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 ...

JOHNSON CITY, TN (WJHL) – Tonight the folks at Atlantic Ale House where treated to a little more than good food and a cold drink. The business was hosting a viewing of a documentary that was made when ...

Mipso, a North Carolina bluegrass band, travels halfway around the world in this charming documentary by Jon Kasbe. The band discovers a strong bluegrass scene within Japan, rife with virtuoso fiddle ...

In director James Payne’s film “Far Western,” Charlie Nagatani sings American country music at the bar he started in 1976 in Kumamoto, Japan. Nagatani sings with a Southern accent, along with his band ...

When a guy playing a traditional Japanese instrument performs with a bunch of pickin’-and-grinnin’ American bluegrass musicians Sunday at the Commodore Theatre in Portsmouth, it won’t sound as weird ...

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 ...

Japanese bluegrass band Bluegrass 45 finds cultural unity through their music in the South. Bluegrass 45, one of Japan’s first bluegrass bands, brings its unique sound to the American South. Through ...

The response to a quintet of Japanese men who love bluegrass and play it well is enthusiastic, with a little bit of bemusement and surprise. The band members seem to sense this, too. Pressed to try to ...

Akira Otsuka sat on the front row. Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs played for just over an hour on that March day in 1968 in Osaka, Japan. Otsuka lapped up every second. “Dream come true,” said Otsuka, ...

Johnson City, Tenn. - Bluegrass bands all across America are on tour this summer, but the East Tennessee State University Bluegrass Pride Band will take their music across the world to Japan.