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Japanese popular music genre emerges as a specific type of popular music that builds upon the conventions of popular music, characterized by its unique cultural and historical context.
External reference — all senses of the word “J-pop” on Wiktionary. This atlas concept maps to only the slice of meaning relevant to the prerequisite graph.