By KOTA KAWANO/ Staff Writer
October 9, 2023 at 17:16 JST
Musicians perform traditional South Korean “samul nori” percussion music and play Japanese taiko drums at the start of the Japan-South Korea Exchange Festival in Tokyo on Sept. 30. (Kota Kawano)
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