( Columbia Music Entertainment, COCXР“СћР’Р‚РІв‚¬С“2760 Р“СћР’Р‚Р’вЂќ Amazon, CDJapan) In the course of tagging these albums as well as others, IР“СћР’Р‚Р’в„ўve built up a list of Japanese music terms. If Р“СћР’Р‚Р’СљР“ТђР’В¤Р’В§Р“СћР’Р‚Р’Сњ appears as a box or question mark or something, rather than the kanji character for Р“СћР’Р‚Р’СљbigР“СћР’Р‚Р’Сњ, youР“СћР’Р‚Р’в„ўre missing Japanese fonts.) (Note that if you don't have Japanese fonts installed on your computer, you wonР“СћР’Р‚Р’в„ўt be able to see the Japanese characters on these pages. Some of these people, such as Yu Miyake, have their transliterated names mentioned frequently on the Web and were easy to find others were very difficult, and required more creative searching and occasional guess-and-check. The names written in Japanese are exactly the ones that appear in the cover booklets of the two CDs, and the Latin transliterations were obtained through many hours of looking up kanji characters in the online Unihan Database and the GNOME Character Map, as well as various web searches. So I spent some time and did some research, and came up with a complete list of the transliterated names of everyone whoР“СћР’Р‚Р’в„ўs credited for the music on this pair of albums. When I returned home and copied the CDs to audio files on my computer, I needed to tag the song files with the title and artist names, but theyР“СћР’Р‚Р’в„ўre written in Japanese characters that I canР“СћР’Р‚Р’в„ўt readily type, and I didnР“СћР’Р‚Р’в„ўt really want to use the Japanese characters anyway since I canР“СћР’Р‚Р’в„ўt read them. These CDs were produced for the Japanese market, and are labeled entirely in Japanese. While on vacation in Japan, I bought the soundtracks to the PlayStation 2 games Katamari Damacy and We Р“СћР’в„ўР’Тђ Katamari. Up to parent page Katamari Damacy Soundtracks: Transliterated Tags Katamari Damacy Soundtracks: Transliterated Tags

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