On Luminescent Creatures, Aoba’s exquisite and entrancing eighth album, she and Umebayashi further broaden their horizons. It’s a sequel of sorts to Windswept Adan, taking its name from the ...

The doctor who treated the severe burns of convicted arsonist Shinji Aoba said he wants to continue thinking about the meaning of the life he saved. Aoba was sentenced to death on Jan. 25 for the ...

Japanese folk singer Ichiko Aoba released her eighth studio album, “Luminescent Creatures,” on Friday. Produced under Psychic Hotline and Aoba’s hermine labels, the album is a hypnotic wash of sound ...

Singer-songwriter Ichiko Aoba still remembers a dream where she broke into pieces. “I was experiencing sleep paralysis. My mind was moving, but I couldn’t move my body,” she tells The Japan ...

Shinji Aoba, the arsonist found guilty of killing 36 people in an attack on a Kyoto Animation Co. studio in 2019, made clear he is appealing the Jan. 25 death sentence simply to buy time to ...

Shinji Aoba is seen in Kyoto's Fushimi Ward in this May 27, 2020, file photo. (Mainichi/Tatsuya Fujii) OSAKA (Kyodo) -- A man convicted of the 2019 fatal arson attack on a Kyoto Animation Co ...

Japanese folk singer and songwriter Ichiko Aoba stunned a packed crowd into silence when she dropped in a calming and nuanced cover of Radiohead's "Creep" among a secret set on the piano stage at last ...