TOKYO--Air guitars just got real. Japanese toy makers unveiled gadgets at the annual Tokyo International Toy Show that, thanks to heat and motion sensors, actually make music. "This is a toy that ...

Japanese guitar culture is, was, and always will be a beast of its own — often dwarfing anywhere else in the world, including America. A look around any of Japan’s major guitar stores ...

TORRANCE — Hisao Shinagawa says he has written 1,700 songs — “more songs than Bob Dylan.” Some, in fact, have dubbed him as the Japanese Bob Dylan, writing and singing about social ...

The game is pure Japanese gaming bliss. Gitaroo Man was released in Japan on June 21, 2001, and the following February in the US on Sony’s PlayStation 2 console. It received critical acclaim ...

The intimate space neighboring Alta Strada in Mt. Vernon Triangle once housed a globetrotting string of pop-ups from Michael Schlow.Now the restaurateur is ready to lay down roots with Nama, a 32-seat ...

Paris-based sales company Charades has boarded Japanese director Shô Miyake’s drama Small Slow But Steady ahead of its premiere in the Encounters section of the Berlinale. Yukino Kishii stars ...

A Japanese teenage girl has been crown the Air Guitar champion of the world. Nanami Nagura, 19 from Tokyo, took the top spot at the event in Oulu, a city in Finland, last night. Sporting the nick ...