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Jocelyn Clark, an Alaska-born professor of East Asian studies at Pai Chai University in Daejeon, remembers the first time she heard a performance of the ...

The instrument manufacturing company Marusan Hashimoto in the city of Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture, is very busy making strings for the shamisen, the koto and other instruments. Strings make sounds ...