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2025.1.25
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2025.1.22
Shun Ishiwaka’s Answer to Remember Announces Special Guest for Billboard Performance
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2025.6.14
PIZZA OF DEATH’s SATANIC CARNIVAL ’25 Festival Set for Two-Day Run at Makuhari Messe
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2025.2.7
Showtime Seven: Perfume to Perform Theme Song and Make a Cameo as Themselves
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Hikaru Utada’s Live Photo Book NINE STORIES Set for March Release, Captured by Nine Renowned Photographers
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2025.1.18
Texas 3000 to Host Events in Tokyo and Osaka, Unveils Live Video of beabadoobee Playlist-Selected Song
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2025.1.31
NiEW’s “expop!!!!!” January Lineup: toddle, Suzuki Mikiko Zu, SleepInside, Veg to Perform
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2025.4.12
Awaji’s New Festival MAGICHOUR Unveils Second Lineup with GEZAN, Megashin, and Summer Eye
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2025.2.12
“Dancing SENTO” Silent DJ Event Returns to Asakusa’s Hinodeyu
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Yuki Chiba’s Budokan Show Pre-Sale Tickets Now Open, Director’s Cut of Matsuko Deluxe Collaboration Program Released
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2025.3.8
never young beach to Celebrate 10th Anniversary with Nationwide Tour in March
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2025.7.25
FUJI ROCK FESTIVAL Announces 2025 Dates: July 25–27
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2025.3.1
YOGEE NEW WAVES to Embark on Nationwide Solo Tour
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2025.4.12
Aimyon Expands “Dolphin Apartment” Tour to Six Cities, Featuring Taipei and Seoul
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KID FRESINO Stars in Sapporo Beer’s “Hakone Ekiden Original CM” and Writes New Track
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2025.2.6
“exPoP!!!!! Chuo Line Special” Free Event Unveils Five Performers in Ogikubo
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2025.2.8
BEAMS to Host All-Night “BE FES!!” with CHO CO PA CO CHO CO QUIN QUIN and kanekoayano
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2025.8.16
SUMMER SONIC 2025: Official Dates Confirmed Following 2024 Milestone
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Ghost and the Shell: A Bold Tokyo Exhibition That Dares to Dig Deeper
Mika Kosugi
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Taking Taiwan Indie Global: Emerge Music’s Nuno on Asia’s Music Alliance
Atsutake Kaneko
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Calling Out From Somewhere in the Fog: Shintaro Sakamoto’s “Yoo-hoo”
Ryohei Matsunaga
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Takuro Okada on the Making of konoma: Between Minimalism, Jazz, and Cross-Cultural Dialogue
Yuji Shibasaki
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The Japanese Band That Counts Fans, Not Streams: LOSTAGE Explained
Shoichi Yamamoto
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Laura day romance on “Nemuru”: A Two-Part Journey Through “Walls” and “Bridges”
Fumiaki Amano
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EVENTS
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2026.3.14
GEZAN Announces First Ever Nippon Budokan Show in Spring 2026
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2026.3.14
Ikimonogakari Announce First Festival with Noriyuki Makihara, Sukima Switch, and Mone Kamishiraishi
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2026.3.17
Ringo Sheena Returns to the Stage Nationwide Spring 2026
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2026.3.17
New Multi-Venue Event ”UNDERCITY” Takes Over Ebisu LIQUIDROOM Complex This March
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2026.3.17
Tokyo’s New Music Event UNDERCITY Reveals Second Lineup in Ebisu
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2026.3.19
Spotify Japan Reveals Early Noise 2026 Lineup, Live Event Also Confirmed
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2026.3.5
STUTS to Hit Fukuoka, Nagoya, Osaka, and Tokyo on 2026 Tour
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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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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
FUJI ROCK 2026 Announces 66 Artists Including Fujii Kaze and XG Plus Complete Ticket Breakdown