Kodo – the world’s foremost professional taiko company, which has played a major role in popularizing modern taiko drumming – will present its newest program, DADAN, across the United States for the ...

Sado, Japan, is not an easy trip. After a 14-hour flight to Tokyo, you’ll have to hop a two-hour bullet train ride followed by a two-and-a-half-hour ferry trip to get there. But on this isolated ...

Train horns blaring as they passed by were not the only loud sound booming around the Dixon Library on Wednesday morning. The Japanese Taiko Drum also echoed throughout the downtown area thanks to a ...

Bored of the Midwest? Then perhaps it’s time for a little vacation — and what better destination is there than Japan? It can’t possibly be too hard to plan a little trip out east. Well, it turns out ...

An ancient Japanese art form that connects people to their heritage with each pounding beat, taiko drumming was recently on full display at the 46th annual Nikkei Matsuri Festival in San Jose's ...

KAHULUI -When Hisakatsu Yokoyama wrote his name and date last week in the taiko drum body he donated to a Maui taiko group, it marked another link in the Maui-Japan connection forged through taiko ...

Many theories exist to explain the popularity of Japanese taiko drumming. Moe Niiyama, a member of Kodo, a professional taiko drumming troupe from Japan, ascribes to one in particular. “It’s said the ...

Many churches will mark Easter today with full-voiced choirs, brass ensembles and mighty organs, but a church in Little Tokyo will celebrate the holiest day on the Christian calendar with a thundering ...

A Japanese traditional drum-maker Wednesday put the final nails into a taiko drum he donated to Maui Taiko last year. Hisakatsu Yokoyama, from a town in quake-tsunami ravaged Fukushima prefecture, ...

We meet Natalie Hudson, who’s part of Kaminari Taiko, an ensemble that performs Japanese drums. Michael Hagerty is the senior producer for Houston Matters. He's spent more than 20 years in public ...

The city of Davis is offering a children’s beginning taiko drumming class and an intermediate drumming class, both beginning Friday, Jan. 10. The beginner class is open to children ages 8 to 12 years ...