YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — Drums in Japan called troops to battle, drove vermin from rice paddies and communicated with the divine. A U.S. Navy warship recently borrowed a distinctly Japanese drum ...

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According to a long-time member of Taiko, Joshua Lau ’26, these three words encapsulate the student group. Taiko is an ancient Japanese drum tradition dating back to the sixth century C.E., and it has ...

Stuck in bed most days due to an ongoing medical condition and paralyzed from the chest down, I don’t have a lot of options for cardio exercise. Hand bikes, weights, and tension bands are boring. You ...

Eva Nagase remembers well the beating of taiko drums reverberating through the air like “background music” during her childhood in Japan. “Every summer, my parents brought me back to Japan to spend ...

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Taiko no Tatsujin, known as Taiko Drum Master internationally, is a rhythm game that’s simple to learn but tough to master. It seems like it’ll be so easy when you see that there are only four ...

In 2017, drum and Japanese music enthusiasts were excited to learn that electronic instrument maker Roland had teamed up with internationally renowned taiko performance art group Kodo on an electronic ...