Arizona Area
Open House in Mesa: Haru Ga Kita: Free Event to learn Japanese culture
Saturday, April 8, 10:00am - 3:00 pm
Riki Judo Dojo USA, 535 W Iron Ave, Suite 121, Masa, AZ 85210
Los Angeles Area
Japanese American Cultural & Community Center's Kodomo no Hi (Children's Day)
Saturday, April 29, 2023, 10:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Kimono Con: Over 1,000 Kimono shipped directly from Japan for sale
April 1, 2 at Long Beach Marriott Hotel
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)
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
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