Toshiko Akiyoshi Smithsonian Interview Block 70 (Q18023)

No, it isnt. Because Japanese school, the music class, is all Western. I remember when (we were) in grammar school, there was "Home on the Range" (laughs), things like that were in the book. And everything was European, Western. If you were interested in learning some Japanese music or dancing, you had to do outside-of-school activity, which my second sister did.