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 ...

Mei Semones bridges two cultures through her music, blending Japanese and English lyrics into a sound that’s entirely her own. “I’ve always been bilingual — since I was a baby — so it felt natural to ...

In November 1979, Japanese singer Miki Matsubara, then 19 years old, released her debut single “Mayonaka no Door – Stay With Me” — a song that came to define the city pop genre in Japan. Now, more ...

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 ...

Singer-songwriter Kenshi Yonezu’s 2022 “Kick Back” earned platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in September, becoming the first Japanese-language song with ...

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 ...