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Indie World presentation today (April 14), Konami announced Getsu Fūma Den: Undying Moon, reviving one of the publisher’s oldest game IPs.The 2D action game will be coming to Nintendo Switch in 2022. Shortly after the presentation, it was confirmed to be coming to early access on PC on May 13 via Steam.First released in 1987, the original Getsu Fūma Den was a 2D action-adventure title in the style of Castlevania but was only available on the Nintendo Famicom in Japan.

SEVENTEEN have dropped the first teaser for the music video of their upcoming Japanese single, ‘Not Alone’.The bright and upbeat trailer video showcases the boyband’s thirteen members on video calls with each other.

Japanese Breakfast has shared the second song from the group's forthcoming album Jubilee. "Posing In Bondage" is described by Michelle Zauner as being "a ballad about loneliness and longing." Check it out below.

In a somewhat improbable pairing, Chinese-owned video app TikTok has partnered with Japanese film studio Toho, the home of Godzilla and Kurosawa, to launch an online shortform video competition. The partners are calling the event the "TikTok Toho Film Festival 2021," although it appears much more like a marketing exercise designed to win TikTok Japanese users than anything like a traditional film festival.

Japanese Breakfast has shared a brand new song – watch the video for ‘Posing In Bondage’ below.The track is the second preview of Michelle Zauner’s upcoming album ‘Jubilee’, due out in June via Dead Oceans.The follow-up to 2017’s ‘Soft Sounds From Another Planet’ was first previewed last month with lead single ‘Be Sweet’ and now a second teaser has been shared.Of ‘Posing In Bondage’, which comes complete with a creepy video set in a supermarket and self-directed by Zauner, the singer said:

DJ, producer and artist LSDXOXO has shared that his upcoming EP, Dedicated 2 Disrespect, is set to drop on May 14th via XL. In addition to the announcement, he also shared the project's lead single, a techno-pop banger called "Sick Bitch." "I wanted to make a Dance Mania pop anthem with vocals that had the playfulness and vulgarity of Chicago ghetto house," LSDXOXO said of the track in a press release.

Stephen Fretwell has announced details of ‘Busy Guy’, his first new album in more than 13 years.Fretwell’s third record will arrive on July 16 via Speedy Wunderground, and comes after he previously previewed it with lead single ‘Oval’.Today (April 7) sees Fretwell debuting ‘Embankment’, which is the next song to arrive from the record.Opening up on the recording of the album, Fretwell explained how he headed into Soho’s Dean Street Studios with producer and Speedy Wunderground boss Dan Carey.“I

eBay hours before it was to conclude after company executives met with Japanese American groups who called the sale “hurtful, and a degrading reminder of the mass roundup and incarceration.”“It’s seems unethical and immoral to put this artwork up on eBay to the highest bidder," said Shirley Higuchi, author of “Setsuko’s Secret: Heart Mountain and the Legacy of the Japanese American Incarceration.” “When you sell artwork created during an oppressive time for money ...

Sufjan Stevens has announced a new five-part album called ‘Convocations’ – you can listen to the track ‘Meditation V’ below now.The US singer-songwriter, whose eighth album ‘The Ascension’ arrived last September, promised yesterday (April 5) that “new holistic music” would be arriving this week while sharing a new piece of artwork.It has now been confirmed that an instrumental record from Stevens will be released digitally on May 6 via Asthmatic Kitty.

Country music superstar Alan Jackson is back with new music.

EXCLUSIVE: Writer-director Mark Gill (England is Mine, The Voorman Problem) is set to bring the life of legendary Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase to the big screen with Ravens (The Many Deaths of Masahisa Fukase). Filming is set to begin in Japan in the spring of 2022.

Mark Schilling Japan CorrespondentHara Masato, a producer and executive who worked with Kurosawa Akira, Oshima Nagisa and other leading Japanese filmmakers in a seven-decade career, died on March 17 at age 89 of heart failure, distributor Asmik Ace announced Monday.Hara was the company’s first president, starting in 1998.

Rag‘n’Bone Man has announced that he has collaborated with Pink on his forthcoming new single, ‘Anywhere Away From Here’.The track will feature on the singer’s upcoming new album ‘Life By Misadventure’, which is now set for release on May 7 via Columbia.‘Anywhere Away From Here’ will serve as the next preview of the LP when it is released as a single on April 9.“This song is an honest reflection of wanting to disappear from uncomfortable situations – about the vulnerabilities that we all face,”

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefNetflix has revealed its involvement with an anime adaptation of hit Japanese manga “Record of Ragnarok.” The show, about an epic fight for the fate of humanity, will premiere in June this year, and join the streamer’s burgeoning slate of anime content.The company made the announcement at Tokyo’s AnimeJapan 2021 Expo, where it also provided local fans with cast news and updates on other shows.

Monster Hunter Rise releases worldwide on Nintendo Switch this Friday (March 26th), and one Japanese company has made the day an official holiday.As spotted by Twitter user Stealth, Masaki Hiyama, CEO of tech developer Mark-On Ltd., revealed that he received a high volume of requests from employees who wanted to take Friday off to play Monster Hunter Rise as soon as possible.This is amazing…… a Japanese Company is giving employees the day off for a new holiday "Monster Hunter Rise Launch Day"

personality traits and the specific colour that corresponds with your birthday. The chart, which was created in Japan, features a collection of 366 different shades, with each colour matching a day of the year, including the extra day added to February on leap years.

Capcom has announced a new Resident Evil showcase set for April.The Japanese game developer and publisher announced the showcase via its blog on Monday, March 22. A firm date for the showcase has yet to be announced.

Thom Yorke has remixed the solo acoustic version of ‘Creep’ to contribute to a high-profile Japanese fashion show.The 1992 Radiohead classic was reworked for Kiryū-born designer Jun Takahashi’s UNDERCOVER 2020-2021 autumn/winter collection ‘Creep Very’, which was showcased this week.Yorke has provided a variety of songs for fashion show soundtracks over the years.