TOKYO -- Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son's SoftBank Group plans to contact big investment firms including Apollo Global Management about fundraising for a U.S. artificial intelligence project ...

Japan is staring down a demographic cliff. The population has shrunk for 15 straight years, with births hitting a record low of 730,000 last year and deaths a record high of 1.58 million.

International tourism to Japan has exploded in recent years, and while the official figure for 2024 is yet to be released it is now certain to be a new record in excess of the 31.9 million who ...

Takamine is a new whiskey made with koji, a mold that’s long been used in Japan for starting fermentation.Credit...Kosuke Okahara for The New York Times Supported by By Clay Risen One afternoon ...

A weekly ranking of the most popular songs in Japan combining physical and digital sales, audio streams, radio airplay, YouTube and GYAO! video views and karaoke data, compiled by Billboard Japan.

It will boast a large number of tracks at 179, but take note that Tower Records conflated the music tracks with sound effects to ... game that appeared first in Japan in November 1990, as well ...

Toward the end of his life, Ryuichi Sakamoto spoke of wanting to make “music freed from the constraints of time.” As the musician told the Asahi Shimbun in 2019, “I guess it is similar to ...

The Sound of Vietnam While the Vietnam Symphony Orchestra faces a threat to its survival, a Japanese conductor is chosen to save it! The story's protagonist is a young Japanese conductor, Sakura Kazuo ...

In the early to late 90s, composers wielded sound chips as instruments, crafting melodies with limited resources and huge ambitions to etch themselves into players’ memories. From catchy classic ...

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s daughter North West, 11, showcases her musical stylings in a new language on FKA Twigs’ ...

The right sound system can revolutionize your movies, games, and music into an immersive audio experience. You can transform your living room into a mini home theater, whether it's soundbars ...

Sound the dream guitar klaxon as Gretsch gives a makeover to Falcon, Tennessean and Nashville hollowbodies and positions the ...