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Sunday, June 3
Oh-In Taiko performance -Tsunami Fundraiser
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OH-IN Taiko and Jimi Nakagawa will be performing this coming Sunday, 6/3 for Tsunami Fundraiser at Walnut Creek United Methodist Church! Please come join us!
<Place> Walnut Creek United Methodist Church
1543 Sunnyvale Avenue, Walnut Creek, CA 94597
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*12:00-12:05 kick off taiko by Shohei Takani & Jimi Nakagawa
*13:00- taiko performance by OH-IN taiko
Friday April 27
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.
Saturday, March 24
The Chicago Botanic will host “Resilience: Lessons from Japan” from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at 1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, Ill. Program will discuss how Japan’s traditions, teachings and cultural arts can “strengthen the human spirit.” Highlights: dance, taiko and garden-inspired lectures. Presenters: Fujima Shunojo, founder and master teacher of Fujima Ryu of Chicago, Tatsu Aoki, artistic director and executive producer of Tsukasa Taiko, Calvin Manshio, attorney and principal of Manshio Law Firm, P.C., Dennis Makishima, master bonsai and tree pruner, wellness consultant and Chicago Botanic Garden volunteer Donna Kobayashi. Register for the free program: http://www.chicagobotanic.org. Parking: $20 for non-members. Info: (847) 835-5440.
Through Sunday, March 25
Transformer, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit and DanDans, a Tokyo-based artist collective, present “2:46 and thereafter,” an exhibition (Pepco Edison Place Art Gallery, at 701 Ninth St., NW, Washington, D.C) that highlights 18 emerging Japanese artists’ responses to the disasters. Closing reception includes a performance by On Megumi Akiyoshi, and will take place Saturday, March 24, from 6 to 8 p.m. Gallery’s hours: Tuesday through Friday, noon to 4 p.m., Thursdays, noon to 7 p.m., Saturday, March 10, 17 and 24, noon to 4 p.m. and Sunday, March 25, noon to 4 p.m. Info: (202) 483-1102 or www.transformerdc.org/exhibitions/overview/246-and-thereafter.
Tuesday, March 27
Shige Higashi, publisher of Cultural News will be featured at the Nibei Foundation’s Japan Study Club’s “Tohoku Report: People and Lives in One Year after the Disaster,” at the Terasaki Foundation Laboratory Building, 11570 West Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles at 7:30 p.m. Reception and dinner will start at 6:30 p.m. Admission includes dinner; costs $10 per person. RSVP by Friday, March 23; www.nibei.org or (310) 479-6101 ext. 134.
Every Week
Japanese Earthquake Relief Efforts: Tsunami Sushi and Nihon Sake Donation> Tsunami Panhandle Tsunami sushi at both the Panhandle and Mission Bay locations will give 10 percent of Japanese sake bottle sales to help Japan. Restaurant Nihon will also contribute 10 percent of sales from Japanese whiskey bottles. This will go on indefinitely. 1306 Fulton (at Divisadero) San Francisco, CA 94117 | Haight/ Fillmore | 567-7664 Map | http://www.dajanigroup.net
San Francisco Japantown Community Interfaith Service – “Our Hearts to Japan” – Monday, April 11, 2011, 5.30-6.30PM, SF Japantown Peace Plaza, Post & Buchanan Streets.
Contact JCCCNC at 1-415-567-5505, info@jcccnc, http://www.jcccnc.org
Organized by the Japanese American Religious Federation (JARF) and JCCCNC with supporting organizations.
JAPAN RESTART
A Benefit Concert for The Northern Japan Earthquake Relief Fund
Saturday, April 16, 2011
12 – 2 pm & 3 – 5 pm
Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
1881 Post Street, SF
Tickets $30
Survivors of the Northern Japan earthquake and tsunami still endure under devastating conditions. We are a group of artists coming together to do what we can for Japan. Our internationally renowned cast of musicians, performers and spirited volunteers have come together to create this once in a lifetime benefit concert.
