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KANO MIYU Joins the Japanese Artist Lineup for Change Street

Published 2025-12-19 · Updated 2026-10-25 · CROSSWAVE EDITION

Joining the second Japanese artist lineup for ENA and Fuji TV’s Change Street

KANO MIYU has joined the Japanese artist lineup for Change Street, the music program jointly produced by ENA and Fuji TV. The format brings singers working in different countries into contact with the other country’s streets and language through performance. Following TROT GIRLS JAPAN and her Korean television appearances, it gives Miyu another setting in which to share her singing alongside Japanese and Korean artists.

Change Street is a large-scale music variety project conceived to mark 60 years of diplomatic relations between Korea and Japan. Artists representing both countries visit each other’s cities and exchange their languages, sensibilities and music. Beyond a competition or a succession of stages, the project focuses on how music connects through streets, people and culture.

A rising artist selected: attention turns to Miyu’s background

The second Japanese lineup included prominent singer-songwriter miwa, alongside the rising vocalist KANO MIYU. Relatively early in her career by years since debut, Miyu’s inclusion has been seen as more than a casting choice: it symbolically reflects the direction of the program.

In Japan, Miyu has rapidly built recognition on social media and TikTok through a polished vocal tone and assured live singing. Yet one reading of the background to her selection places particular weight on her musical activity connecting Korea and Japan, rather than her Japanese work alone.

From TROT GIRLS JAPAN to Hanil Top Ten Show: a working bridge between the countries’ music

KANO MIYU first became widely known through the Japanese program TROT GIRLS JAPAN. After recognition there for her vocal approach and musical possibilities, she expanded onto Korean television stages, reaching another turning point.

In Korea, she performed both Japanese popular songs and Korean repertoire on programs including Hanil Top Ten Show. A singer working in Japan performing another language’s repertoire on Korean television has a connection with Change Street’s street-performance format. That history can help us understand the context of her appearance, but it cannot establish the production team’s actual reasons for casting her.

These experiences help frame her as more than an artist traveling between Korea and Japan: she is a bridge that has actively connected the two music markets. That intersects directly with the program’s concept of reciprocal exchange and crossing sensibilities.

The strength of experience on Korean stages

Korean television appearances and Seoul concerts offered different routes to Korean audiences. A broadcast delivers songs through a chosen frame and editing, while a concert shares time with listeners gathered before the stage. In a program that changes the streets where artists sing, viewers can consider how established repertoire sounds in a different space.

A new generation represented on Change Street

Shin Dong-yup and TVXQ’s U-KNOW Yunho hosted. Fuji TV introduced the program as a joint production commemorating 60 years of diplomatic relations. With artists of different backgrounds taking part in the same performance format, the useful question becomes less the size of each name than the songs and attitudes each brings to the street.

More than a glamorous résumé or long career, it is the experience of actually performing and meeting audiences in both countries—and communicating through music across languages and borders—that has been seen as making her suited to this project.

Streets and people connected through music

At the time, ENA’s Korean slot was announced for Saturday, December 20, at 21:30. Japan’s schedule was different. Fuji TV’s official November 28, 2025 announcement specified Friday, December 19, at 26:45—in calendar terms, Saturday, December 20, at 02:45—in the Kanto region, followed immediately by release on FOD. The earlier description of simultaneous broadcasts at the same time in both countries is corrected here by distinguishing the broadcasters’ schedules.

Beyond the label of newcomer, KANO MIYU has already accumulated stage experience linking Japan and Korea. Her path may become a particularly immediate example of the cultural exchange Change Street seeks to present.

Fuji TV’s official production and scheduling announcement ↗ Official sis appearance announcement ↗