The year-end music festival will take place over two nights at the Japan National Stadium in Tokyo this weekend.

Hitomitoi dropped her new album Telepa Telepa via Billboard Japan Records on Mar. 26. The latest release by the Japanese singer-songwriter is her first album of original works since July 2017. The ...

The Japanese entertainment industry has become increasingly reliant on China in recent years. China is the world’s ...

No exploration of Japanese music would be complete without a dive into the world of J-Pop. Short for Japanese popular music, J-Pop is hard to define. It encompasses a wide breadth of genres and ...

'2025 MUSIC BANK global festival in Japan' was held at Japan's National Stadium in Tokyo on the 13th and 14th. As the first K ...

From kawaii metal to electronic dance pop, Japan's music scene has something for everyone! Join us as we explore the most exciting acts in J-Pop that deserve a spot on your playlist. From legendary ...

Noriko Sekiguchi, better known as Poison Girl Friend, is behind some of the most lustrous downtempo, trip-hop, and late-night pop music in post–economic bubble Japan. The Yokohama-born artist was ...

In 2025, life imitates digital art. When a cohort of vintage Japanese pop songs went viral on YouTube throughout the 2010s, city pop and J-pop went from an absolutely underground interest of a select ...

As Sino-Japanese tensions escalate, the repercussions continue with the cancellation of events in China by Korean groups that ...

Two of Le Sserafim's five members — Sakura and Kazuha — are Japanese, and strained bilateral relations between the two ...

A 2022 social media post by Ningning, the Chinese member of K-pop group Aespa, has become an unexpected cultural flashpoint amid rising diplomatic tensions between China and Japan. The post on the ...