In June of 1963, Kyu Sakamoto's "Ue wo Muite Aruko" — better known as "Sukiyaki" overseas — became Japan's first, and only, No. 1 hit single in the United States. Fifty years later, the song is still ...

In his classic polemic against modern Japan, "Dogs and Demons," Alex Kerr described how a system of government loans and subsidies in the 1980s spurred a nationwide outbreak of grandiose construction ...

This premier world music festival in Japan is held within the picturesque surrounds of the sparsely populated town of Nanto, some 400km west of Tokyo. Since its inception in 1991, Sukiyaki Meets the ...

Japan's biggest world music festival takes place in Nanto, Toyama in late August. Going on since 1991, Sukiyaki Meets the World welcomes a diverse crowd of performers from African, Asian and Latin ...