Guitar Wolf
Boris
Thee Michelle Gun Elephant
Church of Misery

and indeed boris.....

Boris are great. Get Boris.

if you have the Hella dvd, the all girl 3 piece band that support them at a couple of shows sound really good as well, but the name is long, ridiculous and japanese so i can't remember it.

i really urge everyone to check them out, the album and eps are fantastic. jerky indie

was alright, but WEG's solo stuff just blows it away. So that. Really really beautiful orchestral-style post-rock but with electronic glitches and samples and occasional minimal piano bits and and and... yeah. Check it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pA1vIJ09J4

I also second Melt Banana and some of the other stuff already mentioned, as well as:
Susumu Yokota (ambient)
Nobukazu Takemura (electronic)
Cornelius (pop)
54 Nude Honeys (girly pop-punk)

I'm throwing Cornelius in there although I'm sure you (Mirri-London, not Marlvrum) already know and like him; and judging by your last.fm and other stuff you go on about I reckon you could also do a lot worse than check out some of the Shibuya-Kei scene that influenced him... Fantastic Plastic Machine, Pizzicato Five, Flipper's Guitar...

The Japanese Guns and Roses!

http://www.xjapan.ne.jp/

http://www.last.fm/music/X+JAPAN

by Cornelious is an odd but entertaining listen :)

nu-rave bogulta
http://www.myspace.com/bogulta
and the extreme maruosa
http://www.myspace.com/maruosa
looking forward to seeing these at the osaka invasion sonar showcase.
am tempted by the julian cope book on japanese music.

also Fushitsha, definitely check em out if you like the Boredoms.

FUSHITSUSHA
KAN MIKAMI

well worth checking out

Shugo Tokumaru

and also Yasushi Yoshida
and Kashiwa Daisuke

are the Japanese folk I can instantly bring to mind anyhow. Lovely sounds.

Japanese equivalent of M.I.A

Susumu Yokota

marvelous band

the album that ben chasny did with some japanese dude a few years ago was pretty good. "august born" i think it was called. high rise. masayuki takayanagi for some free jazz insanity. speed glue and shinki. brast burn's "debon" is a must too.

crazy. I remember chiaroscuro telling me about them.

the michelle gun elephant?

I bought one of their albums after hearing the world's most awesome song (that was not on the album) - thought it was really pedestrian.

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an album called Japanese Groupsound that came out a few years back on Get Hip. 14 or so bands I'd never heard of before (oh, and the 5678's). All killer, no filler.

And of course always try and catch Church of Misery when they play over here. They always kick ass.

Great band.

Also, for some nice japanese stoner/doom action check out Greenmachine and Eternal Elysium.

Also Tokyo Pinsalocks, Takako Minekawa Limited Express (has gone?), Dousidz, Muddy World, Adachi Tomomi Royal Chorus (in fact jut check out some of the stuff on Tzadik's New Japan series - lots of interesting stuff) are worth a look too.

nagisa ni te one means