I saw this editorial at J-fan and I think that the author has a good point. I posted about this in another thread, and I think that anyone who lives in America and listens to Japanese Music has tried to spread it among their friends and they've probably all heard some of the same things. Anyway if any of your friends say, "This sounds just like our music!!!" or "The Japs(sorry) are ripping us off!!!"I've heard this one many times....I think you should read this and shove it in their faces. hehe
theres also one in there about masculinity in j-rock, show it to ur friends when they say GACKT is a girl...
http://www.j-fan.com/edit.cgi?selected=jpop_rip