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Thirteen local children from grades five to seven received shouts of encouragement as they performed Kanjincho, one of the most popular kabuki plays, in front of a full house at the All-Japan Children's Kabuki Festival (the site is in Japanese) held in Komatsu City, Ishikawa Prefecture, on May 12 and 13. Kabuki performed by adults is a form of traditional Japanese drama featuring male actors who mostly come from kabuki acting families, but children's kabuki is open to anyone in the community, both girls and boys.

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NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) is giving schoolchildren an opportunity to learn the basics of how to produce television programs.

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Japanese middle school students in Osaka Prefecture and enrollees in a British high school overcame cultural and geographical differences recently to put on a play together using a videoconference system.

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On the evenings of September 15 and 16, elementary and middle school students led performances of Anori Bunraku, a style of Japanese puppet theater that has a history of over 400 years and has been designated as an important national cultural treasure. Although they are children, the students are all accomplished puppeteers. Every year on these dates, the traditional art is performed at Anori Shrine in Ago, Mie Prefecture, during the shrine's annual festival. Ago is a town located at the tip of Shima Peninsula, 80 kilometers south of Nagoya.

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Exactly five months after the end of the soccer World Cup, which was hosted jointly by Japan and South Korea, another World Cup was held in Japan: the Daidogei World Cup in Shizuoka 2002 (Daidogei means "street performance" in Japanese). This World Cup brought together 123 competitors from 15 countries around the world. Instead of soccer players, they were made up of 77 teams of street entertainers, including jugglers, magicians, acrobats, and mime artists.

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The largest wadaiko, or Japanese drum, ever to be built was completed in August for an exhibition at a museum in Takayama, Gifu Prefecture. The barrel-shaped drum has a head with a diameter of over 2 meters (6 1/2 feet), 6 centimeters (2 3/8 inches) bigger than the previous record holder, a drum kept at a Tokyo shrine.

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Fifteen elementary and middle school children in Tokyo recently met to discuss plans for television programs that they are producing on their own for the Children's Broadcasting Station, supervised by the Ministry of Education. The station went on the air in September.

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Dance has a long history in Japan and encompasses many forms. The dances performed in kabuki plays are called Nihon buyo (Japanese dance) and are widely enjoyed not just by professional actors but ordinary people, who learn them as a hobby. This article introduces a girl studies and performs Japanese dance.

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A group of 30 children from Okinawa flew to the United States in April to show their traditional performing arts skills in Washington as part of the city's Sakura (cherry blossom) Festival.

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This article highlights the story of a popular jazz band made up of elementary school children from the Tohoku region of Japan. It tells of how their band was formed and introduces some of their performances.

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Tradition Goes Hi-Tech | Arts and Entertainment | Trends in Japan | Web Japan
The National Noh Theater in Tokyo's Sendagaya district has become the first such establishment in Japan to introduce a system for displaying both Japanese and English subtitles at each individual seat.

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A pair of Japanese comic performers known as Gamarjobat is currently winning fans all over the world. While still relatively unknown in Japan, they often perform overseas to rave reviews and have even won awards at arts festivals in Britain and other countries.

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