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Johnny Mori
Johnny Mori is a third-generation (Sansei) Japanese American musician and arts educator/administrator from Los Angeles. He was one of the seminal members of the taiko group Kinnara Taiko and the original taiko drummer for the Grammy nominated jazz-fusion band Hiroshima. Personal life Mori was born in 1949 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He grew up in a primarily Japanese American community in southwest Los Angeles and attended Los Angeles High School. He formerly worked as the general manager of the Aratani/ Japan America Theatre at the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center (JACCC) in Los Angeles. Taiko Mori was surrounded by taiko from his childhood days, often seeing taiko being performed at Obon Festivals in Los Angeles and around Southern California. It wasn't until much later that Mori would begin playing taiko. In 1969, Reverend Masao "Mas" Kodani founded Kinnara Taiko, the second kumi-daiko group to be founded in North America. Kodani, Mori and the other seminal m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Utah
Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to its west by Nevada. Utah also touches a corner of New Mexico in the southeast. Of the fifty U.S. states, Utah is the 13th-largest by area; with a population over three million, it is the 30th-most-populous and 11th-least-densely populated. Urban development is mostly concentrated in two areas: the Wasatch Front in the north-central part of the state, which is home to roughly two-thirds of the population and includes the capital city, Salt Lake City; and Washington County in the southwest, with more than 180,000 residents. Most of the western half of Utah lies in the Great Basin. Utah has been inhabited for thousands of years by various indigenous groups such as the ancient Puebloans, Navajo and Ute. The Spanish were the first Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sansei
is a Japanese and North American English term used in parts of the world such as South America and North America to specify the children of children born to ethnic Japanese in a new country of residence. The ''nisei'' are considered the second generation; grandchildren of the Japanese-born immigrants are called ''Sansei''; and the fourth generation is called '' yonsei''. The children of at least one ''nisei'' parent are called ''Sansei'' and are usually the first generation of whom a high percentage are mixed race since their parents were usually themselves born and raised in America. The character and uniqueness of the ''sansei'' is recognized in its social history. In various countries Although the earliest organized group of Japanese emigrants settled in Mexico in 1897,Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) ''Japan-Mexico Relations'' retrieved 2011-05-17 the four largest populations of Japanese and descendants of Japanese immigrants are in Brazil, the United States, Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
