Reporting from Tokyo — — Looking back, says the pop singer called Jero, the songs were a soundtrack to his childhood, the strange and sorrowful melodies enjoyed by his Japanese-born grandmother — ...

King Midas Sound’s Kiki Hitomi blends Jamaican reggae with Japanese enka on her genre-twisting debut solo album Karma No Kusari. Laurent Fintoni takes a closer look at the roots and influences behind ...

Japan Society today announced the New York debut of breakthrough singer JERO on June 9, where he will discuss his unlikely path to stardom and perform his celebrated take on the traditional Japanese ...

No exploration of Japanese music would be complete without a dive into the world of J-Pop. Short for Japanese popular music, J-Pop is hard to define. It encompasses a wide breadth of genres and ...