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…
The Japanese Language Scholarship Foundation, or Aurora Foundation, announced the 15th annual Aurora Golf Classic, tournament and special dinner, honoring George Sugimoto for his life’s accomplishments, was set for May 2, 2022 at Via Verde Country Club. For more information,…
The Little Tokyo Service Center announced the grand opening of the Terasaki Budokan is set for Saturday, March 12, 2022, from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm at 249 South Los Angeles Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012. Free community events will…
Cultural New is a comprehensive source of Japanese cultural and art event in Southern California Let’s subscribe Weekly Cultural News at https://www.culturalnews.com/subscription The Contents of Weekly Cultural News, Jan. 17-23, 2022 P01: The year of 2022 marks 100th anniversary of…
On Dec. 21, Drive My Car, Japan’s official entry of Best International Feature Film category for the 94th Academy Awards (2022), will advance to the nomination on Feb. 8, 2022, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science announced. The…
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…
First-Ever U.S. Exhibition Exploring History and Art of Japanese Silk Braiding; Produced by Centuries – Old Braided Silk Cord Company, DOMYO JAPN HOUSE Los Angeles presents new exhibition “KUMIHIMO: The Art of Japanese Silk Braiding by DOMYO” from December 11,…
August 28, 2021 – February 20, 2021 LOS ANGELES – On the 75th anniversary of its publication, the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) opens a new exhibition, “Miné Okubo’s Masterpiece: The Art of Citizen 13660” on Aug. 28. This groundbreaking…
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,…
Japan Society, New York Shikō Munakata: A Way of Seeing December 10, 2021 – March 20, 2022 This new presentation of nearly 100 path-breaking works by celebrated artist Shikō Munakata (1903-1975) is organized from Japan Society’s rare collection—the largest Munakata…
SACRAMENT, CA — The Crocker Art Museum is pleased to announce Hands and Earth: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics, a collection of over 40 ceramic objects that provides a stunning introduction to clay artistry from Japan, on view from Sept. 12, 2021,…
‘Kamoda Shōji: The Art of Change,’ The Artist’s First Museum Retrospective Outside of Japan, to Open at Minneapolis Institute of Art in December MINNEAPOLIS, MN — The Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) announced an exhibition of works by the Japanese…