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2025.3.26
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2025.5.24
the telephones Announce 20th Anniversary Show with 2005 Yen Tickets
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2025.5.23
Mori, Michi, Ichiba 2025 Announces First Performers: OKAMOTO’S, Yuta Orisaka, NOT WONK, and More
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2025.5.17
TOKYO Sekai Announces First Solo Concert at Shibuya WWW X in May
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2025.5.31
Hibiya Music Festival Announces First Wave of Artists: Kenji Ozawa, imase, Kiyoshi Hikawa + KIINA, and More
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2025.5.24
POP YOURS Adds Benjazzy, eyden, and MIKADO to Lineup; Second Ticket Pre-Sale Begins
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Takashi Murakami and JP THE WAVY’s MNNK Bro. Release New Song in Honor of Louis Vuitton Collaboration
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2025.4.29
JAPAN JAM 2025 Adds 36 Artists Including imase, Mega Shinnosuke, Yurina Hirate, and FRUITS ZIPPER
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2025.5.22
DYGL Announces Japan Tour & Releases New Song with Live Video
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Shuta Hasunuma Drops Poetry Reading Piece “Heaven” Ahead of New EP Release
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2025.4.18
Rainbow Disco Club Unveils 18-Artist Lineup, Including Gilles Peterson and Kode9
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2025.7.3
Yuki Chiba’s New Song “Budokan” Released
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2025.5.3
Satoko Shibata and Kaneko Ayano to Co-Headline Band Set Show
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2025.6.8
YOASOBI Announces Wembley Arena Headline Show in London
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YAJICO GIRL Drops Live Tracks and Remixes Album “EUPHORIA DLX”
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2025.4.4
New Yokohama Festival CENTRAL Announces Lineup Including Awich, Creepy Nuts, and Rikon Densetsu
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2025.4.5
YOASOBI, FRUITS ZIPPER, and More to Perform at Yokohama’s New Festival CENTRAL
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2025.2.28
NiEW’s “expop!!!!!” February Lineup to Feature Geloomy, Guiba, Meg bonus, and Beijing’s Hi Link Channel
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Calling Out From Somewhere in the Fog: Shintaro Sakamoto’s “Yoo-hoo”
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Takuro Okada on the Making of konoma: Between Minimalism, Jazz, and Cross-Cultural Dialogue
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The Japanese Band That Counts Fans, Not Streams: LOSTAGE Explained
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2026.2.19
PinkPantheress Celebrates Japan Debut with Four Day Tokyo Pop Up
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2026.2.20
Cannes Winner “Sentimental Value” to Hit Japanese Theaters Joachim Trier’s Latest Film
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2026.2.21
Evangelion Marks 30 Years with Special Event at Yokohama Arena
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2026.2.23
Celebrate 30 Years of “Evangelion” with This One-of-a-Kind Kabuki Performance
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2026.2.24
Korean Artist Parannoul Joins New ”QUATTRO Alternative” Series for First-Ever Japan Show
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2026.2.18
Wet Leg Announce Japan Tour for February 2026 with Second Album in Tow
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2026.2.16
Mac DeMarco Announces Japan Tour for February 2026
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2026.2.16
Mac DeMarco Adds Extra Japan Tour Dates
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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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Vermeer’s ”Girl with a Pearl Earring” Comes to Osaka for a Rare Limited Time Exhibition
Thundercat Announces New Album ”Distracted” and Four-Date Japan Tour This May
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LiSA Marks Her 15th Anniversary With a New Album and Major 2026 Asia Tour