This group of ladies represent the Kyodo class of 2004! From back to front: Aya Ino, Hitomi Kubo, Janelle Lin, Candice Shikai, Erin Cavenaugh, Jess Wong.

[Kyodo Taiko at UCLA was the first collegiate taiko group to form in North America, founded under UCLA's Nikkei Student Union. Striving to live up to the group’s name, Kyodo Taiko functions as a family, sharing the joy and spirit of taiko with more and more of the surrounding community each year.]