[thefro]

The obvious first baby step would be to gradually release her albums digitally on ITunes/Amazon in Europe & the US and maybe do an e-mail interview with the help of a translator with some hipster blogs, etc. to promote that. KZK especially would be well-received.

If that goes ok, follow it up with a new album with a majority of English lyrics & tour. There's obviously lots of venues sized in-between a small club and an arena. She doesn't have to "conquer" the West but she can have fun, see the world, etc, and be in front of an audience that's going to accept more edginess in her music than the mainstream Japanese music audience. Although I think she'd do pretty well if she collaborated with the right folks over her because one thing she can do is write a heckuva song.

I don't think she'd want to go that far since any "World Tour" would be way more dates than anything she's done in Japan, but who knows. She's certainly not too old by Western standards.