Category:Kayōkyoku

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Pop music in Japan from the 70s. Kayōkyoku is a predecessor to more modern J-Pop.

Kayōkyoku has been described as a sex-mad alternative to enka (“speech music”), the sad songs popular with the older generations in Japan. Kayōkyoku has also been translated as 'pink blues'.