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Agricultural workers harvest jasmine flowers at sunrise at a field in the village of Shubra Balula in Egypt's northern Nile delta province of Gharbiya on July 7.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Aug 25, 2025
Egyptian farmers behind world¡¯s perfumes face climate fight alone
Jasmine has sustained thousands of Egyptian farmers for generations, but rising temperatures, prolonged dry spells and climate-driven pests are putting that legacy at risk.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Aug 11, 2022
Perfume looks to the future with kindness
The pop group taps into the nostalgic sounds of city pop and melancholic views of the present in its seventh full-length album, ¡°Plasma.¡±
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / ON: TECH
Nov 22, 2020
Tech to improve your at-home concerts and beat the winter blues
It still pays to be cautious about COVID-19, but the development of interesting and useful gadgets to improve our ¡°with corona¡± life never stops.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Sep 30, 2020
Ten Japanese albums Rolling Stone missed on its ¡®500 Greatest¡¯ list
Rolling Stone compiled a list of the 500 greatest albums of all time but there were no Japanese entries. So we came up with a few candidates of our own.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / Sound Off
Feb 26, 2020
COVID-19 fears hit live music in Japan
With fears over the COVID-19 outbreak increasing, a slew of overseas artists have cancelled live shows in Japan, while others are determined that the show must go on.
CULTURE / Music
Nov 15, 2019
Da Pump, Arashi, Twice among lineup for 70th ¡®Kohaku Uta Gassen¡¯ music show
Alongside perennials will be acts making their first appearances on the music battle show, such as Foorin, King Gnu and Kis-My-Ft2
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Aug 24, 2019
¡®Perfume: In Search of Your Signature Scent¡¯: Up the distinguished nose of an olfactory detective
Neil Chapman¡¯s passion for scents has taken him all over the world and incited him to write ¡®Perfume,¡¯ a ¡®scent atlas¡¯ that takes the form of a gorgeous 288-page guidebook.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
May 2, 2019
Heisei offered a number of lessons J-pop artists should learn from going into the Reiwa Era
The past year in Japanese pop has felt like one big musical revue devoted to the Heisei Era (1989-2019), with TV shows reflecting on the biggest hits of that period. Now that Reiwa has finally started, the cultural discourse can turn to figuring out how this new period¡¯s sound will come together.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jan 10, 2019
Perfume goes back to dance basics ahead of Coachella debut
Perfume keeps finding new opportunities more than 15 years into its career. This spring, the electro-pop trio embarks on its latest international tour, with stops in Asia and North America, but the real development comes at the very end of that jaunt when the group plays the Coachella Valley Music and...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Apr 25, 2018
NHK pushes to define culture ahead of 2020 with some help from Perfume
With the Pyeongchang Olympics wrapped up, the spotlight has shifted to Tokyo ahead of the 2020 Games. The build up to the sporting spectacular is already well under way.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / STRANGE BOUTIQUE
Mar 26, 2017
Music¡¯s shifting tides reveal a hunger for artistry in Japan
Music is often characterized over-simplistically as a battle between rock and pop, seriousness and fun, but the two are always in an ever-shifting balance. With this column coming to the end of its six-year run, it feels timely to cast a look back ¡ª and perhaps also a hopeful eye forward ¡ª over the...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
May 15, 2016
Perfume¡¯s back with ¡®Cosmic Explorer,¡¯ but I still miss them
Perfume¡¯s fifth studio album, ¡°Cosmic Explorer,¡± starts off with a stunner. ¡°Navigate,¡± with its intricate electronic atmosphere and inspirational melody, creates the sense that one of Japan¡¯s most innovative groups is on course to discovering new sonic territory. Then, the EDM iceberg hits. The title...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 31, 2015
Perfume hits the big screen in new documentary about touring overseas
It would be giving techno-pop trio Perfume¡¯s new documentary film ¡°We Are Perfume ¡ª World Tour 3rd Document¡± too much credit to say that it shows the struggles of touring abroad. Aside from a mishap regarding a busted LED screen in Los Angeles, that is.
