Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In November 1979, Japanese singer Miki Matsubara, then 19 years old, released her debut single “Mayonaka no Door – Stay With Me” — ...

We all have a favorite holiday song, and certainly no lack of choices. But in Japan, it seems, everyone has the same favorite holiday song. And this year, as Lucy Craft reports, it means more than ...

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 music ...

“Things are easy when you’re big in Japan,” sang German group Alphaville in 1984. Ten years later, Dinosaur Jr would release the song “Over Your Shoulder” as the closing track on their album Without a ...

Let's take a look at the 256 songs that are up for the Song of the Year category, as compared against Billboard Japan's all-genre Japan Hot 100. By Billboard Japan The inaugural MUSIC AWARDS JAPAN ...

It’s early December, which means one thing – it’s time for everyone’s respective music streaming platforms to expose their listening habits for the past year! Spotify, which gets annual buzz for its ...

I wish it was you who smiled saying the snow is pretty~.” A “national winter song” that goes viral in Japan every winter is ...

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 ...