Free sample copy of Weekly Cultural News is available. Please send your request to editor@culturalnews.com Contents of Weekly Cultural News, May 16-22, 2022 (Reiwa 4) P01: Japanese American actors to join winners announcement event of annual Imagine Little Tokyo short…
Cultural News is a comprehensive source of Japanese art and cultural events in Southern California. If you like to request free sample copy of Cultural News, please send your request to editor@culturalnews.com Contents of Weekly Cultural News, May 09-15,…
(Los Angeles) Hero Theatre presents a revival of Tea, Velina Hasu Houston’s powerful, lyrical exploration of the immigrant experience that has become a modern classic. Five Japanese women learn to adjust to a new life in rural Kansas alongside their…
Zenshuji Zasenkai Presents A Series of Lectures and Conversations This series commemorates Zenshuji Soto Mission’s 100th Anniversary. The temple was founded in 1922 as the first official branch of Soto Zen in North America. Events in the series explore the…
Forwarded for Japan Foundation Los Angeles Japan Foundation Los Angeles presents new exhibition TANAGOKORO: Alternative Crafts by 16 Japanese Contemporary Artists Date: March 12 – May 28, 2022 Location: The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles Address: 5700 Wilshire Blvd., #100…
Hayao Miyazaki, the Academy Museum’s inaugural temporary exhibition, marks the first North American museum retrospective dedicated to the work of its namesake: the internationally celebrated artist and filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki. Curated by the museum’s Exhibitions Curator Jessica Niebel and Assistant…
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA – The Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College presents Each Day Begins with the Sun Rising: Four Artists from Hiroshima, the first US exhibition for four Japanese contemporary artists: Megumi Fukuda, Taro Furukata, Genki Isayama, and Kana…
LOS ANGELES – What goes into a perfect bowl of ramen? JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles, a Japanese cultural destination in the heart of Hollywood, answers this question with its upcoming exhibition “The Art of the Ramen Bowl” spotlighting imaginative porcelain…
LOS ANGELES – From the confines of concentration camps and locales under martial law to the battlegrounds of Europe, Japanese Americans drew on their faith to survive forced removal, indefinite incarceration, unjust deportation, family separation, and war combat at a…
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Kimono Style: The John C. Weber Collection Exhibition Dates: June 7, 2022–February 20, 2023 Location: The Met Fifth Avenue, Arts of Japan, The Sackler Wing Galleries, Galleries 223–232 Opening June 7, 2022, at…
Building local and national networks helps grow Japanese culture in Los Angeles Shige Higashi Editor & Publisher of Cultural News President, Cultural News Association September, 2021 If we don’t have sushi, anime, taiko, judo, kendo, karate, ikebana, bonsai, odori, shamisen,…
TOKYO (December 15, 2021) – CoMix Wave Films, STORY Inc. and Toho Co., Ltd. held a press conference to announce the production of long-awaited new film from Makoto Shinkai, an animation director with all eyes around the world watching his…