The Koyasan Beikoku Betsuin aka Koyasan Buddhist Temple in Los Angeles held the 110th Anniversary Celebration of the Koyasan Shingon Mission in North America on October 14 and 15, 2023. Headed by Archbishop Taisen Imagawa, sixty Buddhist monks from Japan visited Los Angeles from October 13 to 18, 2023. From Kongobu-ji, the head temple of […]
The Japanese American Cultural & Community Center presents the 41st Annual Kotohajime virtually on January 1, 2024. The JACCC invites the public to join this free online event as JACCC celebrates new beginnings. In 1983, Hirokazu Kosaka, JACCC Master Artist Residence, shot the first arrow of Kotohajime. The event has grown to become JACCC’s signature […]
The Japanese American Cultural & Community Center will hold its 42nd Anniversary Celebration & Awards Dinner on Thursday, June 22, from 6:00-9:30 p.m. in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo. Guests are invited to JACCC’s Isamu Noguchi Plaza for “YUME: Imagine the Possibilities.” The JACCC statement said “The community is invited to join us for an evening […]
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Japanese American Cultural & Community Center (JACCC) in Los Angeleswill present the 39th Annual Kotohajime virtually on Jan. 2 at 1:00PM, PT via https://www.jaccc.org The JACCC invites the public to join this free virtual event as the JACCC celebrates new beginnings. In 1983, Hirokazu Kosaka, the artist of the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center, […]
LOS ANGELES, CA – An exhibition of four Japanese American artists—Nob Hadeishi, Mike Kanemitsu, Keisho Okayama, and Sawako Shintani—who influenced the Los Angeles art scene in the early 1970s. Kanemitsu, Hadeishi, and Shintani met at the famous Chouinard Art Institute near McArthur Park, Los Angeles, which later became California Institute of Fine Arts (CalArts). While […]
Forwarded for the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center The Japanese American Cultural & Community Center present its 37th Annual Kokohajime: “Hatsu-Ori” (First Weaving) at the Aratani Theatre on Sunday, January 5, 2020, from 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm. BUY TICKETS $18 JACCC Member $20 General Admission For its 37th Anniversary, JACCC’s signature New Year […]
The Japanese American Cultural & Community Center New Year Celebration – Kotohajime The Aratani Theatre at the JACCC campus 244 S. San Pedro Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 Sunday, January 6, 2019 at 1:00 PM TICKETS: $20 General Admission / $18 JACCC Member For more information call (213) 628-2725 or visit www.JACCC.org To celebrate the […]
KOTOHAJIME Hatsu-zora (First sky) Sunday, January 7, 2018 1 pm. Aratani Theatre in Little Tokyo Every January, Little Tokyo becomes the center for celebrating the Japanese New Year in Southern California, with the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center heading up the festivities with programs that invigorate the spirit and imagination. For its 35th anniversary, Kotohajime, […]