'''Idola''' ([[bahasa Jepun]]: アイドル ''aidoru'') di [[Jepun]] adalah [[artis]] muda serta imut yang dapat berkiprah dalam pelbagai bidang, antara lain sebagai [[penyanyi]], [[pelakon]], model atau [[tarento]]model.<ref name="Amazon.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.amazon.com/Islands-Eight-Million-Smiles-Contemporary/dp/0674017730|title=Amazon.com: Editorial Review: Islands of Eight Million Smiles: Idol Performance and Symbolic Production in Contemporary Japan (Harvard East Asian Monographs)|publisher=Amazon.com, Inc.|accessdate=2014-05-05|language=Inggeris|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/68TMwzHen|archivedate=2012-06-17|language=Inggeris}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=b0Wrsu0LHtoC&pg=PA65|title=Fanning the Flames: Fans and Consumer Culture in Contemporary Japan|author=William W. Kelly|publisher=SUNY Press|date=2012-02-01|isbn=978-0-7-914-60320|language=Inggeris}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=X4uk9vgoyDcC|title=Idols and Celebrity in Japanese Media Culture|author1=Patrick W. Galbraith|author2=Jason G. Karlin|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|date=2012-08-31|isbn=978-0-2-302-98309}}</ref><ref name="ruembjapan">{{cite web|url=http://www.ru.emb-japan.go.jp/ABOUT/CULTURE_ABOUT/pop.html|title=О Японии: Культура - Музыка - Популярная музыка|publisher=Embassy of Japan in Russia|accessdate=2014-05-05|language=Rusia}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=LrWAoxzNzRMC&pg=PA202|title=Historical Dictionary of Postwar Japan|author=William D. Hoover|publisher=Scarecrow Press|date=2011-03-18|isbn=978-0-8-108-54604|page=202|isbn=978-0-8-108-54604|language=Inggeris}}</ref><ref name="japantimes20110814">{{cite web|url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20090825i1.html|title=Pop 'idol' phenomenon fades into dispersion|publisher=The Japan Times Online|accessdate=2014-05-05|language=Inggeris|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/60uzs5dix|archivedate=2011-08-14}}</ref><ref name="kinokopress.com" />
