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New event “Seikaku” by Umeda Club Quattro, featuring two groups, Sundae May Club & Neko Sen

Special exhibition, “Indian Miniature Paintings,” featuring 120 works from a private collection.

MPLUSPLUS to exhibit “Embodiment++” at CCBT featuring a gigantic robotic arm performance

New York-based hyperpop artist gabby start’s Japan debut with Peterparker69 and PAS TASTA

”Cross Review” the famous review section of “Music Magazine” is now available on the web.

FLAG 2023 unveiled the full lineup including Age Factory, No Buses and New York’s Harry Teardrop and more

brkfstblend, a new band featuring Michael Kaneko, Keity (ex-LUCKY TAPES), and Tetsuji Kasuya (ex-Yogee New Waves), releases first music

Hakushi Hasegawa to join Kassa Overall’s Tokyo show on October 19

WACK x NiEW co-host TAMATAMA FESTIVAL 2023, including “exPoP!!!!!” and all the WACK’s groups acts

New generation R&B Band HALLEY unveils the details for the upcoming EP “Daze” and the teaser Video

New Karuizawa’s EPOCHS acts announced including Wednesday Campanella, yonawo, Haruy and Sound’s Deli

Trailer for Christian Mungiu’s film “The New European Century” released in Japan in October.

Kobe Jazz Centennial” commemorating the 100th anniversary of Kobe Jazz to be held free of charge in October, featuring Takuya Kuroda, Akihiro Yoshimoto, and the Kobe Centennial Jazz Orchestra

A film, “Mizuirazu no Hoshi” which depicts the reunion of a woman and a man in the depths of despair after six years in a dialogue of mind and body, opens in theaters on November 24,.

Japan’s most prominent vinyl manufacturer Toyo Kasei launches two music labels

Chiang Mai-based indie-pop band YONLAPA releases album “LINGERING GLOAMING” and tours Asia

A Woman, a Man, and a Man. New three-person play with a double cast, Amayadori’s stage production of “Kawari no Otoko no Sono Kawari”
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