An absolute legend in Japanese free-jazz circles, Soejima Teruto wrote about, lectured on and promoted the music he loved for almost sixty years. This personal account of the birth and development of ...

Looking to emulate South Korea's K-pop juggernaut, the island nation's music industry is banding together to take its pop music global. By Glenn Peoples “We’ve been trying to spread our music from ...

A new awards gala was held to spread Japan’s pop music to the rest of the world, but the struggling domestic industry may have to ditch its traditional practices to enable expansion. The inaugural ...

Now is the time to launch music services, it seems. Popular messaging app Line began testing music streaming when it began to test a $2 per month service in Thailand in May, and today it has ...

Beneath the surface of sedate geisha teahouses and hushed shrines, Kyoto is a hotbed for legendary live music — here, Japan's most unique, riotous acts are set free in the city's underground clubs, ...