Former top Japanese idol-turned-actress Kawaei Rina and actor Hirose Tomoki have divorced. Kawaei Rina and Hirose Tomoki each announced their divorce on their respective social media and blogs on the ...

Due to the misuse of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, the captain of the Indonesian idol group JKT48, Freya, has decided to report the person who manipulated her photo using AI technology to ...

If, as journalist Jeff Yang said, the locus of pop culture in Asia shifted from Japan to Korea in the last ten years, how did Japan lose the throne? Japan’s pop culture dominance is hurting, and not ...

Top Japanese girl band AKB48 have released a single created using AI, after it proved more popular with fans than a rival song written by famed J-pop producer Yasushi Akimoto. As part of a songwriting ...

AKB48, with more than 40 members, are one of the most successful bands in Japanese pop One of Japan's biggest girl groups, AKB48, have released a single that was partially generated by artificial ...

One of Japan's biggest girl groups, AKB48, have released a single that was partially generated by artificial intelligence, after a televised songwriting contest. The competition saw composer Yasushi ...

Windows English and English Internation have the same features and functionality. However, there are a few minor differences when it comes to default settings and spellings. If you live in the UK, US, ...

HANA's "Blue Jeans" follows at No. 3. By Billboard Japan Number_i blasts in at No. 1 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100 with “U.M.A.,” on the chart released Aug. 20. “U.M.A.” is the lead single off the ...

Scene: A dingy hole-in-corner “live house.” Air: close. Noise: stifling. Room to move: none – except onstage. There the movement is intense, frenetic: Six miniskirted “idols” flinging themselves about ...

TOKYO -- The share of homegrown tunes is growing in Southeast Asia's music market, fueled by advancements in digitization that have reduced production and distribution costs. The rise of middle-income ...