Japan's love affair with the genre began with brothers Yasushi and Hisashi Ozaki, who formed the country's first bluegrass duo in 1957. Today,... Meet The Musicians Behind Japan's Vibrant Bluegrass ...

Mixing traditional Japanese music and American bluegrass sounds as appetizing as a plate of sushi and grits. Once you get a taste of it, though, you'll want seconds. Takeharu Kunimoto plays the ...

Saburo "Sab" Watanabe Inoue, Chien-Hua Lee, Hsueh-Cheng "Ryo" Liao, Akira Otsuka, Tsuyoshi "Josh" Otsuka and Toshio Watanabe make up Bluegrass 45, a pioneering Japanese bluegrass band that marks its ...

Bluegrass musicians traveling in Japan were shocked to see how they were treated. Bluegrass musicians traveling in Japan were shocked to see how they were treated: like "rock gods," continually ...

Seventy years after the U.S. occupation of Japan, a devoted group of Japanese musicians pursue their passion for American country and bluegrass music in honky-tonks from Tokyo to Nashville. Far ...

To many Americans, certain cultural markers are ours and ours alone: stars ‘n’ stripes, pickup trucks, Budweiser, hot dogs, front porch pickin’ and grinnin’. But Far Western, a documentary about ...