This is the official music video that's been released to welcome Pope Francis to Japan this weekend. It's called "Protect All Life - The Signs of the Times." It combines singing, dancing and hand ...

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 ...

In the late 1990s, before algorithms defined taste, before platforms flattened culture into recommended rows of thumbnails, music discovery still relied on randomness. Napster was messy, mislabeled, ...

As Tokyo prepares to host the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games the country not only has an adorable set of superhero mascots, there’s also a catchy song. “Paprika,” written by J-Pop star Kenshi ...

The inaugural MUSIC AWARDS JAPAN ceremony, the largest music awards in the country, is set to take place in May in Kyoto. Embodying the theme of “Connecting the world, illuminating the future of music ...

Growing up, family parties would wind down around our favorite special occasion appliance. My father clumsily ran cables from the karaoke machine into our television, transforming the living room into ...

Additionally, "IRIS OUT" reached No. 5 on the U.S. Billboard Global 200 chart dated Oct. 4 — the highest position ever for a Japanese-language song. By Billboard Japan Kenshi Yonezu’s “IRIS OUT” logs ...