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'Manga-songwriter' mixes ukulele and illustrations...
Utsubo Honmachi belts out her original song "Yakkoman" as she presents a picture card show in Osaka's Higashinari Ward. Her stage name came from the Utsubo-Honmachi district in Osaka where a company she had worked for was based. (Mihoko Takizawa)
OSAKA--When the company where she had worked for 14 years went belly up, Utsubo Honmachi, a shy person with a self-deprecating sense of humor, decided to start a new career as...
SRO Saitama concert underscores rising popularity...
Singers make a grand entrance in a lift while enthusiastic fans wave their glow sticks. (Tetsuo Iwamoto)
For two days in late August, the scene at the packed Saitama Super Arena was of glowing multicolored lights illuminating the venue as pop songs filled the air to the delight...
Kim Jong Un's wife shined before marriage as a...
In a file photo distributed by the Korea News Agency, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Ri Sol Ju applaud a performance by the Moranbong band in Pyongyang. (AP)
When the Unhasu Orchestra held performances in Pyongyang to celebrate the new year in January and February 2011, an unknown female singer appeared both times on stage in what...
Choir preserves the children's songs of traditional ...
Atsuko Arai, at center, poses with her children’s choir. They are tossing bean bags as they perform a traditional song. (Nanako Ito)
NARA--For 20 years, Atsuko Arai has been traveling around the countryside of Nara Prefecture rescuing traditional children’s songs.
Nico Nico Douga users get chance to see...
Participants dance together with the moves explained by two users, at left, of a dance category on Nico Nico Douga. (Shigeyori Miyamoto)
In the world of video-sharing, the website Nico Nico Douga might seem to attract introverted geeks who prefer to stay glued to their computer monitors at home rather than...
ANIME NEWS: Girl group's song picked as 'Bleach'...
Scandal (c) Epic Records Japan Inc.
A single from the all-girl pop quartet Scandal has been chosen as the opening theme tune for the latest series of the popular anime "Bleach," according to the band's website.
VOX POPULI, VOX DEI: Songs that cheers us up a...
Yu Aku (1937-2007) was 24 when he turned yellow and fell sick in 1961. His liver was damaged from overwork and malnutrition. Aku, who eventually made his name as a great...
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