Billboard Japan released its 2025 year-end charts earlier this month, and on the Global Japan Songs Excl. Japan list ranking songs from Japan being listened to in more than 200 countries and regions, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2025, Universal Music Japan’s president and CEO, Naoshi Fujikura, was chosen for inclusion in Billboard‘s Global Power Players ...

Gwen Stefani sparked backlash this week after she said "I’m Japanese" in a recent interview. "I said, 'My God, I'm Japanese and I didn't know it,'" Stefani told Allure in an interview published this ...

The Harajuku Girls singer claimed she was Japanese on two different occasions during the 32-minute interview with an Asian American reporter Gwen Stefani was infamously inspired by Japanese culture ...

MUSIC AWARDS JAPAN : The inaugural edition of MAJ hailed as the “Japanese Grammy Awards”—marked a groundbreaking moment in the nation’s music history. (Click here to read Review: Music Awards Japan, ...

"[It] should be okay to be inspired by other cultures," Stefani — who has faced accusations of appropriating Japanese and Latinx cultures throughout her career — says in a new Allure interview Tracey ...