Japan is known for being one of the larges music markets in the world with recorded turn overs of USD 2 billion in 2014 and a total retail value of USD 2.6 billion in the same year, modern Japanese music has previously made impressions in markets as wide as the US and the EU. Japan has given the world plenty of lessons in art and music from anime to Jpop and will likely continue to do so for many more years to come.