... the favour of the Japanese public. The Japanese music industry concocted the system of idol trainees graduating into group members after a long period of exhaustive media training. However, the appeal of a Japanese idol had little to do with pure singing ability but rather youth, perceived innocence and aesthetics. Groups had several members, far more than the standard five in Western pop groups of the 1990s – the largest of ... content throughout Asia," he said. "The age of information technology had dominated most of the nineties, and I predicted that the age of cultural technology wo...

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