in september rolling stone japan rated their album from the article in september rolling stone japan rated their album warning from stardust at no on its list of the greatest japanese rock albums of all time untrue this is the front cover of the september edition of rolling stone japan which would have come out in august or conceivably even july of it's the best reproduction i've found of the cover google image search may turn up a superior alternative unsurprisingly as it's a japanese language magazine it shows no article titled greatest japanese rock albums of all time it does however show an article whose title might reasonably be so translated furthermore japanese magazines love decorative snippets of english and it's conceivable that the actual article which i haven't seen is decorated with this or another english title the web page that this article cites for the claim that in september rolling stone japan rated etc etc actually tells its readers that the greatest japanese rock albums of all time have been chosen by rolling stone japan well they've been chosen by rs contributing editor kawasaki daisuke who also founded the very stylish pop music fashion design mag beikoku ongaku so the list could very well be worthwhile rolling stone japan is linked to its web page beikoku ongaku literally america music with a jokily old fashioned term for america is linked to beikoku ongaku com an anonymously run domain name running a website for some collagen drink put out by an unnamed company so the source says that the records have been chosen by one person kawasaki daisuke or daisuke kawasaki as en wp would insist on writing his name further there's no hint on the cover of the magazine that the magazine is presenting the list as its list instead it's just one article and it's presented as the third attraction of the month below a multipart feature on rock and ecology and also below something about bob dylan what kind of list is this the small print on the magazine cover is too small for me to make out but i showed it to mrs hoary a native speaker of japanese and without any prompting from me she said that it almost certainly says this means that it's a personal opinionated choice there's nothing inherently wrong with personal opinionated choices i'd take the personal opinionated choices of pauline kael over the collective wisdom of the various august bodies that showered awards over forrest gump but i'd take them because she's pauline kael not because the choices are opinionated if kawasaki is a noteworthy critic then the listing of course described as by kawasaki not as by rolling stone japan should be mentioned i know next to nothing about japanese rock music criticism but daisuke kawasaki doesn't have an article in en wp he's not mentioned in the ja wp article on rolling stone and i don't think he gets an article in ja wp certainly when i look for or in the list of articles in ja wp that list to the ja wp article on rolling stone i see nothing of course plenty of noteworthy people never get articles at either en wp or ja wp but without some indication of kawasaki's noteworthiness it seems odd for something like this even if it were labeled as kawasaki's opinion and not the opinion of rolling stone japan to appear in the lead of an article