Japan's indigenous music scene is known for breeding cute, superplastic stars like Ayumi Hamasaki and Ayaka—über-pop princesses who routinely top the charts with their safely mainstream sound and ...

Japanese hula group, Mapuana’s Hula Nanis; Na Hoku Hanohano nominee, Michael Keale and Enka singing sensation, Torao Hikariyama from Oahu are headliners at the second “Ho’onani Kauai Festival: A ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- As a boy, Jerome White Jr. often spent weekends at his grandparents' house, where a melodramatic genre of Japanese music called enka would waft in the background. White's Japanese ...