Japan wants to export J-pop music to the world. Go inside the strategy to broaden Japanese artist' appeal in the U.S. and other foreign markets.

W hen video-blogger Martina Sazunic moved from Seoul to Tokyo in 2016, she was shocked to learn that — unlike in South Korea — using music by some of Japan’s biggest pop stars on her YouTube ...

Michelle Zauner returned with the latest Japanese Breakfast album, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women). Since then, the ...

Japanese trio Number_i is outright earnest about the way they love making music.

The inaugural MUSIC AWARDS JAPAN ceremony, the largest music awards in the country, is set to take place in May in Kyoto. Embodying the theme of "Connecting the world, illuminating the future of ...

From record stores to jazz cafes to karaoke, here are the best ways to keep up with everything this music-infused city has to ...

The Seattle company has put out compilations of Japanese music and a reissue of Hiroshi Yoshimura's Green, which has 2.3 million views. The label's Japanese ambient collection Kankyō Ongaku ...

In 1956, he met Ono, another young Japanese artist living in New York. They were almost the same age, born two weeks apart. She too had classical music training and once harbored hopes of writing ...

One or Eight is backed by Japanese entertainment company Avex in partnership with Brandon Silverstein’s S10. “At Avex, we embrace challenges and respect the U.S. music culture,” shared ...

JOSO, Japan — The three music teachers — armed with a violin, a guitar and a drum — are ready for class. But the elementary school students jump around the room, screaming and laughing ...

FX’s acclaimed miniseries “Shōgun,” now nearing its halfway point, sports a score quite unlike Maurice Jarre’s music for the 1980 original adaptation. While utilizing authentic Japanese ...