Japanoise

Japanoise
Keiji Haino (top), Merzbow (bottom left), and Yamantaka Eye (bottom right)
Stylistic origins	Noise music
Cultural origins	Late 1970s, Japanese underground; height of popularity in late 1980s and 1990s
Derivative forms	Harsh noise
Fusion genres
Power noise Onkyokei
Other topics
Post-industrial music

Japanoise (ジャパノイズ, Japanoizu), a portmanteau of "Japanese" and "noise", is the noise music scene of Japan.^[1][2]

Nick Cain of The Wire identifies the "primacy of Japanese Noise artists like Merzbow, Hijokaidan and Incapacitants as one of the major developments in noise music since 1990.^[3]

Certain Japanese noise artists themselves feel uncomfortable being categorized under the umbrella of "Japanese noise", arguing that use of the term is a way of ignoring the differences between musicians who don't necessarily follow the same approach or even know each other at all.^[4]