I bought “Sweet Ann” yesterday. (Yeah, I’m a contrary person…)
This is an interesting software for me, but now I realize that it is very difficult to make Japanese spoken by English vocaloid.
I regret a bit that I’m a contrary person, haha. 
I can understand roughly what vadarfone said and I agree too…
I find this statement funny because a lot of japanese chiptune composers use music macro language and that’s completely unintuitive when you look at it…just typing up numbers and letters and symbols in a text file? 
Here’s a link to how to write MML…you tell me which is easier (and obviously has more instant gratification of being able to hear what you do)!
it’s the other side of the globe, it’s reason enough to be different.
my guess is some Japanese music board out there contains
discussions about how Western music adds a little “I dunno what”.
This is why I like japan. , also tempura.
More seriously, I’m not really into the “mainstream japanese music”, but japan defenitly have a nice electro scene :
-Ken Ishii.
-Toshio Iwai.
-Tujiko Noriko.
-The japanese happy hardcore/gabber/anythingcore scene : Sharpnel Label, m1dy.
-Asa Chang & Junray.
-etc…
I also like a lot the countless genres of “traditional Japanese music”, which are as much great and interesting as persians genres.
lol @ French guy avoiding use of “je ne sais quois” 
Yeah, that is where it is at. I regularly go to Shamisen concerts and live shows. Real energy to the sound that gets me going.
In fact, I am off to one tonight.
I might even try to record it if they let me…
Word, i get what you’re saying now.
‘big in japan’ is an awesome song by tom waits, featuring les claypool.