PARK CITY, Utah -- There's a scene in Tokyo Idols where Rio Hiiragi, a pop star trying to make it big, bikes to small provinces as a publicity stunt to meet her fans. She's wearing a cute yellow ...

Fukada's new film stars former idol Kyoko Saito and is based on real cases of Japanese idols being sued by their own management agencies for violating so-called "no relationship" clauses in their ...

The world's most famous Kansas City Chiefs fan will make it to see beau Travis Kelce play in Super Bowl LVIII, even though she is performing in Tokyo the night before, Japan's U.S. embassy said Friday ...

It was a meant to be a happy occasion to launch the New Year – a meet and greet between a Japanese pop idol and her fans. But Maho Yamaguchi didn’t turn up to her pop group’s event on January 6. In ...

In this Friday, Feb. 1, 2013 file photo, hugely popular Japanese girl band AKB48 members, from left in first row, Haruna Kojima, Mayu Watanabe, Minami Takahashi, Mariko Shinoda, Tomomi Itano and Rie ...

Kyoko Miyake’s pop culture profile spotlighting Japanese singers premiered in Sundance’s World Cinema Documentary Competition. By Justin Lowe The Japanese pop music trend featuring young, ...