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Kyodo Taiko at UCLA

Jessica Wong (Kyodo Taiko - Jessica Wong)


Published: July 10, 2007 Modified: April 11, 2025

Jess was Kyodo External Director in 2006-2007, along with Janelle Lin. It was the year of re-invention, and re-invent we did.

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Kyodo Taiko - Jessica Wong

Jess was Kyodo External Director for 2006-2007 along with Janelle Lin. It was the year of re-invention, and re-invent we did.

[Kyodo Taiko at UCLA was the first collegiate taiko group to form in North America, founded under UCLA's Nikkei Student Union. Striving to live up to the group’s name, Kyodo Taiko functions as a family, sharing the joy and spirit of taiko with more and more of the surrounding community each year.]


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Kyodo Taiko at UCLA
Kyodo Taiko is my family, my home away from home. Kyodo was the first collegiate taiko group in the United States, and was started in 1990 by Mark Honda. "Kyodo" has two meanings, "family" and "loud children." The members definitely carry…
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