ennichi ’25 Shows Why Japanese Music’s Global Moment Is Only Getting Bigger

From high-energy performances to cultural immersion, the two-day LA event highlights the artists and trends driving Japan’s ...
Variety

‘Shogun’ Composers Spent More Than Two Years Composing Four Hours of Music

FX’s acclaimed miniseries “Shōgun,” now nearing its halfway point, sports a score quite unlike Maurice Jarre’s music for the 1980 original adaptation. While utilizing authentic Japanese instruments, ...
Case Western Reserve University

A Performance of Japanese Drums and Traditional Japanese Music featuring Yume Daiko

Yume Daiko is a Japanese Drum group that practices and performs rhythms based on traditional and modern taiko music. Tune in to watch the ensemble perform and teach more about the culture behind the ...
Los Angeles Times

How do you bridge a cultural divide? Listen to Toru Takemitsu’s ‘November Steps’

In the early 1980s, a British writer living in Japan decided that, as a Westerner, he couldn’t understand Japan unless he walked its 2,000-mile length. As Alan Booth recounted in his marvelous book ...