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HEAVY METAL

Gene Simmons (left) and Ace Frehley of the rock group Kiss perform before the start of Super Bowl XXXIII on Jan. 31, 1999.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Oct 18, 2025
Kiss lead guitarist Ace Frehley dies at 74
As ¡°Spaceman,¡± Ace Frehley turned rock concerts into cosmic theater, fusing loud guitars, pyrotechnics and pure showmanship.
Ozzy Osbourne performs with Black Sabbath as part of "The End" tour at Madison Square Garden in New York in 2016.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Jul 23, 2025
Heavy metal icon Ozzy Osbourne dead at 76
Ozzy Osbourne, the legendary frontman of heavy metal group Black Sabbath, died just weeks after he had played a farewell concert.
One of the themes in American guitarist Marty Friedman¡¯s autobiography ¡°Dreaming Japanese¡± is that while he has become a star in his own right in Japan, he still feels that he doesn¡¯t ¡°belong.¡±
CULTURE / Books
Jan 1, 2025
Guitarist Marty Friedman goes to bat for J-pop in new autobiography
¡°Dreaming Japanese¡± tells the story of how the Megadeth guitarist navigated Â鶹´«Ã½ music industry.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Mar 5, 2020
David Coverdale: A hard rock god sings the blues
Former Deep Purple and current Whitesnake vocalist David Coverdale says he won¡¯t be giving up on the music any time soon.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Jan 26, 2019
Calayer¡¯s curry slays with both flame and flavor
At Calayer, a curry restaurant that pays homage to thrash metal band Slayer, chef Takahiro Kubo prepares innovative, constantly changing curries for meat-lovers and vegans alike.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 25, 2017
Are Crossfaith rock¡¯s last true believers?
Crossfaith is experiencing an existential rock ¡®n¡¯ roll crisis. It¡¯s not stopping them from partying like rock stars, though.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jan 20, 2015
Perseverance wins Ningen Isu an encore
Kimonos and heavy metal. It¡¯s a combination that few groups have pulled off convincingly. While the aesthetic may have been used last year to turn (or bang) more than a few heads in the West by heavy metal idol unit Babymetal, the tiny trio certainly wasn¡¯t the first to attempt it.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 14, 2014
Getting a glimpse of Tokyo¡¯s metal underbelly
Loud Park will go down this weekend at Saitama Super Arena, drawing fans excited to see mainstream metal acts such as Manowar, Dream Theater and veteran Japanese group Loudness, who was the first heavy metal band from this country signed to an American label and is halfway through its third decade of...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Aug 19, 2014
Coldrain deliver a stellar EP, but have we heard it before?
The buzz surrounding metal idols Babymetal and the success of metalcore act Crossfaith has brought more attention to Â鶹´«Ã½ heavy-music scene. Nagoya-based post-hardcore band Coldrain has been quick to take advantage of this with an EP titled ¡°Until the End¡± ¡ª a six-song release that comes on the...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Mar 18, 2014
Babymetal ¡°Babymetal¡±
It¡¯s not surprising that Babymetal has gone viral. The trio, bringing the seemingly disparate worlds of idol pop and heavy metal together, is a visually striking project perfect for the ¡°weird Japan¡± fans on the Internet.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
New ¡®Katsu Curry Index¡¯ aims to show how weak the yen really is
A CoCo Ichibanya curry house in Tokyo.
Mexican man arrested over attempt to smuggle some 200 lizards into Japan
Mexican alligator lizards seized by Tokyo Customs from a Mexican man who attempted to smuggle them into Japan on Saturday through Haneda Airport
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

Longform

Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
What Kumamoto revealed about Â鶹´«Ã½ earthquake readiness
By Alex K.T. Martin

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