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I love small monsters. Tokyo love! The world is going crazy for Lady Gaga and Japan is no exception. Within the last two years, Japan has gone absolutely gaga. Lady Gaga arrived at Narita Airport for her 2010 Monster Ball World Tour in what many has described as quite a ludicrous outfit. But her outfit [...]

Sakarias Eriksson, who is in Shanghai for two months, is telling about his experiences, life and general gossip from the big city.

Imagine you just created a new product, and you want to get this product out on the market as fast as you can. Your target audience – the fashion-hungering young people. Now, imagine the entertainment world in that country to be huge and popular. You especially want to hit the East Asian countries. The product [...]

If you have wanted to keep up with the beat of Japanese music, search no longer! The Oricon chart keeps you up-to-date with the hottest releases in the world of J-pop. Thousands of artists are featured, and it changes from week to week. Right now, number 1 on the Japanese Oricon chart is an artist [...]

Mucc ムック is a Japanese rock band formed in 1997. Their name is a bit interesting in the sense that it carries two different meanings. First, it’s inspired by a Japanese children’s TV-show, and furthermore they are known as “69” too, since 69 can be pronounced as “muku” in Japanese. Some would call Mucc a part [...]

“What the..?” you might think. Japan does have a lot of weird things… However, this is the name of a Japanese band I will now introduce you to. School Food Punishment is a new indie band and not a mainstream famous one. But their music is interesting and noticeable: electronic, spacy, sprinkled with some pop [...]

Japanese fans are something exceptional and fearsome and there are a lot of them. Tune in on some random popular J-pop song and they’ll all know the lyrics and exact dance moves. If you go a little further west to Japan you’ll find a country where the fans are at least the fearsome as the [...]

“Miyavi”. You might have seen this name before while surfing the net, or when you stumbled over a picture of a beautiful and freaky looking… man? Or maybe you have heard and seen some crazy fan-girls crying out his name while hugging a poster of this guy? Anyway, this guy is something quite special. He [...]

Soft, ”Lounge-like”, and laid-back music. That would be the keywords for this band. Some would characterize it as a bit punk or alternative rock, but it is also experimental and has a flow through its sound which just commands ”chill”. Anyway, Acidman is a Japanese 3-man rock band with several singles and albums on the [...]

We have just opened the door and gazed into the wicked world of Japanese music. We have fairly touched Jrock and only given you an unfair little taste of Jpop. But this time will be a bit different. I will introduce you (who do not already know about this band) to a more stylish and [...]