Yuzu aka Japanese pop-rock duo Yūjin Kitagawa (北川悠仁, Kitagawa Yūjin, born
January 14, 1977) and Kōji Iwasawa (岩沢厚治, Iwasawa Kōji, born October 14, 1976)
started life in 1996 when the pair were still in high school in Yokohama. They
began their career performing on the streets of Yokohama before taking things up
a notch and releasing their debut EP in 1997, Yuzu No Su, with their first album
arriving in 1998. Yuzu Ikka (ゆず一家) went to number six in Japan and was followed
by second album Yuzuen (ゆずえん) in 1999, which Yuzu took all the way to the top of
Japan's Oricon chart. The proli...