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ON THURSDAY NIGHT, Nov. 16, 2017, I had a date with my cousin, Diane, to see Kuniko Fukushima sing and play the piano at the Royal …
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The Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 had immediate repercussions for Japanese Americans living throughout the nation—not least the Issei and Nisei civilians …
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Little Tokyo, 1989 One night, Mario Martinez, a struggling musician from Boyle Heights, was sitting in a booth at the Atomic Café in Little Tokyo …
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Is Japanese Canadian Bernie Arai a pioneering jazz drummer? Answering this question during a recent interview, he was quick to say: “I don’t think of …
Ninjas? Check! Fetching tunes? Check! Insanely talented musicians? Check! Taiko drums? Why not? So goes the story of Random Ninjas, an LA-based band that plays …
Read Part 1 >> How did you join the Kodo drummers on Sadogashima? I first saw Kodo perform at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto in …
Read Part 1 >> Do you listen to American music, and who are some of your favorite composers, and groups? Yes! Of course, I love …
With the producer’s special approval, I was allowed into the private recording session for a new pop song written by Masanori Takumi, a well-known songwriter, …
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Read Part 1 >> Were you ever drawn to any other traditional Japanese instruments like the taiko? Well, it looks to me that today’s taiko …
While I have never met Takeo Yamashiro in person, he seems familiar to me in a way that good friends are even the first time …
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