{
  "name": "Japanese Music",
  "description": "Japanese meta-genre covers all forms of music, traditional or contemporary, rooted in Japanese Folk Music.",
  "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/japanese-music/",
  "parent": "East Asian Music",
  "level": "sub-3",
  "children_count": 5,
  "children": [
    {
      "name": "Eleki",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/eleki/",
      "description": "Japanese Surf Rock that emerged during the early to mid-1960s, incorporating elements of Japanese Folk Music.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Japanese Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Enka",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/enka/",
      "description": "Evolved from Ryūkōka in the mid-1950s, based around the pentatonic scale and with a lyrical focus on expressive and emotional topics such as love, loss, loneliness, and death.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Japanese Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Japanese Classical Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/japanese-classical-music/",
      "description": "Classical music of Japan.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Japanese Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Japanese Folk Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/japanese-folk-music/",
      "description": "Folk traditions of Japan.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Japanese Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ryūkōka",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/ryukoka/",
      "description": "Uses elements of Western Classical Music, and adopts the legato style of singing.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Japanese Music"
    }
  ]
}