In November 1979, Japanese singer Miki Matsubara, then 19 years old, released her debut single “Mayonaka no Door – Stay With Me” — a song that came to define the city pop genre in Japan. Now, more ...

Billboard Japan has unveiled its 2025 year-end charts, tracking the period from Nov. 25, 2024, to Nov. 23, 2025.

It’s early December, which means one thing – it’s time for everyone’s respective music streaming platforms to expose their listening habits for the past year! Spotify, which gets annual buzz for its ...

“Things are easy when you’re big in Japan,” sang German group Alphaville in 1984. Ten years later, Dinosaur Jr would release the song “Over Your Shoulder” as the closing track on their album Without a ...

Korean actor Song Kang marks his official return to the entertainment industry with a sold-out fan-meeting tour in Japan, ...

In 1992, George Harrison released Live in Japan, a selection of live songs he performed over his 1991 12-show tour with Eric Clapton. The former Beatle was initially reluctant to go on the road, but ...

Japanese folk songs evolved in the same way as English language ones even though they are sung in different tones and scales. Patrick Savage at Keio University in Japan and his colleagues analysed the ...