Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The inaugural MUSIC AWARDS JAPAN ceremony, the largest music awards in the country, is set to take place in May in Kyoto.

The Vocaloid universe is buzzing right now, not just with new voicebanks, but with a full-blown cultural moment as HATSUNE MIKU EXPO 2026 launches its North American tour. From a viral Honkai: Star ...

Living near Paris, Iyane (He/Him) is mainly covering Japanese media on DualShockers. He started his writing career in 2018 after being scouted for his blogging and talent for live-translating Japanese ...

Following a brief break, more new Hatsune Miku x Pokemon collaboration Project Voltage songs returned. The official social media account for the crossover revealed the names of the next four Vocaloid ...

Based in Scotland, Finn has been writing about Japanese pop culture for nine years now. He is also a gamer, hiker, and proud vegan. His passion is bringing news straight from Japan to you, in English, ...

Who is Hatsune Miku? Well, she’s not really a “who” at all. She’s not a person, or a team of people. Or even an animated front for a real singer, like Gorillaz. She’s a piece of vocal software that ...

Christian has been a gamer since his early childhood. His first video game system was the NeoGeo, which has made him a big fan of the King of Fighters and the Metal Slug series. Additionally, ...

This article originally appeared in Vulture. It wasn’t until 2007, though, that Crypton released Hatsune Miku (her name means “first sound of the future”), a highly stylized Vocaloid specifically ...