J-Pop & Music

NHK’s ‘Bistro Voice’ Premieres October 24: Koichi Yamadera Hosts as Ayumu Nakajima and Yuhei Matsushita Deliver High-Stakes Dramatic Readings

TOKYO — In a major television event bridging the worlds of high literature and immersive audio performance, NHK has officially...

J-Pop & Music

The Evolution of Sonic Identity: Naoko Watanabe Hosts NHK E-Tele’s SCHOOL OF J-POP Starting with “Chogakusei”

Executive Overview The contemporary cultural positioning of Japanese popular music—colloquially known as J-POP—has undergone a monumental paradigm shift over the...