(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…
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…
To preserve stories of the Japanese, German, and Italian immigrants, and Japanese taken from Peru, and others, at the Tuna Canyon Detention Station which was operated by the Department of Justice during World War II in the City of Los…
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,…
LOS ANGELES — Dale Minami, Fred Korematsu’s lead counsel in his 1983 coram nobis case, Alan Nishio, former Southern California Co-Chair of what was then the National Coalition for Redress and Reparations, Karen Umemoto, Director, UCLA Asian American Studies Center,…
August 28, 2021 – March 27, 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…
The Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Southern California will resume its in-person Officers’ Installation and Awards Luncheon this year. The chamber of commerce will be honoring and recognizing the following for their community involvement and services to: 1) Nikkei Spirit…
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…
Little Tokyo, Los Angeles – Little Tokyo Service Center (LTSC) will celebrate the grand opening of the Paul I. Terasaki Budokan, a community recreation facility, with a ribbon cutting ceremony on Friday, March 11, followed by a free and public…