HAMAMATSU, Japan It was a sight fit for an episode of the Twilight Zone: Dressed in black formal wear, a crowd of musicians filed into a concert hall west of Tokyo and sit down to play. But instead of ...

These tattooed badasses are not, in fact, extras from that bafflingly misguided "47 Ronin" movie. They’re the members of the newly-signed Wagakki Band, which combines the chunky guitar chords and ...

TI's crisis response team in Japan included (clockwise from bottom left) Rob West, John Smith, Sam Moore and Terry Dalton. The men went to Japan immediately after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami ...

Discover the relationship between music and Buddhism through ancient Japanese instruments such as the gogen-biwa and kugo from the Shosoin Repository in Nara, artifacts restored from Chinese ...

Fender is a historic American brand and many of its most prized instruments are still built in California. Yet some of its most hotly discussed releases originate from the other side of the world.

Consider the saxophone player's pandemic dilemma: How to play at home in a Japanese apartment, notorious for paper-thin walls, without making your neighbors want to kill you. In a pre-COVID-19 world, ...