Japan's Gen Hoshino Shares Self-Recorded Quarantine Love Song: Watch Video

J-pop band Mrs. GREEN APPLE recently celebrated its fifth anniversary with fans in a very 2020 way: They created a special band-themed island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the popular Nintendo Switch game keeping players around the world busy during this period of social distancing.

While many have been struggling to get used to the new normal of face masks, it turns out Brad Pitt, 56, was months ahead in his thinking! “I see someone in a face mask back there,” the Oscar winner pointed out while speaking at a Sept. 2019 press conference for film Ad Astra in Tokyo, Japan. “When I first came here and I saw all the people in the faces masks at the airport, I thought, ‘That’s a bit paranoid — why are they so paranoid?'” he went on.

Japanese star Haruma Miura is set to drop his second single, "Night Diver," on Aug. 26.

While tons of celebrities are speaking out about face masks right now during the pandemic, Brad Pitt actually was talking about the benefits of face masks last year!

Haruma Miura is set to drop his second single, "Night Diver," on Aug.

Meanwhile, "Kousui" is enjoying the effects of media exposure, ruling video this week by adding a whopping 10 million views to its weekly total, jumping to 17,489,687 views from last week's 7,224,834.The ballad was also nonexistent on karaoke platforms before the shutdown but has been added starting this week, and considering that it took off on TikTok powered by users' covers, it's expected to soar in the karaoke metric in the coming weeks as well.The first No.

Rebecca Davis editorTencent Music Entertainment Group (TME) has established a strategic partnership with Japan’s CoMix Wave Films Inc., the animation studio and distribution firm best known for works by helmer Makoto Shinkai.The new partnership will see the original soundtracks from 17 popular Japanese animated films put up on TME’s music platforms: QQ Music, Kugou Music, Kuwo Music and KTV app WeSing.Two of Shinkai’s films have been hits in China in recent years.

Gospellers celebrating 25 years in music and the boy band DISH//, whose latest version of "Neko" written by hitmaker Aimyon is taking off, mainly on social media.

This summer , the shy 22-year-old from Japan, became the highest-paid female athlete of all time— bringing in a cool $37.4 million in endorsement deals and prize money (and outpacing Serena Williams, formerly the highest-paid female athlete ever). Athletes with larger than life endorsement deals tend to have larger than life egos.

It goes without saying that the ARMY is looking forward to getting their hands on Vogue Japan's upcoming issue featuring BTS. The seven-member Korean band - comprising of RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook - dressed to kill in the cover picture.

LOVE FADERS, is the No. 1 album of the week, and the release of his past catalog on major streaming services on the same day as these new records appears to have boosted the sales of both.Aimyon's "Hadaka no kokoro" jumps 10-4 this week, selling 10,420 copies in its first week, a personal best for all of her past singles to date.

What kind of movies will audiences most want to see as the world emerges from the novel coronavirus pandemic? If thrillers and exotic escape are your buyer's bet — a reasonable guess after populations have spent months cooped up, totally unable to travel — then the Argentinian samurai revenge thriller Dogman could be a bankable project to board early.

J-pop hitmaker Aimyon shared the new music video for her latest single, "Hadaka no kokoro" ("Naked Heart").

Aimyon shared the new music video for her latest single, "Hadaka no kokoro" ("Naked Heart").The video for the ballad about unrequited love and loneliness consists of a single long take of the 25-year-old artist singing in a shower room.Fully clothed, she starts off dry under a single ray of light -- "How much longer do I intend to stay alone like this?" she sings.

A third song called "Usotsuki" by J-pop duo Yorushika will be featured as the ending theme in the upcoming Netflix movie A Whisker Away (Japanese title: Nakitai watashi wa neko wo kaburu), following "Hana ni bourei" and "Yakou."

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe notion that possessing a firearm, for most people in a civilized society, is a rare and fascinating thing is the ideological underpinning of Japanese thriller “The Gun 2020.”The pitch may have its limits in the U.S., but in the hands of director Masaharu Take (“100 Yen Love” “Netflix’ “The Naked Director”) the story flows from a student’s accidental discovery of a handgun, right when she needs it, through to the slaying of a neighbor, and to a police chase.