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LE SSERAFIM Unveils Gen Hoshino-Produced Track for Netflix Anime My Melody & Kuromi
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2025.10.4
Jacob Bro and The Vernon Spring Join EACH STORY Festival in Nagano’s Nobeyama Highlands
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2025.8.16
m-flo to Curate Midnight Sonic at Summer Sonic Late-Night Show
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maya ongaku’s Seattle “KEXP” Studio Live Now on YouTube
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Fujii Kaze Announces New Album Prema — First in Three Years, Out This September
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2025.7.11
Ai Yazawa’s NANA to Celebrate 20th Anniversary with First-Ever Digital Re-Release
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2025.10.18
POP YOURS OSAKA Reveals Initial Lineup Featuring Awich, Tohji, LEX, STUTS, and Red Eye
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2025.7.5
valknee Adds REIRIE, who28, and More to Crash Summer 2 Lineup
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2025.7.29
Yukkyun Announces KYUN DIVA FESTIVAL with First Wave of Artists
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2026.1.20
Men I Trust Announces 2026 Japan Tour with Mei Simones
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2025.7.16
KID FRESINO Announces Three-City Band Tour “Ins And Outs”
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betcover!! Drops New Album Yūki, Recorded and Mastered by Jim O’Rourke
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2026.3.5
STUTS to Hit Fukuoka, Nagoya, Osaka, and Tokyo on 2026 Tour
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2026.3.6
Linklater and Ethan Hawke Reunite in “Blue Moon,” Opening in Japan This March
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2026.3.7
Sonoko Inoue Announces First Overseas Shows in Taiwan and Korea
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2026.2.11
Tate Britain Brings 1990s UK Art Retrospective to Tokyo
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2026.2.7
Vaundy Announces Major Dome Tour, Breaks Record as Youngest Solo Artist to Headline
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2026.2.7
Claude Monet Exhibition ‘A Question to Landscapes’ to Open in Japan in 2026,
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2026.2.6
Tokyo Live Nights Spotlight Helsinki Lambda Club, Cody・Lee, TENDRE, and Strange Reitaro
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2026.1.30
Ghost in the Shell Celebrates 30 Years With Major Tokyo Exhibition
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2026.1.24
Pioneering Japanese idol Kyōko Koizumi to Embark on 2026 Nationwide Hall Tour KK60
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2026.1.16
“Look Back” Anime Exhibit Explores the Making from Manga to Film
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Vermeer’s ”Girl with a Pearl Earring” Comes to Osaka for a Rare Limited Time Exhibition
Step Inside “Squid Game”: Immersive Experience Opens in Shibuya Jan 2026
LiSA Marks Her 15th Anniversary With a New Album and Major 2026 Asia Tour
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