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 ...

In 1980 Mitsuyo Uesugi danced at The Place in London on Kazuo Ohno’s European tour. Ohno was one of the key founders of butoh. On Friday 13 November, now 76, Uesugi returns to The Place for the first ...

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 ...

As My Neighbour Totoro enters its final 12 weeks in London, a brand new set of behind the scenes images of the cast has been released, taken by Danny Kaan. The company on the forest set in an empty ...

The music of Naruto, Demon Slayer, One Piece, Attack on Titan and Studio Ghibli comes to Birmingham on Sunday 15 November 2026, performed by a full symphony orchestra at Symphony Hall under conductor ...

The international Japanese pop sensation LiSA took her first-ever Europe & UK tour on the road in September 2026. In celebration of the 15th anniversary of her solo debut this year, LiSA reached fans ...

Haruki Murakami ran a jazz bar in Tokyo called Peter Cat until 1981. This November the Barbican rebuilds it on stage for a single night, and both sittings sold out before the programme was a month old ...

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 ...

On Thursday 17 September, a cinema beside the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham showed a concert that had been performed in Los Angeles in July. The audience brought penlights, and plenty of ...