K-ON! film didn’t smash any records but had strong opening weekend pulling in a reported 316 million yen (about $4,050,000USD) on 137 screens for December 3-4. This should put the animated film in the #1 spot for the weekend just edging out the Steven Spielberg's “The Adventures of Tintin”...

Korea's largest music festival “26th Golden Disk Awards Ceremony” is set for the Kyocera Dome in Osaka Japan and span two days on January 11-12 2012.  The “Golden Disk Awards” aka Korea's Grammy is best known to the POP music world as “K-award”,...

Cocoa Otoko has a new single “Sayonara ja Nakute / Seishun Ouka” set for December 14th release and a new album set  for release in January but the group has announced that they will dissolve this coming March 2012. Details follow,Via Cocoa Otoko’s official website, “It’s sudden, but Cocoa...

  [New post Jan-15th with "Serment" release details] As with the first two seasons of anime Shakugan no Shana, singer Mami Kawada will provide an opening theme song for this third season, Shakugan no Shana III (final). Mami Kawada tweeted on December 4th that she...

Sandaime J Soul Brothers second album, “TRIBAL SOUL” is now set for a December 7th release and will include singles “FIGHTERS” and “Refrain” for a total of 11 tracks. More details on the release including jacket covers...

Nana Mizuki will be providing the theme song as well as show narration for the live-action television series adaptation of Natsumi Aida's comedy manga “Switch Girl!” This will be Mizuki's first theme song for a live-action television show. More details follow,Nana Mizuki commented, “I am very happy ...

  TV Asahi’s music show “MUSIC STATION” guest lineup for their show for Friday December 9th has just been released - Emi Takei, AKB48, Kis-My-Ft2, SMAP, frumpool and BoA - are all set to perform. More details on the...

Actress and now singer Emi Takei (Rurouni Kenshin) will release her debut single, “Koi Suru Kimochi” on December 14th. An early peek at the song as been released via Universal Music Japan’s official YouTube channel. The video and release details follow,The song is written...

Shooting for the live-action “Rurouni Kenshin” wrapped up on November 21st and the studio has released a few photos from production sets in Kyoto taken back on August 27th.  Actor Takeru Sato as Himura Kenshin looks quite convincing - check out more photos that follow,Producers of the new “...

LAMA held a live performance on December 1st to kick-off the release of their first album “New!” at B1 STAGE ONE Shibuya Tower Records in Tokyo. The group played to a full crowd of fans who were lucky enough to get one of the free tickets. Pictures and some...

Acid Black Cherry is getting ready to release “CRISIS,” their 4th single of their 5-consecutive month single release project. Leader yasu’s new look is out now (see above) and the single will be released on December 21st. Check out the short preview video and see if the...

Ten new singles have hit the Oricon weekly charts with AKB48 subunit French Kiss in the top spot. More details and preview video of their new single, “Saisho no Mail” were previously posted. Lots of great new singles on the list including in the #5 spot, LiSA...

Singer and actress Shibasaki Kou, 10 years after her debut, has held her first live concert at the Nippon Budokan, November 28th. This was the final performance of her 17-stop tour supporting her latest album, “CIRCLE CYCLE.” Details and pictures follow,Shibasaki performed 27 songs in...

Long-running popular anime series “Gintama” has announced the new featured opening and ending theme songs - 4-girl group FLiP’s song “Wonderland” will be used as the new opening theme and Good Coming who will be making their major debut will provide as yet...

EXILE’s new double album “EXILE JAPAN / Solo” cover jackets and track lists details released today. The upcoming release includes new album “EXILE JAPAN” and a second album which is lead vocalist, ATSUSHI’s solo debut. Also the Deluxe Limited editions will include...