Hiromichi Okazaki - tabla (Osaka - my Guru-bhai!)

Fueya Kangiten - bansuri player, Taro Terahara's Indian classical music site

Yasuhiro Minamizawa - sitar (Kyoto)

Mari Komuro - santoor (Nagoya)

Setsuo "Jimi" Miyashita - santoor (Gifu - student of Pt. Shiv Kumar Sharma)

Kouki Yoshida - sitar (Nagoya)

Tadao Ishihama - sitar (Osaka)

Hide Iwai (blog) - sitar (Kyushu)

Carlos Guerra - bansuri (Kyoto)

Nobuo Sugimoto - sitar (Nagoya)

Junichi Osako - sitar (Osaka)

Taka Kurihara - sitar, vocals, electronica (Tokyo)

Yasu Fujibayashi - sarod (Kyoto)

Amit Roy - sitar (Nagoya - Japan's leading sitariya)

Dr. Chandrakant Sardeshmukh - sitar (Tokyo, also often tours Australia)

Keiku - Indian vocal (Tokyo - student of Smt. Veena Sahasrabuddhe)

Yoshida Daikichi - sitar (Tokyo)

Koro Ito - sitar (Tokyo)

Takashi Kougo - esraj (Tokyo)

T M Hoffman - Hindustani vocal/shakuhachi/koto (Kanto)

Keisuke Muto - sitar (Tokyo - student of Pt. Manilal Nag)

Kenji Inoue - sitar (Tokyo)

Aki Ueda - sitar (Kyoto - student of U. Shujaat Hussein Khan )

Minehiko Tanaka - sitar (Osaka)

Teiju Kato - sitar (Tokyo - student of Pt. Manilal Nag)

Shuhei Ozaki - sitar (Kansai)

Hiroshi Nakagawa - bansuri (Kobe - student of Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia)

Kul Bhushan Bhargava - tabla (Kobe)

Kenji Sakasegawa - tabla (Tokyo)

Dinesh Chandra - tabla (Tokyo)

U-Zhaan - tabla (Tokyo)

Segawa U-K-O - tabla (Tokyo)

Yuji Hiromoto - tabla (Osaka)

Tetsuya Kaneko - pakhawaj (Nagoya)

Shree (aka Mariko Katsura) - Dhrupad vocal and sacred chanting

Eiji Sakura - sarod (Tokyo)

Atsuko Maeda - Kathak dance (Tokyo)

Mayumi Fukushima - Odissi Dance (Tokyo)

Sachiko Murakami - Odissi dance (Kansai)

Studio Odissi - Kazuko Yasunobu's Odissi dance studio (Tokyo)

Kannagi - Miyuki's Bharat Natyam dance studio (Tokyo)

Masako Ono 's Odissi dance studio (Tokyo)

Kathak Miyabi - Kathak dancer Masako Sato (Tokyo)

Mbira Zvakanaka - Mbira (Tokyo)

Maya Muga Moeran - Keyboards, tabla, ambient music (Tokyo)

Mandala World Music - World music jam band (Kyoto)

Kawagishi Hilo - Kora/kalimba (Tokyo)

Karin - koto, vocals (Tokyo)

Junzo Tateiwa - percussion (incl. tabla) (Tokyo)

Dolomites Muzik - Romanian-Japanese Gypsy music

Tsunemi Yuji - Oud (Tokyo)

Rain in Eden - a fusion of electronic music with traditional ethnic instruments and influences from Japan, China and others

John Neptune - shakuhachi fusion exponent (Tokyo)

Tenkoo Orchestra - World music/rock fusion group, including Yasuhiro Minamizawa on sitar

Kodo Drummers - Legendary Taiko drumming group, including Earth Celebration

Rodrigo Rodriguez - Composer, Producer, Multi-instrumentalist based in Japan

Hikaru Komamura - Jazz guitar (Tokyo)

Christopher Fryman - Trumpet (Kyoto)

Take Bow - Experimental jazz/blues guitar (Kyoto)

The Hyotan Philharmonic - "Fantastic Gourd Orchestra"

Charly Noro - "Will play anywhere except underwater, due to danger of electrocution."

Earthlingz - Web site for The Greenhouse, venue of excellent ethno-ambient parties

Dakini Records - "Sky Dancer's Chill-out Room"

Otoya-Kintoki - Tokyo live house

Space Cake - Ueno cafe/head shop with occasional live music

CoZmo's Cafe - Shibuya cafe

Rakudoan - Tokyo studio for introducing alternative performing arts

Salon de Amanto - Osaka live house

Kanadian - Osaka live house

TranqRoom - Kyoto art gallery, music venue and restaurant/bar

KyoRyuKan - Kyoto arts and cultural centre

ArtsyBugs - Creative Social Circle, monthly event in Tokyo