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2024.6.1
Budweiser and CreativeDrugStore to Host Collaboration Event
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2024.10.5
Ringo Sheena Announces New Album with Hikaru Utada, Perfume’s Nocchi, Daoko and More
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2024.10.27
ZAZEN BOYS Announce Debut Nippon Budokan Show Estimated Over Three Hour Set
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2024.7.15
Iwate’s KESEN ROCK Festival Unveils Third Round Lineup: HAWAIIAN6, Tokyo Tanaka from MAN WITH A MISSION, and More
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Ginger Root Announces 3rd Album for September, with Lead Single & MV Premiere
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2024.8.12
EPISTROPH Presents Debut Collaboration: WONK × cero for August
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2024.8.21
UK.PROJECT’s Summer Event Adds Helsinki Lambda Club, POLYSICS, and the telephones
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2024.6.23
Black Boboi’s Label BINDIVIDUAL Releases Artists Compilation EP
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2024.7.8
JJJ Announces First Solo Tour in July
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2024.5.25
SPARTA LOCALS, Carnation, and SACOYANS Join Yanushi’s Tour
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Ako（a子） Drops “GENE” Album with Unveiled Artwork, Includes “SXSW” Footage
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2024.6.29
KOTARO NUKAGA (Tennozu) Relocates to One of Japan’s Largest Spaces, Hosting Rhizomatiks’ Solo Exhibition
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Lady Gaga’s “GAGA CHROMATICA BALL” Arrives on U-NEXT: Her Self-Directed Concert Film
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‘Desert of Namibia’ Captivates Cannes Audience: Yoko Yamanaka and Yuumi Kawai Express Gratitude
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2024.6.14
Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine to Host New Art Book Fair in June with Over 100 Exhibitors Globally
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Official Report Released for ‘POP YOURS 2024’ Featuring Headliners LEX and Tohji
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2024.7.26
Two Canadian Circus Companies to Perform in Japan for “Setagaya Art Farm 2024”
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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”
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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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2026.6.4
Daniel Caesar Announces One Night Tokyo Show This June
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2026.6.10
Major Picasso Exhibition Curated by Paul Smith Arrives in Tokyo in June 2026
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2026.6.3
Charli XCX’s the moment Announces Tokyo Pop Up Ahead of Japan Release
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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
OGRE YOU ASSHOLE Bring “DELAY 2026” Back With kanekoayano and deca joins
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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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2026.4.17
Japanese Comedian Naomi Watanabe Sets 18 Date “FROM TOKYO” Tour Across North America
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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
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