Sultry-voiced Aki Yashiro, beloved as the “queen of enka” (Japanese ballads), died of rapidly progressive interstitial ...

A record company in Kagoshima city has been castigated as engaging in “revenge porn” with its plan to sell a CD featuring nude photos of singer Aki Yashiro, who died in December 2023. An online ...

As the second season of "My Hero Academia: Vigilantes" reaches its climax, Episode 25 (“This is a Hero!!”) has officially unmasked the mysterious "Scarred Man" as the villain No. 6. To mark the reveal ...

The photos were taken by her then-partner when she was in her 20s. A Japanese record company is facing a backlash after announcing it would release a CD by a dead singer that will include nude ...

Yashiro has called you to the office of Fortuna because, to put it quite simply, he's hungry (though he's too proud to say it outright). 5-Yashiro-1.jpg 5-Yashiro-2.jpg Apparently his schedule was ...

Here’s Nakata’s full statement about Yashiro and his new look. It also brought up how the team needed to spend some time working out his design to ensure it was right. I have to say, when I first saw ...

TOKYO, Japan (CNN) -- He is to banking in Japan what Richard Branson was to the airline industry in Britain. An agent of change in a highly conservative industry. Masamoto Yashiro created Shinsei Bank ...

The musical style enka usually gets referred to as Japan’s equivalent of country western music. The two do have a lot in common thematically, as the biggest hits of both genres are often centered on ...

When U.S. Investment Group, led by U.S.-based Ripplewood Holdings, bought the bankrupt Long Term Credit Bank in 2000 and tapped Masamoto Yashiro to run it, he set out to revolutionize the industry.