Music
The agency for popular Japanese singer, musician, and actor Gackt announced on Wednesday that he would immediately be suspending all activities and going on an…
To celebrate City Pop, the loose but genre-crossing brand of Japanese pop music that grew popular across the globe in the 1970’s-1980’s, Sony Music’s analog…
Festivals are an important part of culture here in Japan. There are celebration days held for almost anything you can think of, and, as they’re…
Last night (1 June 2021) half-wolf half-man rock band, MAN WITH A MISSION, premiered their music video for their new song ‘INTO THE DEEP’ on…
The internet is fantastic for content discovery. Especially when it comes to music. Although record sales are a thing of the past, the plethora of…
With a career that spans 4 decades now under his belt, grammy-award winning guitarist, Tak Matsumoto is celebrating with the release of two books detailing…
Towa Tei, the record producer and DJ best known for his work with the band Deee-lite, has released a new album to mark his 30th…
Just earlier this month, it was announced that the final film in iconic anime Neong Genesis Evangelion’s Rebuild of Evangelion series, Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon…
Def Tech is a Japanese band that had its debut in 2005. The band initially started in 2000, and their popularity grew after releasing the…
It is once again the Christmas season, and I don’t know about you, but this is one of my favorite times of the year. Christmas…
He’s cute, he’s smart and he’s incredibly fast. But not only that, Sonic the Hedgehog is also stepping into the musical world with this new…
We are living in a technologically advanced era; with VR experiences, artificial intelligence, facial recognition and practically the whole world just a click of a…
When trains depart from platforms at stations across Japan, they are accompanied by a simple melody unique to the station and/or trainline. Designed to invoke…
Although Japan is largely considered homogeneous, minority groups do exist. Twenty-five thousand residents are considered Ainu, an East Asian ethnic group indigenous to the northern…
For many fans, Shinichiro Watanabe’s classic series Cowboy Bebop was a formative anime experience. To this day, however, it seems that even more than the…