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 ...

Taiko drumming is said to have originated over 2,000 years ago in Japan, a celebrated performance style to enjoy. Here on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An ancient Japanese art form that connects people to their heritage with each pounding beat, taiko drumming was recently on full ...

It takes an intense full-body workout just to keep the rhythm of the drums going. Every hit sends a shock wave of noise that reverberates through the audience’s bones and around the packed auditorium.

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 ...

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, ...

For Ken Koshio, performing Japanese taiko drumming is tied to tradition, rock-and-roll roots, physical and mental well-being, and a passion for music. Originally from Japan, the Phoenix-based ...

"When it gets that intense, you get into a zone which has never happened before. There is a raw energy that Taiko has," Raiki Machida '07 recently told The Herald. Machida and Joshua Goldner '05 first ...

I took up Japanese taiko drumming because it looked fierce. Legs are planted wide as arms wield bachi drumsticks in broad arcs, striking barrel drums in communal precision. Everyone wears a scowl that ...