Shin-ei’s gadget was a harbinger of the ways Japanese technology would help define the sound of Western music. Even as it would eventually influence world-conquering genres like K-pop ...

By Kate Guadagnino Illustrations by Ilya Milstein “J-pop” is an umbrella term encompassing a range of subgenres blending elements of Western and traditional Japanese music across various ...

Neo, Mizuki, Takeru, Reia, Souma, Ryota, Tsubasa, Yuga. Photo by OOZ On Tuesday, May 27, Atlantic Music Group and Avex Music Group came together to announce that they have partnered to release future ...

Over the decades, he built a pop music juggernaut, played a crucial role in shaping Japan’s idol industry ... abuse as far back as the 1960s (a 1965 magazine article refers to a court case ...

(Sub)titles with shards of English and pop-up info boxes with ... and Popeye contributor W David Marx. “Japanese readers love the prescriptive nature of magazines, and you’ll often see people ...