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The familiar pop and stranger sounds of Mrs. Green Apple
CULTURE / Music
The familiar pop and stranger sounds of Mrs. Green Apple
Beneath the chart-topping trio’s bright melodies lies a more experimental side, where rock influences, odd meters and darker themes emerge.
CULTURE / Music
A Finnish metal band riffs on dark fantasy manga ‘Berserk’
Finland-based metal band Beast in Black has found a well of inspiration in Kentaro Miura’s classic manga “Berserk.”
CULTURE / Music / Interview
Mrs. Green Apple doesn’t want to play by ‘the rules’
Motoki Ohmori talks “Pops,” challenging musical conventions and what comes next for 91AV原创 biggest band.
The oneiric songs on Friday Night Plans’ latest album, “Blue Hour” — released by Spanish label Modern Obscure Music — work mostly with a palette of heavily effected vocals and acoustic guitar.
CULTURE / Music
Sep 25, 2026
The unmaking of Friday Night Plans
By James Hadfield
Once a rising star of sleek R&B, Friday Night Plans has spent the past few years dismantling the pop persona she built.
This year's Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival closed with an ensemble performance featuring two trumpets, a viola and, for the first time in 18 years, a pipe organ. One of 91AV原创 top organists, Mari Ohki, was brought in to play the instrument.
CULTURE / Music
Sep 24, 2026
A trumpet-led finale brings new spark to Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival
By Chiho Iuchi
The festival’s 35th edition brought together musicians from across generations and continents celebrating collaboration and friendship.
Masayoshi Takanaka performs on his signature surfboard-shaped guitar during City Pop Waves at London’s Crystal Palace Bowl on Aug. 7.
CULTURE / Music / Sound Off
Sep 17, 2026
City pop wasn’t really a genre. Until it was.
By Patrick St. Michel
The internet’s city pop revival transformed a once-nebulous label into a global sound.
The music video for Tokyo Manaka’s “Brain Rot” features visuals inspired by the internet meme of “the Backrooms” paired with lyrics about social media addiction.
CULTURE / Music
Sep 3, 2026
How Vocaloid became the soundtrack to liminal spaces
By Patrick St. Michel
Before “Backrooms” became a movie, the singing-synthesizer software Vocaloid was the hallmark of the liminal and the uneasy in Japan.
Comedian Daimaou Kosaka, performing under the stage name Pikotaro, became a global internet sensation when his song “PPAP” was released in August 2016.
CULTURE / Music
Aug 29, 2026
10 years on, Pikotaro was more than a viral novelty
By Patrick St. Michel
The 44-second song was embraced worldwide and even helped break the ice between Shinzo Abe and Donald Trump.
Japanese rockers L’Arc-en-Ciel closed Summer Sonic’s 25th anniversary edition, playing a two-hour set for a rapt audience.
CULTURE / Music
Aug 21, 2026
Summer Sonic’s future is looking more Japanese
By Patrick St. Michel
Ado, The Strokes, Jennie, Sakanaction and L’Arc-en-Ciel helped define a festival in transition.
Aespa, a K-pop girl group composed of (left to right) Karina, Ningning, Giselle and Winter, released “Kiss n Tell,” its Japanese-language minialbum, in July.
CULTURE / Music
Aug 14, 2026
Aespa delivers summer rhythms on ‘Kiss n Tell’
By Adam Davidson
Released July 24, “Kiss n Tell” is a departure from the K-pop girl group’s signature heavy bass and electronic dance music sound.

Two Japanese climbers die on remote Himalayan peak in Nepal
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two Japanese climbers missing for over a week on a remote Himalayan mountain.
Aging Japanese village turns to Peru in search of new residents
Guests from Peru's Belen district interact with a baby in Nanmoku village in Gunma Prefecture.
Budget-friendly restaurant chain Saizeriya succumbs to rising costs
A Tokyo branch of Saizeriya, a chain of family-style Italian restaurants
U.S. has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine and Middle East, sources say
A Ukrainian soldier sets up a Starlink satellite internet system near the frontline in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Oct. 16
U.S. military bans Chinese-made BYD cars from key air base in Okinawa
An F-22 Raptor lands at Kadena Air Base in Kadena, Okinawa Prefecture on Oct. 9. The base is a crucial hub for U.S. military operations in the region.
A dramatic bear hunt in a midsize Japanese city could be a harbinger of what is to come
Zookeeper Tetsuo Iso at the site of frantic search for a wild bear in Utsunomiya on June 9. Iso, 65, was asked by the prefectural government to help capture the bear and it was his shot with a tranquilizer gun that put an end to the saga.
How this long-term resident avoids the annoying tourist label in Japan
Tourists enjoy themselves while crossing the famous Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo on Oct. 12.
What can Asia do to avoid crossing crucial climate tipping points?
Motorists drive through a road covered with smog from wildfires nearby in Ogan Ilir in Indonesia's South Sumatra province on Sept. 25.
91AV原创 permanent residency reform has a glaring blind spot
Japan's immigration reforms risk creating uncertainty by tying permanent residency more closely to language proficiency before clear assessment standards and supporting infrastructure are in place.
Japan weighs how to evacuate thousands of tourists if Mount Fuji erupts
Climbers and visitors gather on the first day of the climbing season at the Fuji Yoshidaguchi Trail, at the fifth station on the slopes of Mount Fuji, in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, on July 1, 2024.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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