Come see the show and gather as a community to help JAPAN RESTART.
Seating is limited for two different back-to-back shows. 100% of the proceeds will go to the Northern Japan Earthquake Relief Fund. Additional donations gratefully accepted.
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More info: http://www.crosswatermedia.com/japanrestart
FacebookJapan Restart @japanrestart
Show #1: 12 – 2pm
Yaelisa & Caminos Flamencos featuring Jason McGuire (El Rubio) & Jose Cortes (Gypsy singer from Spain)
Van-Anh Vo – Vietnamese National champion on dan tranh
Mark Izu, Brenda Wong Aoki & Shinji Eshima
Hideo Date Sextet – featuring Masaru Koga, Khac Quan, Claire Tremblay, Jason Jong and Keiji Oshita
Taiko Ren
Studio M from Japan
Somei Yoshino Taiko Ensemble
ScoJourners
Navarrete x Kajiyama Dance Theater
Kiite Moraitai
RJ
Show #2: 3 – 5 pm
Elvin Bishop and Takezo
Soulit from Japan
Dohee Lee & Lunar Drum Ensemble
Miguel Govea and Los Compas
Japan Society program on “Nuclear Energy & Economic Impacts of Japan’s Recent Crisis,” with Nobel physics laureate Dr. Burton Richter, Tues, May 24th, 650 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA. Register at: http://www.keizai.org. Donations to http://give2asia.org/keizaisociety
日本を世界に発信するということ〜AP通信特派員に聞く〜
Sunday, June 26 · 4:30pm – 5:30pm
ソーシャルエナジーカフェ
経堂2-19-5
Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan (東京都世田谷区)
国内に住む外国人とのインタビューを通じて日本を世界に発信することを試みてきた『My Eyes Tokyo』（http://www.myeyestokyo.com/）が、志を同じくする人々と共に贈るトークイベントです。第１回目は、YouTubeを通じて日本を世界に発信してきた方々を迎えて「何を発信するのか、なぜ発信するのか」についてお話を伺いましたが、第２回目となる今回はよりプロフェッショナルな内容です。
何とゲストに世界的報道機関”AP通信”東京支局のジャーナリストをお迎えします。そしてトークの内容も”原発””東電”にまで迫ります！AP東京支局が、今そこにある危機をどのように世界に向けて報道したのか？実際に特派員が執筆した記事や、APフォトジャーナリストが撮影した写真を見ながら、日本を世界に伝えるAP東京支局のプロフェッショナリズムを体感する６０分です。
The Asian American Journalists Association presents
“LOOKING AT FUKUSHIMA _ An Evening with Hiromichi Ugaya,” a talk, photo slideshow and discussion session with a veteran journalist documenting a post-nuclear disaster landscape.
THE PINK COW http://www.thepinkcow.com/ in a new location:
5-5-1 Roppongi Minatoku Tokyo Roi Building B1F
TUESDAY May 7, 2013 7 p.m. – 10 p.m.
2,500 yen for a Great Buffet Lunch is the only charge. Drinks pay as you go at the bar.
A public English-language event.
Come on time to catch a musical performance opening the event.
Musicians and poets welcome for Jam Open Mike to close the event.
Hiromichi “Hiro” UGAYA is a veteran journalist, photographer and educator, who has devoted his life recently to intensive coverage of the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe and the plight of the tens of thousands of people the accident has displaced. A former reporter at Asahi newspaper and writer for AERA magazine, he has authored more than half a dozen books on security issues, media criticism, Internet technology and Japanese pop culture. A graduate of Kyoto University, he holds a Master’s in International Security Affairs from Columbia University. His latest book “Fukushima’s Lost Seasons” is a poetic photo essay of the serene flowers and trees of the region that have been invisibly devastated by radiation. He is also a bassist and performs regularly at Tokyo clubs.
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RSVP for attendance and for more information, Yuri Kageyama, Correspondent for The Associated Press in Tokyo, at ykageyama@ap.org or on Twitter @yurikageyama