A free sample copy of latest Weekly Cultural News is available. Please send your request to editor@culturalnews.com Contents of Weekly Cultural News, June 27 – July 03, 2022 (Reiwa 4) P01: Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple to present Obon at…
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…
Zenshuji Soto Mission 123 South Hewitt Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 Zenshuji Obon Carnival Saturday, July 16, 2022, 12:00pm – 7:00pm Sunday, July 17, 2022, 12:00pm – 7:00pm BBQ Chicken & Beef, Chirashi-sushi, Okinawa Dango, Tamale & Chili, Ohagi, Somen,…
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…
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…
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…
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…