But in the hands of the performers of Kodo, drums are not primitive but powerful — emotionally expressive and even spiritual.

Police are treating the case as abandonment of a corpse and are working to identify the body and cause of death.

Taiko simply means drum in Japanese, and performers use two main types. The first is made from a single, hollowed tree trunk with cow or horsehide nailed over each end. The second uses hide ...

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — More than 2,000 local 4th grade students were treated to a free performance of “Yamato: The Drummers of Japan” at the Coronado Performing Arts Center. The show was ...

The instrument is just one of the many types of drums used in the Japanese tradition of taiko. “This is a good demonstration of how we merge the Japanese drum with Hong Kong culture,” pointed ...

A traditional festival featuring decorative floats has opened in the central Japanese prefecture of Gifu. The Furukawa ...

The body of an unidentified elderly woman was found inside a drum at a recycling company in Yoshikawa City, Saitama Prefecture, on Friday. According to police, the body had been in the drum for some ...