South Koreans who secretly loved Japanese pop songs in their youth are now reveling in nostalgia, as the renewed popularity of Showa-retro tunes from the 1970s and ’80s sparks a new era of cultural ...

Sultry-voiced Aki Yashiro, beloved as the “queen of enka” (Japanese ballads), died of rapidly progressive interstitial pneumonia on Dec. 30, her office announced on Jan. 9. She was 73.