A new awards gala was held to spread Japan’s pop music to the rest of the world, but the struggling domestic industry may ...

Japanese singers and musicians will finally receive royalties when their works are played as background music in public ...

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 ...

MUSIC AWARDS JAPAN 2026, Japan's biggest international music awards show, has unveiled its nominees across 63 categories ahead of the June 13 ceremony.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Global-facing J-pop group f5ve (pronounced “fi-vee”) may be riding the new wave bringing Japanese music to the world, but the ...

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 ...

Tokyo-based rapper and Ambush CEO Verbal disrupted Japanese pop music and launched a global fashion brand and a new saké venture, establishing himself as a cultural curator. Multi-hyphenates rarely ...

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 ...

Japanese pop artist Nanao officially entered the Philippine music scene on Wednesday with the release of her debut local ...

At some point over the past decade, it became nearly impossible to log onto the internet without encountering city pop. Maybe ...