Risa Furusawa, Aika Sano, Kana Itakura, Ayano Masuda, Emiru Kawamoto, Miyu Umeda, Nagisa Manabe & Haruka Sakuraba spoke to .

J-pop singer-songwriter miwa spoke with Hirai for the latest installment of the WIM interview series. By Billboard Japan Billboard Japan’s Women in Music initiative launched in 2022 to celebrate ...

whose now-defunct agency Johnny & Associates managed many boy bands, including the one to which Nakai belonged. One of Japan's most popular comedians, 61-year-old Hitoshi Matsumoto, has also been ...

A lot has happened since we named Japanese Breakfast’s Jubilee our best album of 2021. Whether those three and a half years ...

Yet, the number of all-female rock bands seems to have been too far in between, but only in numbers, not in the quality of their music. The reasons are probably numerous, but Joan ...

Her band, Japanese Breakfast, will drop their new LP For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) on March 21 via Dead Oceans. To accompany the announcement, the indie pop band released the lead single ...

It is a New Year’s resolution of mine I hope to achieve throughout the rest of the year, and the creative media I enjoyed ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan on Wednesday said it will freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations’ women’s rights panel that called for an end to the country’s male-only imperial succession rule.

Public mea culpas are a corporate ritual in Japan. For Fuji TV, the resignations and public apologies of two bosses didn’t ...