NAGAHAMA, Shiga -- Production of silk strings for traditional Japanese instruments such as the shamisen and koto is at its seasonal peak in this western Japan town. At the workshop of Marusan ...

Composer Miya Masaoka has started playing the "Laser Koto," a futuristic version of the traditional Japanese stringed instrument, the Koto, that's been around since the 8th century. Masaoka outfitted ...

The Consulate General of Japan in Kolkata recently hosted four Japanese musicians and treated the audience of the city to traditional music at the Calcutta School of Music and Netaji Bhawan. We caught ...

Taiko is the most popular Asian instrument in America. There are more than a hundred taiko groups across the country, classes for kids and adult beginners, festivals, newsletters, even online stores.

When a guy playing a traditional Japanese instrument performs with a bunch of pickin’-and-grinnin’ American bluegrass musicians Sunday at the Commodore Theatre in Portsmouth, it won’t sound as weird ...