Russia’s building market is still growing for Enka. Istanbul-based Enka Construction & Industry Co. Inc. is Turkey’s largest construction conglomerate, reaching that pinnacle with projects almost all ...

Reporting from Tokyo — — Looking back, says the pop singer called Jero, the songs were a soundtrack to his childhood, the strange and sorrowful melodies enjoyed by his Japanese-born grandmother — ...

WASHINGTONWASHINGTON — As a boy, Jerome White Jr. often spent weekends at his grandparents’ house, where a melodramatic genre of Japanese music called enka would waft in the background. White’s ...

Singer Aki Yashiro, the grand dame of Japanese enka ballads who had many big hits during her career spanning five decades, died Dec 30 of lung disease, her office said Wednesday. She was 73. Yashiro, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - As a boy, Jerome White Jr. often spent weekends at his grandparents’ house, where a melodramatic genre of Japanese music called enka would waft in the background. White’s Japanese ...