"This is my story about searching for Japanese pop
music under a free culture license. It's a little tricky, because
the best sites for this are of course, in Japan, and not well
advertised on the English web. I discovered how to use Python's
XMLRPC library to run searches using the web API for a Japanese
music sharing site called "Wacca". The results were very
interesting — I found some of what I was looking for, though
not all.
"It all started when I was looking for character theme music on
Jamendo for Lunatics. One of the characters is Japanese, and while
she probably doesn't listen to J-Pop or Enka much herself (she's
more of a classical piano type), we felt there might be some times
when the cultural reference would be appropriate."
