7 East Asian Emo Bands You Need to Know

There is an emo band in China called Chinese Football and another in Japan called Japanese Baseball.

For too long, emo has been deferred to the white guys. Even the title of “Midwest Emo” — the subgenre that arose from pioneering bands like American Football and Cap’n Jazz — inadvertently implies that the space was reserved for suburbanites in one of the whitest regions of the United States.