The details and entries for all 62 categories in the inaugural Music Awards Japan, set for May 21 and 22 in Kyoto, have been announced. Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) has been named the Symbol of Music ...

In February of 1942 after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government issued an executive order to incarcerate people of Japanese descent.... Japanese American musicians across generations draw ...

As reported earlier, MUSIC AWARDS JAPAN is a brand-new award established by the five major organizations in the Japanese music industry — Recording Industry Association of Japan, Japan Association of ...

The Consulate General of Japan in Kolkata recently hosted four Japanese musicians and treated the audience of the city to traditional music at the Calcutta School of Music and Netaji Bhawan. We caught ...

Japan's love affair with the genre began with brothers Yasushi and Hisashi Ozaki, who formed the country's first bluegrass duo in 1957. Today,... Meet The Musicians Behind Japan's Vibrant Bluegrass ...

China Scraps Concerts With Japanese Musicians as Diplomatic Tensions Mount (In paragraph 2, corrects Petersen-Clausen's nationality to German not Norwegian) By Laurie Chen and Eduardo Baptista BEIJING ...

In May 2025 Japan welcomed an estimated 3.693 million visitors, marking a surge in global fascination with the country—up 125% (more than double!) compared to a decade ago. Many come for the exquisite ...

TOKYO - Four of Japan’s biggest rock stars formed a new band, The Last Rockstars, in a race against time to preserve the spirit of rock music. "We’ve come together to start this challenge for the ...

Korean and Japanese musicians and choir members perform Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, “Ode to Joy” (1842), at a concert to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic ties, which ...

Japanese jazz musician Yoshio Suzuki and his band were in the midst of a sound check for some long-awaited performances in Beijing when the venue was visited by plain-clothes police on Thursday ...

A woman points to an advertisement poster for a cancelled concert by Japanese musician Yoshio Suzuki before the organisers' interview with Reuters in Beijing, China, November 21, 2025. REUTERS/Maxim ...

BEIJING: Japanese jazz musician Yoshio Suzuki and his band were in the midst of a sound check for some long-awaited performances in Beijing when the venue was visited by plain-clothes police on ...