Acall has been made for Sugar Minott’s massive contribution to the expansion of reggae in Japan to be fully documented in English. The call came from no less a person than top Japanese Reggae artiste, ...

Akihiko Narisawa came to Jamaica two years ago from Japan with one aim in mind - to find authentic Jamaican music produced by Jamaican artists and send it back to his homeland, where love for Jamaican ...

King Midas Sound’s Kiki Hitomi blends Jamaican reggae with Japanese enka on her genre-twisting debut solo album Karma No Kusari. Laurent Fintoni takes a closer look at the roots and influences behind ...

TOKYO (AP) — A musical revolution in Jamaica has a connection with a bouncy rhythm from a portable electronic keyboard that’s the brainchild of a Japanese woman. The pattern that resonates in the 1985 ...

Japanese disc jockey Oga Works is preparing for his four-month Jah Works World Tour which starts in Jamaica in May. The trek ends in August, with dates in New York, Bermuda, the United Kingdom and ...

In 2001, longtime hardcore reggae fan Hidetsugo Haji faced a dilemma. He wanted to be a part of the “real thing,” but he lived in Japan, which lacked some basic pieces: a ghetto, for example, and the ...

Hopeton Harris never imagined he’d be a reggae music apostle in Japan. Like many expats who end up staying longer than expected (ahem!), Harris was a willing victim of happenstance. “I got asked to ...

When Japan was first introduced to reggae music there was something about the music and the lifestyle that really spoke to people - particularly in this Japanese city. Japan's initial fascination with ...

Jamaica competes directly with Hawaii, Guam, and Thailand for Japanese tourists. With a bit of reggae, great food, and an all-inclusive resort concept new to Japanese visitors, this is a new chapter ...

I didn't make the Chiefs game last night, as I was hanging out at the Corporate Challenge, where Michele Sardinia-Barker, Syracuse.com GM, took the prize for fastest time for a female senior exec.

A musical revolution in Jamaica has a connection with a bouncy rhythm from a portable electronic keyboard that’s the brainchild of a Japanese woman. The pattern that resonates in the 1985 reggae hit ...