Still in use, but seeing few passengers and even fewer staff. The Shamisen girls (ki&ki) explore this unique setting while creating a music video. The surprising trend shaking up the Trump ...

Since debuting with her 1976 album JAPANESE GIRL, Yano Akiko has been a trailblazer ... Agatsuma Hiromitsu, a renowned shamisen virtuoso, has been redefining "tradition and innovation" through ...

One day in the late 1960s, a 16-year-old American girl called Liza Dalby was walking down a street in Saga, a city in southern Japan, when she heard the music of the shamisen for the first time.

Shamisen tones, filled with emotion, harmonize with the culture of traditional entertainment districts. The dwindling number of musicians has aroused the effort to keep the instrument and music ...

George had also heard about me, that there was a Japanese girl playing the shamisen on the street. Finally, we met in that grocery store—I went up and asked, ‘Are you George?’ And started ...

HACHINOHE, Aomori -- A local university professor here has developed software to automatically record shamisen performances -- usually only passed down by word of mouth -- to sheet music.