INI's "Present" soars to No. 1. on this week's Billboard Japan Hot 100, on the chart dated Nov. 26, halting Kenshi Yonezu's ...

Mrs. GREEN APPLE dominates Billboard Japan’s mid-year domestic charts for 2025, rounding up the weeks from Nov. 25, 2024 through May 25, 2025. On the Japan Hot 100 song chart, the three-man band’s ...

Japan’s first female Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is a metalhead. She grew up listening to tracks from iconic bands like Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Iron Maiden, and Riot, and even played keyboard ...

The Last Rockstars are here. As revealed this week, X Japan bandleader Yoshiki has formed a new supergroup with three other major players from Japan's rock scene. Indeed, they are called The Last ...

A lifelong heavy metal enthusiast, 63-year-old Takaichi once played drums in a college band. As Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) rallies behind Sanae Takaichi to become the country's next ...

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 ...

The exhibition uses sheet music covers to reveal a radically changing society during the first half of the 20th century It’s still just April, so there will surely be exhibitions this year that sound ...

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 ...