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2025.5.24
POP YOURS Set for May in Makuhari; First Round of Performers Revealed on YouTube
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ONE OK ROCK’s New Track “Puppets Can’t Control You” Chosen as Theme for “Mikami Sensei”
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2025.1.25
Kafu’s Alternate Persona Kaika to Hold First Livestream Concert on YouTube
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2025.3.9
Kaho Nakamura and Yuta Orisaka Announce March Show at Misono Universe in Osaka
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2025.5.31
FUJI & SUN ’25’ Announces First Lineup: Naotaro Moriyama, Satoko Shibata, Yuta Orisaka and More
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2025.5.3
VIVA LA ROCK 2025: Third Lineup Revealed, Featuring SKY-HI, Creepy Nuts, Tele, and WurtS
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2025.1.17
Kenshi Yonezu Reveals Original Cover Jacket for Gundam’s Latest Theme Song “Plazma”
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2025.2.7
Helsinki Lambda Club Announces First Asia Tour, with Stops in Thailand and Taiwan in February
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2025.11.2
Pixies Returns to Tokyo and Osaka After Three-Year Hiatus
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2025.9.3
ano’s Debut Nippon Budokan Performance Set for September
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2025.5.17
S.A.R. Announces Major Label Debut with IRORI Records
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2025.2.15
ap bank fes ’25 Adds B’z , Alongside Bank Band Featuring Takeshi Kobayashi and Kazutoshi Sakurai
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2025.11.1
Rikon Densetsu Announces Nationwide Solo Live Tour for November
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BMSG and CHANMINA Create 7-Member Group HANA from No No Girls Audition
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P-VINE Launches New App “VINYLVERSE” and Innovative “PHYGITAL VINYL” Record
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2025.3.12
KREVA Celebrates 20th Solo Anniversary with Nationwide Tour Across 19 Cities
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2025.8.4
the cabs Announces Reunion, Set to Launch Solo Tour in August Across Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka
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Ghost and the Shell: A Bold Tokyo Exhibition That Dares to Dig Deeper
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Taking Taiwan Indie Global: Emerge Music’s Nuno on Asia’s Music Alliance
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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
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EVENTS
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2026.6.26
TAKANAWA GATEWAY CITY and Sónar Reveal Full Lineup for New Music and Art Festival
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2026.6.10
Major Picasso Exhibition Curated by Paul Smith Arrives in Tokyo in June 2026
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2026.5.6
kanekoayano Announces 2026 World Tour Across Australia, Europe and Japan
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2026.5.5
Shintaro Sakamoto Announces Nationwide Yoo-hoo Tour for 2026
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2026.4.18
ULTRAMAN EXHIBITION Brings Six Decades of Heroes to Osaka, Fukuoka, and Yokohama in 2026
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2026.1.16
Step Inside “Squid Game”: Immersive Experience Opens in Shibuya Jan 2026
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YOASOBI and UT Reunite for First Collaboration in Five Years
Charli XCX’s the moment Announces Tokyo Pop Up Ahead of Japan Release
TAKANAWA GATEWAY CITY and Sónar Reveal Full Lineup for New Music and Art Festival
Zara Larsson Announces First Ever Japan Show: Ticket Details and Everything You Need to Know