HANABIE.'s Bari Bari Buddy is the ending theme for Reincarnated as a Sword season 2. Release dates, the anime and new album ...

Salasa's Sobaniite (Soba ni Ite) is out now. The Shonan singer's autumn R&B song, her Live Bluesy EP, vinyl and Japan tour ...

In 1980 Mitsuyo Uesugi danced at The Place in London on Kazuo Ohno’s European tour. Ohno was one of the key founders of butoh. On Friday 13 November, now 76, Uesugi returns to The Place for the first ...

How director Mai Burns built Rebellious Bodies around Kazuo Ohno's improvised butoh, and the artists bringing his school to ...

Butoh pioneer Mitsuyo Uesugi on leaving ballet to study with Kazuo Ohno, and why she never expected butoh to become a global ...

Two professors from Kyoto and Osaka are in London to talk about bon odori, the circle dance at the heart of Japanese summer festivals, and they share a bill with a Hiroshige opera and twenty years of ...

Hidejiro Honjoh rang Dai Fujikura one day with a simple wish: “I want to play with Claire Chase!” Honjoh is a shamisen player, and has been Fujikura’s own shamisen teacher since the pandemic. Chase is ...

On Friday 23 October 2026, the black frontage at 53 to 54 Berwick Street lights up red for NQJPN, a late-night cocktail bar and club with a Japanese arcade tucked behind it. It comes from the team ...

Centimillimental released his new song kanawanai on 7 October 2026. It is the opening theme for the TV anime Hello, I am a Witch and my Crush Wants me to Make a Love Potion!, which began airing in ...