Fuji Rock, rural festival, and more—here are six music festivals taking place across Japan from July to October 2026.

Yet she’s also an artist connecting and drawing from myriad Japanese musical scenes of the 2010s. While 4s4ki writes and creates the majority of her songs, she also has a circle of collaborators ...

Japanese city pop, this retro-futuristic musical genre born in the late 1970s, continues to fascinate music lovers and curious listeners far beyond Japan. Characterized by its optimistic sounds ...

How Japanese ingenuity transformed Western music from within. Tina Weymouth and David Byrne of Talking Heads, performing in front of a Roland Jazz Chorus amplifier in 1980.Credit...Gie Knaeps/Getty ...