Lavish floats carrying girls in kimono and musicians playing flutes, taiko drums and shamisen parade along streets in a traditional event heralding the arrival of spring in Oshu, Iwate Prefecture. The ...

Fela came up with all his drum patterns. We saw it. “I was a child, a teenager, a man, we saw Fela do it. Fela wrote all his patterns. I keep telling them, why didn’t Tony Allen tell us which ...

Hyogo Prefecture (兵庫県) stretches from the Sea of Japan in the north to the Seto Inland Sea in the south, offering a rich mix ...