Los Angeles Area
Torrance Sister City Association
48th Annual Bunka-Sai: Japanese Cultural Festival
Saturday & Sunday, April 15 & 16, 11:00 am to 5:00 pm
Ken Miller Recreation Center, 3341 Torrance Blvd (at Madrona Ave)
Shinto Shrine of Shusse Inari in America
Irei-sai (Monorail Ceremony) for the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami in Tohoku in 2011
Friday, March 10, 7:00PM (PST) Streaming live on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93lXZwPStmo
Shakuhachi and Koto Performance
Saturday, March 11, 7:00PM at Zenshuji Temple, 123 South Hewitt Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Cerritos Center for Performing Arts
YAMATO: The Drummers of Japan / Hinotori – The Wings of Phoenix
Friday, March 3, 8PM
Soraya Center at California State University Northrige
YAMATO: The Drummers of Japan / Hinotori – The Wings of Phoenix
Saturday, March 4, 3PM
Orange County Japanese American Association
2023 Officers Installation and Community Service Award Banquet
Sunday, March 5, 12:00pm
Double Tree Suite by Hilton Resort
Japan Foundation Los Angeles
Beautiful Handcrafts of Tohoku Japan
March 10 – May 06, 2023
Tulips in Harmony Annual Memorial After 3.11 Charity Concert Series Vol.12 Send Your Love Vol.2
Sunday, April 30, 3:00PM at Salvation Army, 4223 Emerald Street, Torrance, CA 90503
US Sumo Open – 23rd Annual
Saturday, May 20 at Water Pyramid, California State University Long Beach
Japanese Language Scholarship Foundation (Aurora Foundation)
The 19th Annual All-USA High School Japanese Speech Contest
Sunday, June 4, 2023, 1:00 p.m. (PDT) online
Japan House Los Angeles
Designing with Disaster: Stories from Seven Regenerative Cities
January 27 – April 2, 2023
University of Southern California (USC) Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture Programs
Wed. Jan. 18 | 12-1:30 PM PST |DML 110C
New Approaches to the Study of Premodern Japan Project
Reaching the Poor and Preaching Poverty: A View of Ninth-Century Japanese Buddhism from Below
Bryan D. Lowe, Princeton University
Fri. Jan. 27 | 4-5:30 PM PST | SOS 250
Morale on the Home Front from Europe to Japan: Its Transnational Construction and Destruction, 1914-1945
Sheldon Garon, Princeton University
Sat. Feb. 11 | 2-3:30 PM PST | JANM (100 N Central Ave)
Voices of Japanese American Incarceration
– Readings from When Can We Go Back to America?
– Art from the exhibit “Resilience – A Sansei Sense of Legacy”
– A performance of “Citizen 133660: Vignettes” for string and clarinet quintet composed by Chad Cannon
– Poetry reading by artist tracy kato-kiriyama
Wed. Feb. 15 | 12-1:30 PM | DML 110C
Japanese Food Culture and Culinary Traditions Speaker Series
Story of Sushi: How a Fermented Dish Became a Global Fast Food Eric Rath, University of Kansas
Wed. Mar. 29 | 12-1:30 PM | DML 110C
Environmental Humanities Speaker Series
Local, National, Regional, or Planetary?: Analyzing Island Chains as Biotropes and the Poetics of Ishimure Michiko
Christine Marran, University of Minnesota
Apr. 28 | 3-5 PM | Location TBD
Film Screening of Before They Take Us Away: Untold Stories of Japanese American Self-Evacuees of World War II
Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Producer
Patrick Glenn, Producer
Antonia Grace Glenn, Writer, Producer, and DirectorCo-sponsored by the USC East Asian Studies Center, the USC School of Cinematic Arts, the USC School of Dramatic Arts, the USC Department of History, and USC Libraries