One look at the Oricon charts today and it's often hard to tell what Japan's music tastes are. Idols seem to constantly be topping the daily, weekly, monthly, and year-end charts, and with large fan bases, English subbed TV shows,...

Chances are you've seen the unique and creative music video for "Golden Touch" by the Japanese singer Namie Amuro making it's way over the internet these past few days. Whether you're a longtime fan, a fan that's just...

History Emi Maria was born in Papua New Guinea to a Papua New Guinean father and a Japanese mother. She lived in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea until the age of 5, when she moved to Kobe, Japan....

Name The group's name can be translated as "Morning Girls" or "Morning Daughters", and as the name suggests, it is a reference to the age of the members, who are all in their late teens to early twenties. The...

Name The C in C-ute is substituted for "°C" to express the group's enthusiasm and passion, but the hyphen after it has no particular meaning. The group's name is pronounced like the word "キュート" ("cute") in Japanese. History...

History The group was originally formed in 1991 by the members Murakami and Kurosawa in 1991 as a group within their college chorus club "Street Corner Symphony" at the University of Waseda. They recruited three new members (4...

Name 二代目 ("Nidaime") in English literally means "Second Generation", making the group's full translated name "Second Generation J(apan) Soul Brothers". That's obviously way too long to be saying all the time, and most fans tend to shorten the...

Starting an "artist of the week" feature was an idea I'd had way back when Onehallyu was still Hallyu8. The Japanese section was still very tiny and it was hard to get conversations going due to the lack...

Welcome to Japanese Entertainment Industry 101! This is the first in a series of articles specifically written to help fans new to Japanese music learn more about the basics and history of the music industry! Want to learn...

JAY'ED (whose real name is Jade Goto) is an R&B singer signed to Universal Music Japan's sub-label FAR EASTERN TRIBE RECORDS. He lived in Austrailia, New Zealand as a child and moved to Japan at the age of...