John Kaizan Neptune is one of the world's leading players of the shakuhachi, a type of Japanese bamboo flute. He talks about making his own instruments and what the shakuhachi can teach us about life.

But he was drawn to the bamboo flute. “As someone with a mixed Japanese background, you do start to wonder about the Japanese side of who you are,” he said. For him, playing shakuhachi was ...

The first non-Japanese to attain the rank of Grand Master of the shakuhachi bamboo flute, Riley Lee has been mesmerizing ...