"As Kazuya Kosaka and other young country musicians earned wider popularity, they learned that new artists in the US, like Elvis Presley, were sweeping away American audiences. In the series “the Legacy of Western Singer" in Music Life in 1956, music writer Takatada Ihara introduced “the one-of-a-kind singer Elvis Presley who has emerged like a comet out of the blue.” Presley’s look and sound were novel among country musicians in Japan so Kosaka and fellow country artists began recording Presley’s repertoires with Japanese lyrics as new style of country & western. Taking off his cowboy outfits and changing into Presley-type suits and jackets, Kosaka released “Heartbreak Hotel” in Japanese from Japanese Columbia. Previously known as the “Japanese Lefty (Frizzell),” Kosaka now became known as the “Japanese Presley. By the late 1950s, the country & western in the mainstream Japanese popular music sounded like Elvis Presley, if not rock ‘n’ roll. Since the emergence of Elvis Presley, these writers and fans celebrated country & western musicians in Japan began playing a “new style” of music more driven by the rhythm and some sung in Japanese. Some writers called this recent western music as “western with youthfulness and taste..."