Billboard Japan asked Takeuchi to share her thoughts on her recent project, and also to comment on the "city pop" revival in ...

South Korean pop star group New Jeans ... One clip featuring an '80s Japanese hit racked up over seven million views on YouTube. For decades, Japanese music was almost unheard on South Korea's ...

A top-selling pop singer as a teenager in the 1980s ... international attention for her starring role in the sentimental Japanese drama “Love Letter,” died on Friday at her home in Tokyo.

The former Japanese teen idol, who became one of the most popular J-pop singers in the ‘80s and early ’90s, went on to achieve acclaim as an actor on both television and on the big screen ...