Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For his second full-length album, and his first on a homegrown Japanese label, legend ambient techno producer Ken Ishii wanted to ...

I have spent the past 2 weeks in japan, working on this track whenever I had some time in a hotel or BnB. I have always liked ...

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When Atsushi Maeda talks about Rural, he doesn't use the language of festivals. He talks about zones: sonic, emotional, mental. Places you didn't know existed until the music took you there. "I would ...

Set at a strictly monitored Japanese high school at some point in the near future, Neo Sora’s “Happyend” might be a low-key drama about a group of friends as they steel themselves (and each other) ...

FUKUI, Japan — Shrines and temples reflect Japan's two major religions Shinto and Buddhism. Many Japanese practice both. The customs and rituals have been in Japan for hundreds of years. But, in this ...

With Japan riding the crest of its postwar economic miracle, Sony chairman Akio Morita and Japan’s Minister of Transport Shintarō Ishihara unleashed a manifesto. The document, published in 1989, ...

Sonic CD was a rather nostalgic game for me and the music I had remembered faintly even after several years. A few months ago I had a chance to listen to the US and Japanese tracks and found that they ...