To request free sample copy of Weekly Cultural News, send your request to editor@culturalnews.com Contents of Weekly Cultural News, May 23-29, 2022 (Reiwa 4) P01: Urasenke School’s group holds tea demonstration at Torrance Sister City Association’s 2022 Bunka-Sai P02:…
Little Tokyo – The ninth annual Imagine Little Tokyo short story contest will celebrate the winners in three categories on Thursday, May 26 at 6 PM through the Zoom platform in a free program hosted by the Japanese American National…
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…
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…
LOS ANGELES – The Broad announced new exhibition, Takashi Murakami: Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow, running from May 21 to September 25, 2022. Murakami’s first monograph exhibition at the museum will feature 18 works, as well as immersive…
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…
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…
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…