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February 2012

JETAA DC Chapter Members Help Bring Fukushima Kids to Perform in Washington

The Yamakiya drummers meeting with Ambassador John Roos before leaving for Washington. The National Cherry Blossom Festival and the Japan-America Society of Washington DC have invited 13 students from the Yamakiya Taiko Club in Fukushima to perform at the centennial celebrations for Japan’s gift of flowering cherry trees to the United States. The students will travel to Washington from their new, post-evacuation homes in Japan, after being forced to leave their hometown of Yamakiya, part of Kawamata Town in Fukushima Prefecture, in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. They will be in Washington from April 7th to the 17th, and will perform at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage on… Read More »JETAA DC Chapter Members Help Bring Fukushima Kids to Perform in Washington