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PJ Hirabayashi
Patti Jo "PJ" Hirabayashi is one of the pioneers of the North American Taiko movement. She serves as the Artistic Director and founding member of San Jose Taiko,〔(San Jose Taiko )〕 the third taiko group to form in the United States.〔Quelland, Sarah. “PJ Hirabayashi: Band the Drum” Metro (Silicon Valley’s Weekly Newspaper). October 10–16, 2002 Issue. Online Source: http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/10.10.02/best-hrabayashi-0241.html〕
==Personal life==
Patti Jo "PJ" Hirabayashi was born on May 18, 1950 in San Rafael, CA. PJ is a third-generation Japanese (Sansei) and was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area.〔"PJ Hirabayashi: Japanese Taiko and Kumidaiko." Alliance for California Traditional Arts. ()〕 As a child, PJ got involved in dance, studying styles such as tap, ballet, and acrobatics. She attended Irvington High School where she would study piano and guitar in addition to dance.
For college, she initially attended California State University, Hayward (CSU Hayward) where she majored in math for two years with the plan to become a computer analyst. PJ's years in college coincided with the Civil Rights Movement, which gained a lot of steam in colleges across the nation in terms of organized protest. While in college PJ began to become aware of the internment experience of WWII and of other injustices to people of color, and because of this she began to get involved in community activism and Asian American studies.〔PJ Hirabayashi. Online source: http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/people/profiles/57/〕 She then transferred to University of California, Berkeley with a Social Science major (a combination of ethnic studies, sociology, and psychology) where she focused on Asian-American studies. After obtaining her degree in Social Science from Berkeley, she spent a year in Japan before returning to San Jose to obtain a master's degree in Urban and Regional Planning from San Jose State University in 1977. Her master's thesis is on the preservation of San Jose's Japantown, and has become a widely used reference for research and for community action committees currently discussing the preservation of San Jose Japantown. In 1977-'79, she served as Acting Coordinator for "Asian American Communities" classes and supervisor for students gaining fieldwork experience in Asian American service organizations.
She began to get involved in the early formations of San Jose Taiko in 1973 through Roy Hirabayashi whom she met in 1969 during her years at CSU Hayward. They would eventually get married and become the leaders of San Jose Taiko, Roy as the managing director and PJ as the artistic director.
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