TSU, Mie Pref. (Kyodo News) Her family's playing of the traditional Peruvian folk song "El Condor Pasa" for a Japanese audience helps Rosa Ochante Muray keep her national identity alive.
Clad in a pink and green poncho, the 20-year-old student of Kyoto Notre Dame Women's College danced to the tune of the popular Andes folk song at a campus festival in the ancient capital last fall.
The hall echoed with excited shouts, and the low timbre of the "zampona," known locally as the "siku," a panpipe made from a bamboolike plant growing near the shores of high-altitude lakes.