KID PHENOMENON released I’m still breathing on 12 October 2026, and the CD single followed in Japan on 21 October. The song ...

HANABIE.'s Bari Bari Buddy is the ending theme for Reincarnated as a Sword season 2. Release dates, the anime and new album ...

Salasa's Sobaniite (Soba ni Ite) is out now. The Shonan singer's autumn R&B song, her Live Bluesy EP, vinyl and Japan tour ...

How director Mai Burns built Rebellious Bodies around Kazuo Ohno's improvised butoh, and the artists bringing his school to ...

Born in 1950 in Fukuoka, Mitsuyo Uesugi pursued a dance career that brought her to Tokyo as it experienced an exploding radical arts scene, in the late 60s. There, she encountered butoh, an emerging ...

Hokusai’s Under the Wave off Kanagawa is hanging in Manchester until Sunday 15 November 2026, as the centrepiece of Beneath the Great Wave: Hokusai and Hiroshige at the Whitworth. Entry is free, and ...

Mia Kobayashi braced for polite silence when A Chorus Line toured Japan. On some nights the house went wild instead, and she has not forgotten it. In Japanese, kanawanai can mean a wish that will ...

Picture this: you’ve got an important task, maybe you have a test coming up, or a project that you need to work on. What exactly would be the perfect music to study to? The ambient nature of Lofi ...

A VTuber, short for virtual YouTuber, is a live streamer who performs as an animated character instead of appearing on camera. A real person sits behind it, talking and reacting in real time, while ...