Japanese electropop group Perfume.

Haruo Oka , real name Tatsuo Sasaki , was a Japanese ryūkōka singer.

Eizo Sakamoto is a Japanese musician, singer and songwriter who was born in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture. He is most famous for being the lead vocalist of heavy metal band Anthem. In the 1990s he started up the band Animetal which performed heavy metal covers of anime and tokusatsu opening and closing themes. He also was involved with the Anison band JAM Project before reuniting with Anthem. Sakamoto then began a new project called Eizo Japan which is similar to Animetal: more heavy metal covers of theme songs post-disbanding, along with original material.

Ayaka Sasaki is a Japanese idol. She is known as a member of the female musical group Momoiro Clover Z.

Sayaka Sasaki is a Japanese musician from Akita Prefecture signed to Lantis. She started her music career after winning the All-Japan Anison Grand Prix singing contest in 2009. Since then, Sasaki has performed theme songs for various anime television series, such as The Book of Bantorra, Nichijou, Garo: The Animation, So, I Can't Play H!, and Bakuon!!, among others.

Chiyako Satō was a Japanese singer.

Akiko Seki was a Japanese soprano. She is commonly recognized as the founder of the movement of The Singing Voice of Japan. In 1955 she was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize.

Jun Shibata , nicknamed "Shibajun", is a Japanese pop female singer-songwriter. In 2016 she was diagnosed with partial hearing loss.

Miki Shimomura is a Japanese singer, dancer, and fashion model.

Yoshio Tabata was a Japanese ryūkōka and enka singer, songwriter, and electric guitarist. His debut song "Shima no Funauta" was released in 1939. Along with enka-shi Haruo Oka's 1939 debut, his debut had a big impact on Japanese popular music because Japanese popular ryūkōka music of that time was mainly sung by classical music singers such as Ichiro Fujiyama and Noriko Awaya. He was born in Matsusaka, Mie prefecture, Japan.

Reni Takagi is a Japanese idol and a member of the girl group Momoiro Clover Z. She is the former leader of the group, before leadership was passed to Kanako Momota, and her signature color in the group is purple.

Yukihide Takekawa (タケカワユキヒデ is a Japanese singer-songwriter from Urawa-ku, Saitama, Saitama Prefecture. He is best known for being the vocalist to the band Godiego as well as his solo career and his work as an author. Some of his compositions have been featured in video game, anime, films, and television drama soundtracks. These include the Galaxy Express 999 film, Saiyūki, Genesis Climber MOSPEADA, Soul Blazer, and Choushinsei Flashman.

Nanako Takushi is a J-pop singer from Okinawa, Japan, and an original member of the group Super Monkey's. After the group disbanded, she formed the group MAX with other Super Monkey's vocalists.

Shiori Tamai is a Japanese idol, a member of the girl group Momoiro Clover Z. As of December 2012, she is currently voice acting in the Nippon Television series Akumu-chan as a personage from the dreams of Keiko Kitagawa's character.

Takayoshi Tanimoto , is a Japanese vocalist known for his theme song performances in Digimon, Zatch Bell! and Dragon Ball Kai, the last of which he sang "Dragon Soul" and "Yeah! Break! Care! Break!" as one-half of a special unit, Dragon Soul.

Ami Tokito is a Japanese female pop singer and gravure idol. She made her debut in 2005 Miss Young Jump, winning Tsunku's honorable award.

Tono is a Japanese actress and singer from Shizuoka. She sings in "Pepesale".

Bin Uehara was a Japanese music (ryūkōka) singer and soldier. He was known for using naniwa-bushi's kobushi vocalism in Japanese popular music. He was killed in action during the eastern New Guinea campaign during the Pacific War.

Shu Yabushita is a former Team BII member of the Japanese idol girl group NMB48. She was born in Osaka Prefecture and is currently based in New York.

Naoko Yamano is a musician and founder of the Japanese rock trio all-female band Shonen Knife.

Hiromi Yanagihara was a founding member of Hello! Project J-pop group Country Musume. She joined Country Musume in 1999 along with Rinne Toda and Azusa Kobayashi. On July 16, 1999, Yanagihara was killed in a car accident one week before the group's first release, Futari no Hokkaidou on July 23, 1999.

Izumi Yukimura is a Japanese popular singer and actress.