It is not just pop culture that is facing a reckoning. Last year a female prosecutor in Osaka, in west of Japan, accused a former chief prosecutor of rape. (At first he admitted to it, but now says he ...

Boy band The Boyz added an additional date to the Japanese leg of its fan concerts, "The B Land,” its agency One Hundred ...

After they were told to stay inside during a five-show run in Japan in 1966, The Beatles turned their hand to creating a work ...

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A lot has happened since we named Japanese Breakfast’s Jubilee our best album of 2021. Whether those three and a half years ...

This year marks the 20th major debut anniversary for the acclaimed Japanese rock band RADWIMPS since their major debut with the single “25kome No Senshokutai” in 2005. To kick off the special year, ...

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The scandal centers on Masahiro Nakai, a former leader of Japan's once-hugely popular boy band SMAP, and his costly settlement with a woman over the alleged sex assault at a 2023 dinner party that ...

The Japanese network Fuji Television and its parent company say its president and chairperson have resigned over a widening ...

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Major TV networks have distanced themselves from one of Japan's biggest 1990s boy band stars after media reports said he paid a woman a large settlement related to alleged sexual misconduct.