Japan’s position as a center for monozukuri has been weakening, against the backdrop of the remarkable growth of China, which has positioned manufacturing as a national priority. However, there are ...

Marco Lienhard moved from Switzerland to Japan just after he graduated high school — and it was there that he discovered the shakuhachi. “I was really taken by the sound it was creating, the ...

KINGSTON — Music from around the world is a mouse click away. For musician Jamie Orfanella, world music is in between his fingertips. Orfanella spent 10 years learning the art of the Japanese ...

Michael Chikuzen Gould enchants kids and parents each year with his performance on the shakuhachi flute at the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Malott Japanese Garden Children’s Festival. Gould will perform ...

The Japanese Cultural Fair will be hosting a fundraiser on Saturday with a concert at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center, featuring John Kaizan Neptune, a master of the shakuhachi (the Japanese bamboo flute).

Masakazu Yoshizawa, a musician best known for his mastery of traditional Japanese flutes who was featured on the “Memoirs of a Geisha” soundtrack, died Oct. 24 of stomach cancer at his San Gabriel ...

It’s difficult to describe the music of Kitaro, one of the leading architects of New Age music. But you know it when you hear it: the Zen-like wail of a Japanese flute, the pitter-patter of percussion ...

To composers Zach Johnston and Matteo Roberts, music is never an afterthought in storytelling. The duo, collectively known as Pep Magic, is behind the score of Netflix’s new animated series, “Oni: ...