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In order to shape the world you have to change something, make an impact and also reach out to a lot of people. I don't know Rain at all so I can't judge. But f.ex inthe case of BoA, I don't see how she changed anything. She is a korean star in japan, but foreign stars aren't unheard of in japan before. And how she makes any difference in rest of asia I woulden't know. SHe's still another AVEX idol, and her sales aren't that tremendous.
I'm not saying that rain shoulden't be on the list I'm not questioning that, but I feel like listing the reasons for why Ayu could've been listed, even though she's first and foremost a domestic star:
first: Japan is the second biggest music market in the world, and it's considered one of the toughest and pickiest markets in many different areas, f.ex electronics. Japanese fashion is recognised increasingly by the entire world.
Ayu is the female who's sold most in japanese history, thus reached a LOT of people with her music. She's also probably the east asian based female artist with the biggest fanbase world-wide (judging from the amount information in english on the internet). Her remixes has reached every corner of the planet. (When ferry corsten was in norway Ayumi Hamasaki was even mentioned in the articles and ads, also the drizzly releases).
She's held responsible for changing japan and it's music, being the first idol to write her own music and lyrics. In that way she changed the old "aidoru"-image. Now there are a lot of girls writing own music and lyrics, the most famous one being Ai Otsuka.
Ayumi is also very popular in rest of asia, her music hits number one in charts in other asian countries.
She started fashion waves in japan, thus affecting fashion across the globe.
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