Raku Museum https://www.raku-yaki.or.jp/e/index.html Aburanokôji-dôri Ichijô, sagaru, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto, 602-0923 Opening hours: 10:00 ~ 16:30 (last admission:16:00) Closed: Mondays except on National holidays To Celebrate the 45th Anniversary of the Opening of the Raku Museum RAKU: A Legacy of Japanese Tea…
National Museum of Asian Art Celebrates Its Centennial With an Exhibition at Kyoto’s Oldest Zen Temple Project is a Partnership With Canon Inc. and Kyoto Culture Association The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art has announced a partnership with Canon…
LOS ANGELES (Cultural News: Forwarded for JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles) – Elevating the art of kaiseki. In anticipated alignment with its five-year anniversary in Hollywood, JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles announces the debut of UKA, a thoughtfully developed, new dining destination…
The Nisei Week Foundation held the rescheduled 2023 closing ceremony at the Japanese American National Museum on Saturday, August 26 from 10:30 a.m. t0 11:30 a.m. The Nisei Week Raffle Grand Prize winner was announced as following: 2023 Nisei Week…
The Buddhist Churches of America (BCA) and its Social Welfare Committee have launched Maui disaster relief efforts in full support of the Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawaii (HHMH). Donations can be made online through: https://bca.kindful.com/, or by check payable to:…
Friends of Cultural News in Hawaii recommend the following organizations to send donations for Maui Wildfire Disaster Relief: The Hawai‘i Community Foundation “Maui Strong Fund.” Donations can be made at https://www.hawaiicommunityfoundation.org/maui-strong. The Hawai‘i Red Cross, is assisting with shelters for those displaced…
SAN MARINO, Calif.—The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens will open a major new feature in its renowned Japanese Garden in the fall of 2023, when the reconstruction of a 320-year-old magistrate’s (shōya) house from Marugame, Japan, will be…
Evergreen, the sequel to Naomi Hirahara’s historical mystery Clark and Division, will be released on August 1, 2023. Clark and Division, which follows a fictional Nisei woman’s travails from Manzanar to Chicago in 1944, was the recipient of the Mary…
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Japan Film Festival Los Angeles (JFFLA) 2023 takes place from Sept.1 -13 online; at Musicians Institute on Sept. 15; Japan House Los Angeles from Sept. 16-17. The JFFLA is a showcase of Japanese films with English subtitles. The 2023 theme…
JFFLA 2023 – Movie Premier Event September 16th & 17th TUNA GIRL https://form.jotform.com/232224988093160 Price: $55/person (Includes light dinner w/sake tasting & Beer and goodie bags) Date: September 16th (Saturday) Time: 4:30pm (Door open) 5:00pm – 8:45pm Location: JAPAN HOUSE…
This September, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, 6067 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036, will screen six films shot in vibrant color to celebrate the 120th birth anniversary of influential Japanese filmmaker and screenwriter Yasujirō Ozu. Before his death…