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).

Akita Prefecture has Japan's most aged population, lowest birthrate and fastest declining population. Rigid gender roles are ...

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: ...

Gender inequality is accelerating young Japanese women's flight from rural areas to the cities, further depressing the country's already low birthrate.

Every year, The Game Awards orchestra — featuring the electrifying energy of Pedro Eustache, affectionately known as Flute Guy — performs songs from all the Game of the Year nominees. With Metaphor: ...