NEW YORK — As a pop singer in Japan, TiA landed a recording contract when she was 16. She released a single and an album when she was 17, and another single when she was 18. But she started burning ...
TUSCALOOSA | In the “land of the rising sun,” Christianity is a religion practiced by few. About 2 percent of Japan’s population is Christian, according to the CIA World Factbook. The overwhelming ...
In a country where the estimated number of Christians are less than one per cent and the rest are either Shinto or Buddhist, native Jamaican Olivia Carter has been shining her light around Japan ...
Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from ...
Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from ...
It isn’t certain how Japanese Gospel Choirs got started, although some point to the 1992 movie “Sister Act.” But the phenomenon has stretched all across Japan in the last quarter century, with entire ...
In the choir division of a major gospel event, held in New York in May 2025, TiA led a group of 86 Japanese singers to victory. She tells us about the significance of gospel music.