In the Staff Selections post for September, I said that I had more to say about Utada Hikaru’s comeback album “Fantôme.” Today is that day! My review of the...
Earlier, there were rumors of SMAP’s disbandment that shook the Japanese netizens, media, and even international. Now, Johnny’s & Associates Inc. has sent...
Shocking news emerged for young actor Mackenyu, son of the acting/martial arts legend Sonny Chiba. “Friday” found out that the 19-year old ‘Chihayafuru’ star...
Back in March, I interviewed Seiho for The Japan Times. Today, the full interview was published online (it will be published in print tomorrow). During this...
On Mother’s Day, New York City held its 10th annual Japan Day. Akiko Yano, who is currently celebrating her 40th anniversary, headlined the festival. I sat...
Two weeks ago, I went to 3 Japanese concerts in New York, 2 on Sunday night and 1 on Tuesday night. The first show was mitsume, the second show was Japan Nite...
Arama! Japan recently conducted an email interview with noted songwriter / producer Steven Lee. He’s an American that has worked with a plethora of acts in the...
Today statistics-tracking company Oricon Inc. published its complete end of the year report, which reveals all of the sales data that it collected for the year...
The Japan Times recently started its series of year end articles on the current music scene. Last week, Patrick St. Michel wrote about Namie Amuro’s dominance...
As some of you may know, I recently started writing for the English language Japanese newspaper The Japan Times. Through them, I was recently given the...