Editing Enka (section)

== International popularity ==
''Enka'' has had a strong influence on music in Taiwan, which was once a [[Taiwan under Japanese rule|Japanese colony]].<ref>[http://www.ith.sinica.edu.tw/quarterly_03-en.php?DB_Qua_MagID=81 Pei-feng Chen, "Images of Multi-colonial Taiwan in Three Types of Enka: Self-reconstruction through Highlighting Differences in Similarities"], {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130728034351/http://www.ith.sinica.edu.tw/quarterly_03-en.php?DB_Qua_MagID=81 |date=2013-07-28 }} Taiwan Historical Research, June 2008</ref> 
The first non-Japanese singer of ''enka'' was [[Sarbjit Singh Chadha]] from [[India]]. His ''enka'' album was released in 1975 and became a success in Japan, selling 150,000 copies. He went back to India a few years later, but returned to Japan in 2008.<ref>{{cite web|date=October 8, 2008|title=Unsung Indian, this Singh is king in Japan|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1196400|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021033326/http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1196400|archive-date=2008-10-21|access-date=2009-02-09|publisher=DNA India}}</ref>

In 2002, [[Yolanda Tasico]] became the first [[Filipino people|Filipino]] ''enka'' singer, going to [[Japan]] with her singles "Shiawase ni Narō", "Nagai Aida", and many others.

In the United States, while ''enka'' remains popular among a section of the (typically older) [[Japanese-American]] population, ''enka'' has many fans among non-Japanese.{{citation needed|date=August 2016}} There are some ''enka'' orchestras and performers active in the country, such as the San Jose Chidori Band, which occasionally performs at [[O-Bon]] festivals in the summer.

In [[China]], this form of music was prohibited during the [[Cultural Revolution]] because [[Mao Zedong]] considered it [[Hedonism|hedonistic]] and in opposition to the [[Maoism|socialist cause]].<ref>[https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13591835221135404?int.sj-full-text.similar-articles.6 Tourists of their own past: Aural palimpsests from the Mao era - Shelley Zhang, 2023]</ref>