Tokyo Olympics Brings Upheaval to Japan’s Summer Events Schedule

King Gnu's Daiki Tsuneta displayed his classical roots this week, traveling to New York to play cello at the Masonic Hall NYC. The guitarist and leader of Japan's breakout mixture band contributed his musicianship to the N.HOOLYWOOD COMPILE 2020 fall collection fashion show on Tuesday (Feb. 4).

J-pop girl group STU48's fourth single, "Mubou na yume wa samerukoto ga nai" -- which loosely translates to "reckless dreams never end" -- sold 332,691 copies in its first week to debut at No. 1 on the latest Billboard Japan Hot 100, dated Jan.

The boss of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics says he is "seriously worried" that the coronavirus outbreak could disrupt the games.

Wild Gypsy fiddling and emotive Jewish and Greek music glide seamlessly into hot-blooded tango in a new show coming to Linlithgow.

J-pop rapper and singer SKY-HI shared the lyric video for his latest single, "Don't Worry Baby Be Happy," featuring Thai hitmaker Stamp.The video uses live footage from SKY-HI's Round A Ground 2019 concert from December, where the two stars premiered the song before a packed crowd."Don't Worry Baby Be Happy" is a stylish mid-tempo number contrasting SKY-HI's emphatic rapping skills with Stamp's mellow yet robust voice.

Two new Johnny's boy bands' debut singles dominated the top two positions on the latest Billboard Japan Hot 100, dated Jan. 20 to 26, with SixTONES' "Imitation Rain" coming out on top at No.

Japan's Wagakki Band will perform a one-night-only special show titled the "Premium Symphonic Night Vol.2" on Feb.

The Japanese box office leaped by 17% in 2019 to set a record $2.4 billion score, according to figures announced Tuesday by the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan, locally known as Eirin. The previous high was the $2.2 billion recorded in 2016.

The Japanese box office jumped more than 17 percent to a record $2.39 billion (261 billion yen) in 2019, with admissions up more than 15 percent to 194,910, the highest attendance since 1971.Despite a slowly shrinking population and the rise of streaming platforms, astrong lineup of films, rising wages for the young, low unemployment and a rise in leisure timedue to government work reforms all helped drive the record box office numbers.Hollywood's share rose slightly to 45.6 percent, its

Aly Raisman may've confirmed her retirement, but that doesn't mean she'll be absent from the 2020 Summer Olympics.

NBC is again turning to Snapchat as part of monetizing its Olympics media rights — coveting the app’s millions of millennials and Gen Z users.

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Netflix has acquired exclusive streaming rights to the full film catalog from beloved Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli for everywhere in the world outside North America and Japan.The landmark deal, unveiled Monday through French distribution partner Wild Bunch International, represents the first time that all 21 Ghibli films — including Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle, among others — will be made available via streaming on a worldwide