Just met Junko Suzuki Parsons and her friends at Mari Kawawa’s fundraiser “Twilight COncert on the Bay”, Saturday, April 27th, 2013 in Tiburon, CA, featuring the Edgewood Trio. Junko’s team is helping promote the Kids Orchestra Japan Project, an exchange program of youths in Japan and the U.S. collaborating with music. Their goal is to connect the kids in the affected areas in the Tohoku area of Japan to help them through these challenging times. Will be updating more about their progress.
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Kids Orchestra Japan Project
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Nikkei Matsuri Presents An Evening of ‘Music From The Heart’
April 27, 2012, Friday
Nikkei Matsuri Presents An Evening of ‘Music From The Heart’
Featuring Ayako Hosokawa
7:00-9:00pm (Doors open at 6:30pm)
San Jose Buddhist Betsuin Gymnasium
As a well known vocalist in the Bay Area Japanese American community, Ayako shares her love of music and song with a variety of popular and contemporary American music that she has grown to love during her international music career. This evening, she will be accompanied by: Shota Okabe, Bob Kenmotsu, Ken Okada and Rich Alegria.
A portion of the concert proceeds will be donated to JCCCNC’s Northern Japan Earthquake Relief Fund. Tickets are $15 ($20 at the door) and are available from Nikkei Traditions-San Jose Japantown, Wesley Methodist Church, Yu Ai Kai and Nikkei Matsuri Board Members.
See: www.nikkeimatsuri.org
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Somei Yoshino Taiko, at the One Year After benefit concert, March 10, 2012
Photo by Bob Hsiang
Naoko Amemiya of Somei Yoshino Taiko performs at the One Year After benefit concert for the children of Tohoku, Japan, March 10, 2012 at the Mission San Jose in Fremont, CA
The concert, raising monies for the Smiles & Dreams: Tohoku Kids’ Support Project, featured Somei Yoshino Taiko in collaboration with the Music at the Mission Chamber Players.
A powerful, moving performance set in the beautiful, historic Mission San Jose, the community rallied together to make this a moving, momentous occasion.
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One Year After … A Benefit Concert for the Children of Tohoku, Japan
Help the children of Tohoku, Japan.
Donate at Give2Asia
One Year After … A Benefit Concert for the Children of Tohoku, Japan.
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1000 Cranes Project
1000 Crane Project in support of the March 10, 2012 “One Year After: A Benefit concert for the children of Tohoku, Japan” at the Mission San Jose in Fremont, CA.
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Julius Winegar, volunteer for Run for Japan
Run for Japan, Sunday, March 11, 2012
Shoreline Park, Mountain View, CA
http://www.runforjapanusa.com/
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Run for Japan. March 11, 2012
Tomo, one of the organizers for Run for Japan talks about the March 11, 2012 fundraiser at Shoreline, Mountain View, CA.
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Message to Japan
http://messagetojapan.sony.com/
Message to Japan, part of the Restart Japan Project.
http://www.savechildren.or.jp/restartjapan/donation/?lang=en
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Volunteer group gathers kimonos for coming-of-age ceremony in tsunami-hit area
December 13, 2011
A Jinrikitai member lays out a kimono to send to the Ogatsu area, in Yokohama’s Naka Ward, on Dec. 5. (Mainichi)
ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi — A volunteer organization in the Tokyo metropolitan area is offering a helping hand to people in a tsunami-hit district here by collecting unused kimonos to lend to women taking part in next month’s coming-of-age ceremony.
The organization, Jinrikitai, will provide the long-sleeved kimonos to women in the Ogatsu district of Ishinomaki. It is also seeking volunteers to help style the hair of ceremony participants, and calling on people to “celebrate the start of the new lives of the people who are coming of age, who will play an important part in restoration.”
According to the Ogatsu general branch of the Ishinomaki Municipal Government, some 80 percent of structures were destroyed when the tsunami hit the town on March 11, and the population, which previously stood at about 4,000, has shrunk to around 1,000.
About 55 people are expected to take part in the coming-of-age ceremony in the Ogatsu district on Jan. 8, including people who moved outside the district after the tsunami. Of these, around 30 are women. However, the devastation wrought by the tsunami halted the business of all kimono fabric stores and kimono rental stores in the district. Responding to the situation, Jinrikitai members joined hands with Ishinomaki’s Ogatsu general branch to provide kimonos enabling ceremony participants to dress up in traditional kimono attire free of charge.
“There might be some people who would refrain from taking part in the ceremony because they don’t have a kimono, so we’re grateful for this,” a local district official in charge of ceremony operations said.
The city is accepting applications from people who have no prospects of acquiring a kimono for the ceremony or getting help to have one fitted.
The ceremony will be held in a prefabricated meeting room next to a home for the elderly that the Ogatsu branch, whose offices were destroyed in the tsunami, is operating. Jinrikitai representative Yoshimi Kaneko, who operates an advertising agency in Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward, commented, “We want the young people who have a task of restoration ahead of them to take part in the coming-of-age ceremony in their hometown with a sense of hope. We ask for cooperation from people who have long-sleeved kimonos sitting in their closets.”
The volunteer organization also plans to help out coming-of-age participants in neighboring areas if they seek assistance, and is also accepting donations of small items such as hair accessories.
The organization plans to donate the kimonos to local stores after the ceremony, but it is also possible to return them to the owners. Information (in Japanese) is available on the Jinrikitai website at http://jinrikitai.web.fc2.com/ Telephone inquiries (in Japanese) can be made between 10 a.m. and 9 p.m. on 080-2255-3138.
(Mainichi Japan) December 11, 2011
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