Tohoku artists give performance at U.N. headquarters

Tohoku artists give performance at U.N. headquarters

NEW YORK, United States - A ''wadaiko'' drumming performance by a group named Ondeko-za plays at the United Nations headquarters in New York on March 5, 2012. A group of traditional artists from Japan, mostly from the quake-hit Tohoku region in the country's northeast, gave performances in a show of solidarity with disaster victims around the world.

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