No, it's not an ad for domestic cleanser: "Toire no Kamisama" is a 10-minute acoustic elegy for Kana Uemura's grandmother, and quite possibly the sweetest thing you'll ever hear in a Kansai accent.

This plucky droid moves, speaks, projects images and delivers your beer. What more could you ask?

"Sayonara" features real android Geminoid F as the helper of a woman dying of radiation poisoning in a bleak future.

Oh no, say it ain't so! The 1970s answer to recording TV shows and movies is on its last film strip.

In a move that would have wowed Mr. Miyagi, this karate kid is throwing punches in Sia's newly released music video.

Swing by Kumu on the fifth floor of Terminal 1 to pick up your pear-shaped flying companion.

NekoPOP dives into the new album from Tigarah e Laura, a refreshingly badass Japanese singer who swings her sexuality around like a weapon on the dance floor.

Two albums to get the local treatment in support of a November European tour.