CULTURE / Music
Aug 9, 2015
Even if you don¡¯t see Yasutaka Nakata at Summer Sonic, you¡¯ll probably hear him
Punters heading off to Makuhari Messe this weekend for SonicMania ¡ª the all-night event preceding the annual Summer Sonic music festival ¡ª should try to arrive at the venue early to secure a prime spot for the evening¡¯s first act: pop trio Perfume.
CULTURE / Music
Mar 24, 2015
SXSW¡¯s Japan Nite celebrates 20 lively years
For the past two decades, the Japan Nite showcase has been one of the most celebrated events at the South By Southwest (SXSW) music conference and festival, a gathering where industry types, everyday music fans and performers from all over the world descend on Texas¡¯ capital. The music component of this...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 28, 2014
2328 umbrellas + one drone + OK Go = made-in-Japan brilliance
¡°When you¡¯re employing hundreds of umbrellas that all have to go up at the same time ¡ª there¡¯s going to be problems,¡± says Damian Kulash, the lead singer of OK Go.
CULTURE / Music
Sep 9, 2014
Perfume announces worldwide re-release of ¡®Level3¡¯ ahead of tour
Perfume has announced the worldwide release for a bonus edition of its album ¡°Level3¡± via U.S. label Astralwerks, just in time for the trio¡¯s first American concerts.
CULTURE / Music / STRANGE BOUTIQUE
Dec 24, 2013
Familiar obstacles stymie change in domestic music industry
While the Japanese music industry ended last year on a promise of change, 2013 has highlighted a few of the ingrained practices that are going to be a little bit more difficult to dislodge.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Nov 26, 2013
Daito Manabe set to work his visual magic at Electraglide
In late 2008, a YouTube video began to circulate online of a bespectacled man with electrodes attached to his face, short bursts of electricity making his muscles twitch in time to a soundtrack of glitchy electronica. Titled ¡°electric stimulus to face -test3¡°, the clip would eventually rack up more than...
CULTURE / Music / STRANGE BOUTIQUE
Nov 26, 2013
Look to pop culture if you want to blame someone for A-Chan¡¯s gay gaffe
All art is political. All pop culture is political.
Japan weighs regulating Pokemon cards amid trading mania
A Pokemon event is held in Jakarta on July 11
Head of Swiss euthanasia firm dies after collapsing while ascending Mount Fuji
Around 200,000 people typically scale the 3,776 meter Mount Fuji each year.
Indian brothers make manga debut in Japan
Two Indian brothers made their manga debut in Japan with "Kung Fu Kung Fool" ¡ª an action-comedy series that follows the adventures of a notorious thief and a young boy.
Japan scientists identify clusters of protein believed to trigger Alzheimer¡¯s disease
A team of researchers said they found a ¡°seed¡± that accelerates the amyloid beta accumulation process in the brain, naming it ¡°Peak 1 amyloid beta,¡± as seen in a mouse's brain.
A perfect storm: Kaze Fujii fans flock to Fuji Rock
Okayama-born singer-songwriter Kaze Fujii has carved out a distinctive place in Japanese pop since his major-label debut in 2019.
The sci-fi sensibilities of electronic trio Black Boboi
Black Boboi was formed in 2018 when solo artists Julia Shortreed, Utena Kobayashi and Ermhoi came together under Kobayashi¡¯s newly founded label, Bindividual.
A perfect storm: Kaze Fujii fans flock to Fuji Rock
Okayama-born singer-songwriter Kaze Fujii has carved out a distinctive place in Japanese pop since his major-label debut in 2019.
Can Japanese comedy get laughs in English? Yoshimoto Kogyo lets the jokes rip
Wes-P has millions of followers and his viral clips made him recognizable out of Japan.
The 180-day locals: Life on Japan¡¯s digital nomad visa
Christopher Flinn works remotely from Tokyo earlier this month. Japan issued 646 digital nomad visas in 2025, but tourism officials are hoping to increase that figure in the coming years, with Japan's relatively cheap cost of living and the weak yen seen as potential draws for young professionals.
Japan reveals hint of new defense spending target in fiscal blueprint
The Self-Defense Forces' Type 16 mobile combat vehicle fires during a joint live-fire drill with U.S. Marines as part of the annual Resolute Dragon exercises in Yufu, Oita Prefecture, on June 28.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

Longform

For many people, utility poles and power lines have become such a familiar part of Japan¡¯s landscape that they often go unnoticed.
Why Japan¡¯s utility poles won¡¯t be disappearing anytime soon
By Alex K.T. Martin

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