Arguably the world’s biggest and longest-running J-Pop group, Perfume has seemingly done it all. The band – featuring a-chan, KASHIYUKA, and NOCCHi – has gone multi-platinum many times over, played ...

Perfume is a trio of former classmates: Kashino Yuka (Kashiyuka), Nishiwaki Ayaka (Ā-chan), and Ōmoto Ayano (Nocchi). Kashiyuka and Ā-chan were attending Actors School Hiroshima, a talent-training ...

Renowned for their futuristic sound and the enhanced reality of their hologram-heavy performances, Hiroshima’s Perfume have transcended the boundaries of J-pop. Yuka “Kashiyuka” Kashino, Ayaka “A-Chan ...

Ayano Omoto (Nocchi), a member of the techno pop unit Perfume, was born on September 20, 1988, in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture. She was a member of the first class of Actors School Hiroshima ...

This Coachella, the girl group Perfume is making history by becoming the first J-pop girl group to perform at the event, taking the stage on both Apr. 14 and 21. But besides carving space for J-pop at ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Songs like Flash and Chocolate Disco are sort of quintessentially ...

Perfume, a popular Japanese pop girl group, has been active in the industry for over 25 years, has officially announced that they will be going on a hiatus. The group consists of three members, and ...

Japanese pop trio Perfume has been making music together since they were young teenagers in the early 2000s — now, nearly two decades into their landmark career, the group is performing at Coachella ...