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 ...

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 ...

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 ...