
National Jan 22, 2021
'From now on, I will be living alongside cancer. But, I am hoping to make music for a little while longer,' Sakamoto said on his website.
'From now on, I will be living alongside cancer. But, I am hoping to make music for a little while longer,' Sakamoto said on his website.
LLLL: 'The perfect balance of conformity and rebellion'
What makes the perfect J-pop song? There is a formula, which means you have to be in the box before you can think outside of it.
Synthesized drum roll, please: Roland back on the bourse in Tokyo
Roland saw its shares open at ¥2,954 on the first day of trading on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, 4.7% below the IPO price of ¥3,100.
Cuushe: Music born from emotion
Dream pop musician Mayuko Hitotsuyanagi, aka Cuushe, on her upcoming album, “Waken,” and her musical inspiration.
Nahid Yoshinari: 'I love to involve the audience in the music'
An announcer and translator at NHK, Nahid Yoshinari is happy to share her Persian culture with people in Japan.
Japan sees musical instruments flying off shelves amid pandemic
Social distancing and staying at home has led people to take up playing things such as the guitar or the ukulele.
BTS fans have a new way to show their love: buying shares
In the music industry, fans are everything. But when it comes to K-pop, that adage holds more true than ever.
The musician was known for a series of improvised performances at scenic spots around the world.
Kyohei Tsutsumi, a veteran composer of popular Japanese songs that impacted the country's music scene in the 1970s and 1980s, has died of aspiration pneumonia, sources close to the matter said Monday. He was 80. Tsutsumi, whose real name was Eikichi Watanabe, died Wednesday at ...
Eddie Van Halen, virtuoso of the rock guitar, dies at 65
Van Halen's razzle-dazzle guitar-playing made him the most influential guitarist of his generation.
Former pop star Tatsuya Yamaguchi arrested for drunken driving
Tatsuya Yamaguchi, a former member of all-male pop idol group Tokio, has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving, it was learned Tuesday. Yamaguchi, 48, is suspected of driving a motorcycle under the influence of alcohol, investigative sources said. He was arrested in Tokyo's Nerima ...
Singer Noriyuki Makihara given suspended term for drug possession
In handing down the ruling, the Tokyo District Court said the possession was a "malign crime reflecting his lack of hesitation toward illegal drugs."