TOKYO -- After a decade in the karaoke business, lounge owner Kagura Muto has heard her share of sour notes. But business of late has been a different sort of flat. Under the white-hot spotlights at ...

Kenshi Yonezu ’s “IRIS OUT” continues to dominate the Billboard Japan Hot 100 for the seventh consecutive week, on the chart ...

Singer-songwriter Eito was nursing a hangover in an electronics store massage chair when notifications started streaming in.

TOKYO — After a decade in the karaoke business, lounge owner Kagura Muto has heard her share of sour notes. But business of late has been a different sort of flat. Under the white-hot spotlights at ...

Earlier this weekend, in a bar somewhere in Tokyo, the cradle of karaoke, the Metamodern country singer treated some lucky Japanese to a killer rendition of Roy Orbison’s “Crying.” Simpson posted the ...

Shigeichi Negishi, the entrepreneur who invented the world’s first karaoke machine, has died aged 100. Negishi, whose 1967 “Sparko Box” prototype is among several devices credited with ushering in ...

Before I moved to rural Japan in 2002, my sole karaoke experience had left me with no desire for an encore. A friend had dragged me to a half-empty bar and forced me to sing "I Love Rock 'n Roll" in ...

One of the standing jokes in the music biz -- right up there with "the check is in the mail" and "we can fix it in the mix" -- is that your band is "big in Japan." Some Wisconsin bands have been lucky ...

TOKYO--In Japan, would-be pop stars can now download tunes and practice singing their favorite songs through their PSPs. Taito, one of the country's major karaoke providers, today announced that it ...