Iwaki, Fukushima, Japan — Graduation day dawned sunny and beautiful at Toyoma Junior High, and the 47 members of the senior class were in a buoyant mood. Just being at Toyoma Junior High was a day at ...

Moe Miura, left, is seen playing the piano donated to her, alongside her teacher Yoshie Takahashi, in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on Feb. 11, 2021. (Mainichi/Hinako Kikuchi) A ...

The world’s biggest piano maker is not Steinway, Winter or Wurlitzer, but a relatively unknown Japanese company named Nippon Gakki that won its for tune during World War II by making airplane ...

WARSAW--More than a half century after Mitsuko Uchida’s feat in 1970, Japan-born pianist Kyohei Sorita seemed unable to comprehend when he heard his name called out at the 18th International Chopin ...

Japan's first toy-piano concert by accomplished Japanese pianists will be held in Tokyo on Sept. 29. Ranging from 10 to 37 keys and primarily designed as educational tools for small children, toy ...

One night in a Japanese jazz kissa changed music listening for me forever. My love for the jazz piano trio began in the most unique way possible. Every now and then, a listening session turns into ...

YAMAGATA -- Two pianos damaged in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, the day the U.S. military dropped an atomic bomb on the city, were played as part of a concert for peace in this northwestern Japan city on ...