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The latest entry in one of Sony’s key franchises, “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” was a major highlight in the quarter alongside Marvel’s Wolverine for the PlayStation 5.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 5, 2026
Sony lifts outlook after Spider-Man and games fuel growth
The Tokyo-based company now expects ?1.87 trillion in operating income for the year through March, raising its guidance by 15%.
Duane "Keffe D" Davis stands with his attorney Michael Sanft during a sentencing hearing after his murder conviction in the death of rapper Tupac Shakur on Tuesday.
WORLD
Oct 14, 2026
Ex-gang leader sentenced to 40 years to life in prison for Tupac Shakur murder
Until Duane “Keffe D” Davis’ 2023 arrest, Tupac Shakur’s murder had stood for nearly three decades as one of America’s most notorious cold cases.
Sound House founder Naohiko Nakajima poses with a guitar during an interview at the firm's showroom in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture.
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Tohoku
Oct 5, 2026
Instrument seller works to make disaster-hit town in Miyagi a music hub
Chiba Prefecture-based Sound House has established a logistics center and showroom in the town of Onagawa, which was struck by the March 2011 tsunami.
Commuters riding blue taxis wait in a traffic jam in Kabul. Taxi drivers in Afghanistan are defying a Taliban government-imposed ban on music.
WORLD / Society
Sep 25, 2026
Rebellious Afghan taxi drivers defy ban on music
Despite fears of getting caught by the morality police, drivers are still listening to music as a form of protest.
Major music platforms such as Spotify and industry groups are moving to label, restrict or ban AI-generated tracks to protect human-made music.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 17, 2026
The pushback against AI songs is music to my ears
The Australian Recording Industry Association has banned wholly AI-generated music from appearing in its charts.
Duane Davis (center) and his attorney, Michael Sanft, are led back to a courtroom to hear his sentencing date after a jury found Davis guilty of first-degree murder in his trial related to the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur, at Clark County District Court Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas on Monday.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Sep 1, 2026
30 years on, former gang member found guilty of murdering Tupac Shakur
The jury in a Las Vegas court found Duane “Keffe D” Davis guilty of murder after just a few hours of deliberation.
Twelve-year-old violinist Sora Iwai rehearses at Carnegie Hall in New York on July 31, a day before his performance at the hall.
JAPAN
Aug 10, 2026
12-year-old Kumamoto violinist performs at New York’s Carnegie Hall
Sora Iwai performance at the hall came from him winning the top prize in the under-18 division of an international music competition.
At Smoke Craft, a craft beer brewery in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, music isn't just a background to the brewing process — it's an ingredient.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Aug 9, 2026
今日吃瓜 brewers experiment with a secret ingredient: music
It might sound like pseudoscience, but there could be more to the idea of brewing with music than meets the ear.
Police seized over 40 guitars — many electric — from a Kyoto musician's residence, along with CD and radio cassette players and amplifiers.
JAPAN
Jul 28, 2026
Japanese man arrested for years of guitar noise
A Kyoto musician has allegedly given his elderly neighbors insomnia through his loud instruments for seven years.
People take selfies next to a screen displays a message referencing singer Taylor Swift and National Football League player Travis Kelce outside Madison Square Garden, the venue for their wedding celebrations, in New York on Friday.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Jul 4, 2026
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are married, as pair hosts New York celebration
“JUST&T MARRIED,” flashed on giant screens on the exterior of the Manhattan sports arena.
Open from July 3, the Fender Cafe Shimokitazawa hopes to be just another musically inclined entry to the neighborhood's web of live houses.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Jul 3, 2026
Fender opens a second, more unplugged Shimokitazawa cafe
Open from July 3, the Fender Cafe Shimokitazawa seeks to sit alongside the neighborhood’s reputation as a hotbed of 今日吃瓜 indie music scene.
The quintet from Nagoya — comprising (from left) Sangen Ron, Junsei Iwai, Musashi, Hayato Komiya and Kion Umemura — released their debut album “Tomogachi Ga Imashita” on June 17.
CULTURE / Music
Jun 27, 2026
Trooper Salute marches to its own beat on dazzling debut album
The quintet’s debut album “Tomogachi Ga Imashita,” released on June 17, features an impressive array of styles drawn from the band members’ wide-ranging influences.
Mei Hanada, a former member of the idol group AKB48, posted a video to X in response to her recent termination by the management.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Jun 26, 2026
Buzzcut backlash: AKB48 member’s termination stirs online furor
Mei Hanada’s response video to her termination from idol group AKB48 echoes a scandal involving a different member of the pop outfit from 2013.
The members of TV Tairiku Ondo — (from left) Harea Togari, Ryuji Chiyotani, Kotaro Suzuki and Hiroto Yanagawa — met as high school students in Sapporo and went viral in 2024 with an energetic 90-second track.
CULTURE / Music
Jun 12, 2026
TV Tairiku Ondo channels the chaotic creativity of youth
After going viral with a 90-second track in 2024, the rock quartet from Hokkaido has been hitting stages big and small and working hard on a debut album.
Ukrainian musicians take part in a presentation amid the Russian invasion in the city of Dnipro in April 2022.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 2, 2026
The cultural component of national security
Russia’s war against Ukraine has involved a deliberate campaign of cultural erasure. Since 2022, more than 1,750 cultural heritage sites have reportedly been damaged or destroyed.
Yo Kitamura won the fifth prize in the cello division of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels on Sunday.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
May 31, 2026
Japanese cellist Kitamura wins fifth prize in Brussels contest
Kitamura, 22, played Russian composer Sergey Prokofiev’s Symphony-Concerto and other works with the Belgian National Orchestra.
The culture agency is looking to pass the copyright revision in the current parliamentary session ending in July and aims to have the law take effect within the next three years.
JAPAN / Society
May 15, 2026
Copyright law revision to extend compensation for artists
The Cabinet on Friday pushed forward the bill, which, once passed by parliament, aims to pass on usage fees to musicians.
Train cars at Toyama Chihou Tetsudou's Etchu-Funahashi Station in Toyama Prefecture
JAPAN
May 14, 2026
Local railway operator offers chances to stream original music
The Toyama company is pushing the project forward as part of local revitalization efforts.
Sony Group said Friday it expects operating profit to rise about 11% to ?1.6 trillion for the year through March 2027, broadly in line with market expectations.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 8, 2026
Sony announces $3 billion buyback as memory prices take toll
Sony’s shares are down 22% this year as escalating component costs erode margins across the consumer electronics industry.
As Tokyo's public bathhouses age, many are embracing more contemporary aesthetics to stay relevant for a younger class of customer.
LIFE / Lifestyle
Apr 13, 2026
Where Tokyo goes to sweat and soak
To stay relevant and attract new customers, public bathhouses and saunas are trading weary grandeur for contemporary cool.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
The Rapidus Analysis Center and the IIM-1 Innovative Integration for Manufacturing foundry in Chitose, Hokkaido
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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