Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's ...

Growing up, family parties would wind down around our favorite special occasion appliance. My father clumsily ran cables from the karaoke machine into our television, transforming the living room into ...

Fifty years ago today, the No. 1 song in America was an import from Japan: a song about young love called "Sukiyaki," sung by Kyu Sakomoto. Ian Condry, who teaches Japanese culture at MIT, says ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In June 1963, a Japanese pop song soared to the top of America’s Billboard Hot 100 chart. More than 50 years later, ...

Personal stories exploring the strong emotional impact of the bittersweet 1960s Japanese hit song, Sukiyaki. From 2016. Show more Memories of a prison camp in the Arizona desert, a tsunami and a plane ...

Rokusuke Ei, who wrote the lyrics to the global hit “Sukiyaki” (“Ue o Muite Aruko“), passed away from pneumonia at his home on Thursday. He was 83. Born in Tokyo in 1933 and a graduate of Waseda ...

Memories of a prison camp in the Arizona desert, a tsunami and a plane crash are stirred by the bittersweet Japanese song Sukiyaki, a huge global hit of the 1960s. Originally released in Japan with ...