ChumuNote Hosts Non Aomi on ChumuMate Episode 26
The booking pairs a VTuber curator with an artist who moves between virtual and real performance, which is the exact overlap AWA's V-music programming is built on.
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BE:FIRST Joins CDTV Live! Live! Monthly Live Segment On November 2
Booking BE:FIRST into a segment built around a month-long residency signals the show is using its three-hour block to give album-era acts extended stage time rather than single-song slots.
Cinema Today
Satomi And Nanamori Graduate From Strawberry Prince
Strawberry Prince loses one performing member while keeping its producer and manager, so the act continues as a group with Nanamori. offstage and Satomi working alone.
Anime News Network
KATAN Ties Skincare Campaign to BIGBANG Japan Dome Dates
The campaign puts a beauty brand's product push behind a single tour leg, tying sales entries and a 60-person ticket drawing to the Osaka dome dates rather than to the wider world tour.
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Ado Sets Cover Song Tour for 10th Year as Utaite
The tour and the December 23 cover album "Ado no Utattemita Album Sono 2" put her cover-singer roots, not the Uta and "Sho" vocal work, at the center of the next cycle.
KAI-YOU
KAMITSUBAKI STUDIO's RIM Sets October 21 Single for 7th Anniversary
The single is tied to the date RIM started with KAMITSUBAKI STUDIO, so the release doubles as the studio's own anniversary marker rather than a standalone song drop.
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K/DA Return With FIRESTARTER, Their First New Song in About Six Years
K/DA built its name on 2018's POP/STARS and then went quiet after 2020's ALL OUT, so FIRESTARTER is the group returning to original music with two of its four voices swapped out.
Game Spark
Cygames Says Los Angeles Uma Musume Concerts May Be Canceled Over Unapproved Visas
The tour's first North American stop is now a visa case, and the announcement lands days before the Peacock Theater dates with no approved paperwork in hand.
Anime News Network
HarboR and HARAHARA Launch Idol Group Built Around TikTok LIVE
HarboR is using its liver-management playbook to turn TikTok LIVE group streams into a fan-acquisition funnel that ends in physical live events.
ASCII.jp
HELIOS Rising Heroes Original Soundtrack Vol.2 Ships 54 Tracks
The second volume collects event BGM alongside regular game tracks, which puts the soundtrack release on the same footing as the game's ongoing event schedule rather than treating it as a standalone album.
Nijimen
Ji Chang Wook Tour Finale to Air on Fuji TV TWO in December
A tour finale delivered as a paid-subscriber broadcast rather than a live event slots Ji Chang Wook's singing side into the same Fuji TV TWO Drama & Anime channel that carries his acting audience, which is where a Japanese solo music career is built.
Nijimen
Hoshikawa Sara Sets Stella Note Track List, Early Stream For Attoteki Star Hoshi
Nijisanji is putting a full album cycle behind a single Liver, with a Blu-ray, an M-Card and pre-order lottery codes tied to her live show, rather than treating the release as a standalone CD.
PANORA
BE:FIRST's JUNON Describes Watching Yuya Yagira on the RYUJI Set
A boy-group member taking a supporting yakuza role in a remake helmed by Nobuo Mizuta puts the focus on what he learns on set, not on the size of the part, and his account of copying Yagira's manner is the kind of detail that carries a promotional interview.
Cinema Today
DOES Release Garage Rock Single Nandatte Ii yo as 20th Anniversary Project's Second Month
The mid-point release confirms the METEORA st. project is running as planned, moving from the Dazai-inspired opener to a looser guitar number with a video built from the band's own overseas tour and studio footage.
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SuniSute Opens Lottery for First Hall Shows at Ariake in January 2027
The seven-member group, formed in February 2025, has moved from a Tokyo Dome festival debut in April 2025 through a first Zepp tour and an 11-show second tour to a three-show hall run, and the members named the concert DAWN themselves for the daybreak before the Budokan stage they say they are aiming at.
Nijimen
Switch Drop Fan Club Event Set for November 3 with Tixplus E-Tickets
The event lands three days after the group's Halloween one-man live at Takeshiba New Pier Hall, giving the fan club a second paid touchpoint in the same week while Tixplus handles both ticketing and entry.
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Denon Pop-Up Brings Its Turntable Archive to Omotesando
The event pitches analog ritual as the entry point, letting visitors handle records and hear flagship systems rather than read spec sheets, which is how a heritage audio brand reaches people who have never touched a turntable.
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[Alexandros] Festival Gets Nojima Store Campaign in Sagamihara
The campaign ties a city-run-scale rock event to local retail, giving Sagamihara shoppers a direct route into festival promotion through a hometown company.
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STARKIDS to Suspend Japan Live Shows After STARFES THE FINAL
A six-member hyperpop unit with a major-label debut behind it is stepping off the domestic live circuit at the moment it starts drawing on the scene it came up in, which puts the group's next move outside the room where its audience usually finds it.
KAI-YOU
Kazuya Kamenashi Joins THE FIRST TAKE With One-Take Rendition Of Kizuna
Kamenashi's turn on THE FIRST TAKE puts a 2005 drama insert song, one of the few solo compositions in his catalog, in front of the channel's audience while he works outside the label structure he left in March 2025.
KAI-YOU
Meetune Releases Koemori Karaoke App For iOS And Android
Koemori treats other people's singing as material to sing over rather than a finished post, which is a different bet than the solo-recording model most karaoke apps are built on.
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Stray Kids Tokyo Dome Show To Stream Live On Lemino
The stream carries a single date and no replay, so for overseas fans the Tokyo Dome night exists only in that window, while the Japan leg keeps expanding from domes to a stadium stop.
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Karapichi Paradise Tour Adds Vending Machine Sales for Hyogo Date
The tie-up shows the tour treating merch as a photo opportunity as much as a sale, and the partner intends to repeat the format at the next arena date.
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Lemino To Stream BTS Tokyo Dome Concert From November 28
The Japan leg of the tour is the first BTS Japan concert in about seven years, so the streaming rights to the Tokyo Dome stop give Lemino exclusive access to a concert date the domestic audience could not otherwise revisit.
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