The star of a mid-tier all-girl pop act quits the band for love and is sued by her management in Fukada's muted, murmured critique of Japanese celebrity culture. Happyfanfare is a hard-working ...

Atlantic Music Group and Avex Music Group jointly announced a new partnership with One Or Eight for the J-pop boy band’s future music releases. The eight-member group recently levelled up with ...

Japanese boy band Arashi announced that they will be disbanding after their concert tour in 2026. The quintet, who went on hiatus in 2020, made the announcement through a lengthy social media post on ...

TOKYO, Japan — J-pop mega-group Arashi, wildly popular in Japan and elsewhere in Asia, said they would end their activities as a band following a final tour next year. Since debuting in 1999 ...

The story may centre around a J-pop girl group, but its exploration of the pressures put on young performers feels like it could also apply to Western groups. The story is about Happy Fans ...

At the moment, the focus is on Mai (Kyoko Saito, bringing her time as a member of J-pop girlband Hinatazaka46 to bear). But Nanaka (Yuna Nakamura) is closing in, as evidenced by one creepy ...

Hamasaki, known as Ayu to her fans, made her debut in 1998. She is one of the most well known J-pop singers of the early 2000s, inspiring fashion trends and charting with songs such as A (1999 ...

Exploitative contracts that force young female Japanese pop stars to forego relationships and sex are at the heart of director Koji Fukada's latest film, which has premiered in Cannes. The 45-year ...

The relatively recent emergence of K-pop as a cultural juggernaut has retrained attention on Japan’s J-pop machine, both of which have dark sides that are starting to garner negative attention.