Jason Osajima is a recent Kyodo graduate, and composer of "Yonsei." Here, he speaks of the idea behind the hit, and the meaning that he hopes the song will convey.

[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.]