You might have heard city pop recently on TikTok or on The Weeknd’s track Out of Time – this is why the soundtrack to Japan’s boom years of the 1980s is having a viral moment.

City pop is the latest trend to hit Japan's indie-music scene. Well, not the musical style, just the words. The term was originally used to describe an offshoot of the emerging Western-influenced ...

ALBAWABA - Meet Alessandra Mussolini, the daughter of the late Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and a former Japanese City Pop star in the 80s! Despite. Skip to main content ...

On Sunday, January 13, a 57-year-old Japanese singer named Anri will play a rare midwestern show for a sold-out crowd at the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center. In the mid-80s, while Japan ...

Hiroshi Nagai’s illustrations feel like a glimpse into a dream: tranquil urban landscapes with pools and oceans in deep blues; record stores without customers; glittering office-tower windows ...

It’s unfortunate that city pop isn’t listened to more today — I guess saying “I listen to ‘80s Japanese disco” gives off a very particular flavor of that musically-holier-than-thou ...

Celebrated archival reissue label Light in the Attic (LITA) announces the latest chapter in its acclaimed Japanese City Pop series, Pacific Breeze, which delivers a mesmerizing blend of AOR, R&B ...

In the 1980s, Japan found its regional answer to synth pop and disco in the form of city pop. This once mostly unknown genre is currently attracting a global interest thanks to reissuse labels like ...

Light In The Attic is releasing a third instalment in its much-loved compilation series, Pacific Breeze, devoted to Japanese city pop. The latest record, Pacific Breeze 3: Japanese City Pop, AOR & ...

Wild monkeys have attacked dozens of residents of a city in southwestern Japan in recent weeks, with reports of the animals crawling through house windows and striking from behind, as police step ...