The concept of shovel shamisen sounds simple: just bang a shovel to the beat, although it actually takes a little more skill to pull off a decent performance. Not only do you need to have rhythm, but ...

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The instrument manufacturing company Marusan Hashimoto in the city of Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture, is very busy making strings for the shamisen, the koto and other instruments. Strings make sounds ...

In Abilene, Texas, some 1,500 people are building the first data center for the Stargate artificial-intelligence venture led by OpenAI. Once it is completed, a lot fewer people will work there ...

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This is a Japanese Tsugaru Shamisen, and today I am sharing what it is like to play it. I got my start 8 years ago under a duo known as The Yoshida Brothers, and today I want to share with you a ...