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LA Kansai Club 2026 Grand Fall Music Festival Flyer Japanese
Little Tokyo Nutrition Service 50th Anniversary
Glendale Cultura; Festival 2026 Poster
Huntington Kabuki in Motion Poster
2026 Kiero no Hi Festival English Flyer
2026 Japanese Folk Song and Dance Show Fryer
Ikebana display by Group Yokou
Japan America Society of Sothern California 117th Anniversary Dinner & Gala Poster
My Hero Academia North America Tour Flyer
First talent-dicovery camp by Japan Football Association in Irvine, August 2026
2026 Kumamoto Earthquake Chrity Concert, fundraiser for victims of the July 28 Earthquake in Kumamoto, Japan, was held by the Nanka Kumamoto Kenjinkai of Los Angeles on August 9, 2026 in Torrance, California. (CN Photo/Shige Higashi)
Donation : Higashi Headshot LACMA 2024 Digital Witness
My Hero Academia North America Tour Flyer
Grand Master Kisaku Katada IV (the second person from right) leads the hayashi demonstration with fellow performers at the Nisei Week hayashi concert at the Rafu Chuo Gakuen School in Los Angeles, August 23, 2026. (Photo: Fuji Japanese Music, Inc.)
Bando Hidesomi is the official Choreographer of 2026 Nisei Week. (Photo by Toyo Miyatake. Source: Facebook/Nisei Week Foundation)
World Matsubayashi-Ryu Karate-Do Association (WMKA) gathers for the seminar at Tersaki Budokan on August 14, 2026 (Source: Facebook/Art Ishii)
Okaeri, a Nikkei LGBTQ+ program of Little Tokyo Service Center (LTSC), became the first LGBTQ+ group to walk in Little Tokyo’s historic Nisei Week Grand Parade on August 16, 2026.
Tea Ceremony with Pacific Plastics at Japan Foundation Los Angeles, June 18, 2026 (CN Photo/ Shige Higashi)
Japan Foundation’s tea ceremony demonstration at the David Geffen Galleries of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Sunday, August 16, 2026 (Photo © Museum Associates/LACMA, by Charlie Powers)
Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition “Japanese War Brides: Across A Wide Divide” (Left) A dance during the Occupation of Japan. Courtesy National Archives. (Right) Kimie Tanaka Smith, 2nd from right, attending a bride school class, Tokyo, 1952. Courtesy Robert Owen Smith family.
Record-breaking heavy rains struck Chiba Prefecture from August 13 to 14, 2026.
Powerful earthquake triggered an explosion at Aeon Mall Shopping Center in Kumamoto Prefecture in July 28, 2026.
AAJA LA Asian American Journalists Association : Taste and Tell
The 13th International Red and White Singing Festival was held on September 19, 2025, at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan bringing together 20 groups and 90 singers from around the world.
One Minutes Play Festival 2026 Whitefire Theatre
Japanese Film Festival Aruzina 2026 Poster
Arizona Musical Instrument Museum "Expeience Japan"
MAOSHO: Mao Sone & Sho Asano
Ken Koshio Taiko Extravaganza 2026 Poster
LACMA Textile Alcjemy Reiko Sudo "Origami Pleats"