2025 Look Back
Nikkei Community Mourns Loss of Dr. Shinichi Hirokawa Who brought joy of traditional folk music to Los Angeles in December 2025
Updated by Shige Higashi on Dec. 27, 2025 at 2:30PM / Dec. 25, 2025 at 4:00PM
LOS ANGELES — The Japanese American communit…
Members of Urasenke Los Angeles Association Gather for Honoring Sotan, 17th-Century Grand Tea Master, in November 2025
Uploaded by Shige Higashi on December 28, 2025 at 3:00PM
On a serene autumn afternoon, November 16, 2025, members of the…
Responding to interest in Japanese culture, Omotesenke Domonkai Hosts 100 Guests at Autumn Friendship Tea Gathering in October 2025
Updated by Shige Higashi on December 5, 2025 at 2PM / November 15, 2025
Torrance, CA—Under a gently overcast autumn sky o…
Kansai Spirit Lights Up the 43rd Friendship Performing Arts Festival by Japanese Home Prefectural Association at Aratani Theatre, Little Tokyo in October 2025
Uploaded by Shige Higashi on December 28, 2025, at 8:15PM
Japanese Term Translations:
Shinboku Engeikai = Friendshi…
Los Angeles Urasenke Members Honor Late Hounsai Hansō Sōshitsu Kōji, 15th Grand Master, at Zenshuji Temple in October 2025
Uploaded by Shige Higashi on December 28, 2025 at 4:40PM
On a clear and gentle autumn afternoon in Southern California,…
Japanese Chamber of Commerce Celebrates 120th Anniversary with Community and Heritage at the Forefront in October 2025
Uploaded by Shige Higashi on December 31, 2025 at 1:20PM
The Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Southern Cal…
Retirement Celebration for Rinban Ito of Higashi Honganji Los Angeles Temple Attended with Nearly 700 at Quiet Cannon, Montebello in September 2025
The retirement celebration for Rinban Noriaki Ito of the Higashi Honganji Los Angeles Temple was a heartfelt and memor…
Okinawa’s Itoman City and Redondo Beach Celebrate 10th Anniversary of Sister City Relationship in August 2025
The Itoman City Welcome Dinner concluded with the everyone enthusiastically dancing the Okinawan folk Kachaashi wit…
Little Tokyo Shop Owner Willing To Be a Trailblazer for Japanese American Day Care Project Funding By His Donation in July 2025
Uploaded by Shige Higashi on December 31, 2025 at 2:00PM
LOS ANGELES, CA - On July 18, 2025, Akira Fujimoto, the owner of t…