The girls of SCANDAL announced back in September they would hold their first concert at the venerable Nippon Budokan concert hall. This past March 28th that concert titled, “SCANDAL JAPAN TITLE MATCH LIVE 2012 ‘SCANDAL VS BUDOKAN’” happened in front of 8,000 enthusiastic...

NMB48 has titled their 4th single “Nagiichi” which is scheduled for release on May 9th. Also announced are the 16 members performing on the single. NMB48 is the Namba, Osaka sister group for AKB48 formed in 2011 and their previous three singles all...

Sexy Zone is set to release the second single “Lady Diamond” on April 11th. Much anticipated after their debut single topped the charts and eventually selling over 300,000 copies. With an average age of just 14 1/2 these boys set Oricon record for the youngest group to...

FTISLAND has a new Japanese single, first for 2012 and seventh overall titled “NEVERLAND”. The single is featured as the opening theme for Spring anime OZMA that began airing on March 16th. The release due out April 18th is offered in three editions, Limited with bonus DVD,...

KARA has announced a special edition of their chart topping album “Super Girl” that was previously released back in November 23rd 2011. The “Super Girl JAPAN TOUR Special Edition” includes the CD tracks similar to the Limited edition type-C with an additional bonus track “...

The boys of Korean group FTISLAND have revealed that they will release their second Japanese album, which isn’t yet titled, on May 16th. The album is set to come in three editions, a Limited edition with deluxe photo book, a special Limited Lawson’s edition with bonus DVD and only available via Lawson’s stores...

Perfume's new single “Spring of Life” will be released on April 11th and girls have just exposed a longer preview video for the new single. The song used in the video is the “KIRIN Hyouketsu Chi-HI” CM version and it will be available via Chaku-Uta...

EXILE member and solo artists ATSUSHI has covered children’s song “Furusato” and revealed a music video for the song. Considered as a great vocalist who can “properly sing the heart of Japan” ATSUSHI is lead vocalist for mega group EXILE....

Singer and song writer Faylan has announced a new single “White Justice” which is also featured as the third ending theme to anime Mobile Suit Gundam AGE. The single will come in two editions a Limited with bonus DVD and a Regular CD-only edition with anime...

Tetsuya Komuro (TK) has released album “Tetsuya Komuro meets VOCALOID” with updated versions of his classic songs merged with vocals from Vocaloid synthesized voice software. This album is one of several albums TK has released on March 28th. Also just exposed is a full length music video for track...

AKB0048 new Spring anime featuring AKB48 members in character roles and a story tied to the group has exposed a long trailer video. Animation production is by studio Satelight and looks to be of very high quality - cost per episode we’d expect to be quite high with the AKB48...

Singer-songwriter Lisa Halim has released a new single “Itsumademo…feat. Maiko Nakamura” digitally only via iTunes and Chaku-Uta Full on March 28th. The song is in collaboration with popular R&B singer Maiko Nakamura. Lisa is half Indonesian and half Japanese and debuted in 2007 with a mini-album and had several...

Visual-kei band ViViD has announced their 5th single “REAL” which will be featured as the next opening theme for anime Mobile Suit Gundam AGE. The single is set for release on May 16th and will come in 3 editions, Limited A & B with different bonus...

BIGBANG has just released on March 28th their 5th album “ALIVE” in Japan. You can check out the release details previously posted here as well as some other video previews for the music videos included on the DVDs that are part of the...

Kis-My-Ft2 continues their streak with another solid #1 with their third single “SHE! HER! HER!” (release details) that easily tops the weekly Oricon charts with over 192,000 sold. In the number two spot and also making a strong showing is those Korean girls of ...

Singer Yusuke will release his 3rd full length album “Ano..Namida ga Arukara Ai ga Arundesukedo” on April 4th. The album is 15 tracks including his newest single “Baby Baby” just released March 7th plus singles “Zenbu Suki.”, “Inazuma Samurai...