From KISS to Ghost, there’s been a long history of ambiguous imagery in music. No band has used masks quite like Sleep Token, ...

Makoto Watanabe quit a major newspaper after it retracted a scoop. Now he runs an investigative nonprofit that does not shy away from challenging authority.

The EUR/JPY cross gains traction to around 161.10 during the early European trading hours on Friday. The Japanese Yen (JPY) ...

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The 71-year-old Japanese guitar hero Masayoshi Takanaka has had a long career that’s stretched across prog, jazz fusion, and the hybrid genre known as city pop. He’s collaborated with Santana and Roxy ...

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Les Rallizes Dénudés are the very definition of 'underground'. They became big in Japan without even trying. Their leader, Takashi Mizutani, remains a mystery.

These rules have led to the popular and easy-to-remember saying “spring forward, fall back.” Daylight saving time—also known as daylight time or summer time in the U.K. and other regions of ...

They peel back the tissue paper wrapping ... is a very particular vision of turn-of-the-21st-century luxury (see: the Tuscan ...