While Yoshiki has been based in Los Angeles since the late 1990s, Monday's concert is only his second performance in the Bay Area (he played Oakland's Fox Theater in 2010 when X Japan reunited for ...

Japanese rock star Yoshiki is set to create an international theme song to celebrate Hello Kitty’s 50th anniversary. Entertainment giant Sanrio tells The Hollywood Reporter that the musician’s ...

X Japan are Japan’s biggest ever rock band – but they remain a cult concern in the west. In 2015, Metal Hammer flew to New York for an audience with singer and mastermind Yoshiki as they ...

Yoshiki took his love of fashion and married it with Japanese tradition (and his parents’ vocation) with a rock-inspired kimono line, Yoshikimono, in 2011. The collection has had its pieces ...

Japanese musician Yoshiki packs Carnegie Hall for this stellar live concert performance. A classically trained pianist and drummer of the rock group X Japan, best-selling Japanese musician Yoshiki ...

In 2023, the multi-hyphenate musician Yoshiki made his directorial debut with the documentary Yoshiki: Under the Sky, and became the first Japanese artist to have his handprints immortalized in ...

Yoshiki, whose real name is Yoshiki Hayashi, still finds solace the same way he did then — in rock music. He has reformed X Japan, with its first studio album since 1996 dropping next year.

The Japanese musician and composer discusses the making of his global music concert film. By Brande Victorian Like many entertainers during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Japanese songwriter ...

SiriusXM’s next musician-hosted show will have a decidedly Eastern flavor. Yoshiki, co-founder of X Japan, a power metal band that’s hugely popular in its native country and is making a ...

In the early 1980s, with X Japan, Yoshiki and his bandmates pioneered international interest in what would soon be known as Japan’s Visual Kei fashion and music movement.

A Japanese musician has stunned crowds by performing a piano duet with what appeared to be a hologram of himself. The image of Yoshiki appeared on stage first at the concert in Austin, Texas ...

Japanese music icon Yoshiki will take the center stage to perform a live piano rendition of the national anthem before the game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Washington Nationals on April 16.