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Kawafuku Restaurant, Los Angeles, CA
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Created by: lthistory
This is a collection of images related to the Kawafuku Restaurant in L.A.'s Little Tokyo. The restaurant was opened on Weller Street in 1923 by Takichi and Hana Kato. It ...
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2008 Nisei Week Ondo
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Created by: Spanky
Ondo participants in the closing ceremonies of the 68th Annual Nisei Week Japanese Festival held on Aug. 24, 2008 in the Little Tokyo district of downtown Los Angeles.
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Rising Stars Youth Leadership Program
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Created by: risingstars
The development of youth leadership is a common need expressed by almost every community organization. To address this need, the Nikkei Federation Youth Development Programs team developed the Rising Stars ...
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Aoyama Tree Designation Ceremony, July 17, 2008
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Created by: fmpotter
On July 17, 2008, the Aoyama Tree in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, was designated Historic Cultural Monument No. 920 by the City of Los Angeles. In attendance at the ceremony ...
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Sogetsu Ikebana: Haruko Takeichi / いけばな草月流： 武市治子 （たけいち・はるこ）
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Created by: editor
Haruko Takeichi is an interior designer in Southern California, originally from Japan. After graduating from an all-female arts college, she moved to the U.S. upon marriage in 1968.
In 1980, ...
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Tuesday Night Cafe, Los Angeles, California
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Created by: fmpotter
Those who claim there's nothing to do in Little Tokyo have obviously never been to Tuesday Night Cafe, a summer concert series at the Union Center for the Arts in ...
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Revelations & Resilience: Exploring the Realities of Hapa-ness
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Created by: editor
Photos and video from the event "Revelations & Resilience: Exploring the Realities of Hapa-ness" held by Discover Nikkei on Saturday, April 12, 2008, at the National Center for the Preservation ...
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コミュニティフォーラム： 沖縄人とグローバルネットワークの追求
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Created by: editor
全国有数の「移民の県」として知られている沖縄県。第2次世界大戦以前から、多くの移民を海外へ送り出してきました。移民数・海外在住者数は、全国でも一番です。移民した沖縄県人らは、海外で自らのコミュニティを築きつつ、世界のネットワークを通して沖縄との絆を深めてきました。
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Community Forum: Okinawans and Their Global Networks
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Created by: editor
Okinawa is well known as a prefecture of emigrants. More Okinawans, also known as Uchinanchu, have immigrated to other countries in the world before and after World War II than ...
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Gardena Valley Baptist Church
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Created by: genieinjapan
Gardena Valley Baptist Church (currently located at 1630 W. 158th St. in Gardena, California) was founded in 1914 by the Los Angeles Baptist Mission Society, targeting the recent immigrant population ...
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Japanese American Basketball Leagues
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Created by: hljleagues
Japanese American Basketball Leagues have been a part of the Japanese-American (JA) community for generations. Today, they play an integral role in the JA experience of young Japanese Americans. The ...
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二世ウィーク2007 - 青森ねぶた初上陸
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Created by: yn
今年で第67回を迎えた、カリフォルニア州ロサンゼルスの二世ウィークに、日本を代表する郷土祭り、青森ねぶたが登場しました。
日系コミュニティの中では伝統ある祭りとしてよく知られているこのお祭りも、最近アメリカへ移住してきた日本人の中では意外と知名度も低く、聞いたことあるけど、行ったことない！という方も多いようです。
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Landscaping America: Occidental College Student Research
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Created by: mpitelka
Students in the Occidental College seminar "Japanophilia: Orientalism, Nationalism, Transnationalism" visited and analyzed gardens in and around Los Angeles as part of a Community-Based Research Project with the Japanese American ...
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The Oliver Clubs: Sports and Community in Japanese American Los Angeles
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Created by: lthistory
In 1917, a teacher in the Little Tokyo area of Los Angeles named Nellie G. Oliver began sponsoring a social and athetlic club for local Japanese American youth. Over the ...
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My early J-Town memories
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Created by: vkm
These are some of the sites that still exist in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo that I have fond memories of while growing up. Actually, we never used the name Little ...
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The Sierra Madre Elementary School Japanese Garden
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Created by: rmiletich
This collection contains pictures of the different elements of the Japanese garden at the Sierra Madre Elementary School. These include stone lanterns, an arced bridge, a koi pond, a basin ...
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James Irvine Garden
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Created by: jdecker
Completed in 1979, the James Irvine Garden, also known as Seiryu-en, “Garden of the Clear Stream,” is an 8,500 square foot garden built in conjunction with the Japanese American Cultural ...
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Kana Takada's Collection---Japanophilia
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Created by: kanatakada
All the objects that are seen here reprensent Japan, however all of these products were made by non-Japanese people. Thus these objects are misleading, which present wrong images of ...
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Descanso Gardens
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Created by: nfrancis
Created in the 1930’s, Descanso Gardens is a one-hundred and sixty acre collection of gardens and woodlands in Los Angeles. The flora, albeit physically contiguous, is categorized into six main ...
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Theodore Roosevelt High School Japanese Garden
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Created by: pmcenney
A photo-documentation of the Heiwa En or Garden of Peace located in Theodore Roosevelt Senior High School.
Roosevelt High School is located at 4565 Mathews St. Los Angeles, CA 90033. ...
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