Welcome to our website! As we embark on our 30^th year in the record business (we’ve actually been around a lot longer than that), it is really because of your support and belief in our work that sustains us—we are truly grateful.  For those of you who may be less familiar with us, or who are simply curious about what a ‘Hiroshima’ is, we are an American band with roots in Japanese, Asian, Hawaii and pretty much all cultures—who are committed to the belief that cultural diversity is what makes our country great. As a consequence over 30 years ago June and I had a dream to create a musical voice that would reflect that belief. Danny soon joined us, and of the current band, Shoji is the new guy—and he’s been with us over 6 years.  Kimo, our musical anchor has been with us since the mid-80’s and Dean played on our first record.

We feature June who plays koto.  Many say she’s the best in the world.  No argument here.  Mostly she’s our visionary and keeps us on track in her very Japanese American way.  In fact we utilize a number of Japanese instruments including taiko and shakuhachi in a setting that can journey from jazz to Japanese to salsa and then R&B—sometimes all in the same song.  We have been described by Robin Millar (Sade’s producer) as Urban World Music.  We think it fits.

We’ve gone through many transformations, over 5 record labels, world tours, gold records, grammy nominations, and SO many different lead vocalists, that we’ve had 3 named Terry (all spelled differently).  You would think that is why most of our recent CD’s are instrumental, but it’s more because we’d never tried it, and it’s been pretty cool.  Our new CD, “Legacy” is a compilation of some of our favorite songs from our first ten years (5 records). We thought we should celebrate surviving 30 years in this bizarre industry somehow and some kind of ‘best of’ seemed appropriate—except we couldn’t decide on the songs.  So then we turned to you, and we truly appreciated the overwhelming response from you as to what should be our Top 10--but even then it was too tough to pick over 30 years, so we decided on our first decade—with the possibility of doing another retrospective project in the future. We are very happy with “Legacy” and ask that you check it out.  We basically recorded it live, and we think it reflects the 6 of us pretty well, and our guest vocalists and musicians contributed so much to the spirit of the record.

I think as you cruise our website you’ll find the quotes on “Legacy” fascinating--I know we were humbled by them and the reviews as well.  You can also buy it and most of our CD’s as well as June’s brilliant new project, “Under the Stars,” get recipes (all time tested by the band) photos and more. Speaking of photos we will soon have a photo gallery—photos by professional photographers who have taken so many of us over the years we thought we’d feature their work.

In any case this is a wrap for now. There will be much more on our website coming soon, so please visit when you have time—and please let your friends know as well.

By the way, though I’m famous for being inconsistent, I will attempt to update this homepage announcement frequently.  We want to get a ‘groove’ going with you all in terms of this internet communication thing, and humanity.  We hope you can get to know us a little better and help us transcend the technology--and get as close to simple dialogue as we can.

Peace, dan