by Peter | Sep 4, 2012 | News
Guests at the opening ceremony enjoy the classical sounds of an antique fortepiano Aiming to extend and improve its activities, the Min-On Concert Association newly dedicated a western Japan branch of the Min-On Music Museum in the international city of Kobe in Hyogo...
by Peter | Sep 4, 2012 | Japanese Arts, News, Performing Arts
Hanayakara The islands of Okinawa are surrounded by beautiful ocean and blessed with a superb natural environment. The islands were once a small independent nation called the Ryukyu Kingdom, where since ancient times a unique culture had developed with distinctive...
by Peter | Sep 4, 2012 | News, Outreach, Tohoku Hope Concert
Members of the a cappella group INSPi performing at a school in Tohoku More than a year has passed since the great earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the northeastern coastal areas of the Tohoku region in Japan. Since then, hundreds of thousands of people in the...
by Peter | Mar 15, 2012 | Features
Students from around the world onstage in Osaka On December 4, 2011, 87 international students from 19 countries and regions studying at universities and colleges in the greater Kansai area gathered in the grand concert hall of the Osaka International House...
by Peter | Mar 15, 2012 | Features
Poster welcoming visitors to the Asakusa Opera exhibition July 30, 2012 marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Taisho (“period of great righteousness”) era in Japan. This all-too-brief period of Japanese history followed the chaotic...
