Shigeru Izumiya is a Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese poet, folk singer

Folk music

Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....

, actor

Actor

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, tarento

Tarento

is a Japanese rendering of the English word "talent" and is used as a catch-all term for mass media personalities who regularly appear on television. Detractors of the phenomenon have referred to it in an English sense as "famous just for being famous" because many that fall into this career line...

. He established record company "For Life Records" with Takuro Yoshida

Takuro Yoshida

is a Japanese male singer-songwriter. He was born on April 5, 1946 in Okuchi, Kagoshima and raised in Hiroshima. He made his debut with the single "Imeji no Uta / Maku II" on June 1, 1970...

, Yosui Inoue

Yosui Inoue

is a Japanese singer, lyricist, composer, guitarist and record producer, who is an important figure in Japanese music. He is renowned for his unique tone, eccentric lyrics, and dark sunglasses which he always wears....

, Hitoshi Komuro in 1975. He also directed a film, Death Powder

Death Powder

Death Powder is a 1986 science fiction/horror film written and directed by Japanese poet/folk singer Shigeru Izumiya. It is credited as being the first core film of the Japanese Cyberpunk sub-genre that emerged during the 1980s, predating both Katsuhiro Otomo's anime film adaptation of Akira and...

(Desu Powada), released in 1986.

From between August 1995 and March 1996, Izumiya co-hosted the Satellaview

Satellaview

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-based SoundLink Magazine, , once a week with Ayumi Hamasaki

Ayumi Hamasaki

is a Japanese singer-songwriter, record producer, model, lyricist, and actress. Also called "Ayu" by her fans, Hamasaki has been dubbed the "Empress of Pop" because of her popularity and widespread influence in Japan and throughout Asia. Born and raised in Fukuoka, she moved to Tokyo at fourteen to...

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Singles

1970s (1971) (1972) (1973) (1974) (1975) (1976) (1977) (1977) (1978) (1979) (1979)

1980s (1980) (1981) (1982) (1983)

• UNDER PRICK c/w HAIR STYLE(1984) (1987) (live, 1988) (1988) (1989)

1990s (1991) (1993) (1994) (1994) (1995)(1995) (1998)

2000s (2007) (2008) (2009)

Albums

1970s (1971) (1972) (1972, CD rereleased in 2006) (1973) (1974)(1975) (1976) (1976) (1977) (1978) (1979)

1980s (1980)

• NEWS (1982)
• 39°8´ (1983)
• REAL TIME (1984)
• ELEVATOR (1984)
• SCAR PEOPLE (1986) (1988)
• EARLY TIME (1988)
• HOWLING LIVE (1988)
• IZUMIYA SELF COVERS (1988) (1989)

1990s (1991) (1991) (1991) (1992)

• HOT TYPHOON FROM　EAST (1992)
• WILD BLOOD (1993) (1993) (1993) (1994) (1995) (1996) (1997) (1998) (1998) (1999) (1999)

2000s

• IRA (2000) (2001)
• R-15 (2002) (2007, Limited Edition DVD Box set) (2008) (2008) (2008) (2008)

External links

• IZ Japanese official site
• A "music video" showing the Japanese lyrics with English translation to Izumiya's song "Black Bag" (黒いカバン).