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Bellevue, WA SJLS is the oldest operating Japanese language school in the continental United States with over one hundred years of history.
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Seattle, WA Serves Washington, Northern Idaho (Idaho county and nine northernmost counties), Montana.
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Seattle, WA The Seattle Cherry Blossom and Japanese Cultural Festival highlights traditional and contemporary arts and artists of Japan and the United States, focusing the Pacific Northwest. The annual free event showcases over 100 (no-vendors) displays and demonstrations of Japanese fine and applied arts, crafts, performing and martial arts, culinary arts, and cultural heritage presented by over 800 volunteers.
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Tacoma, WA The Asia-Northwest Cultural Education Association (ANCEA) is a registered non-profit corporation. Every year, ANCEA participates in various cultural and educational events. Sakura-Con is ANCEA's main event and realization of the ANCEA mission to educate about Asian Culture, with a focus on Japanese Animation, Comics, Gaming and Cultural Arts. Japan.
Sakura-Con is the oldest and most well-attended anime convention in the Pacific Northwest. Sakura-Con features cultural exploration and education through traditional and contemporary media, arts and entertainment. Sakura-Con includes: musical performances, Guest of Honor participation, discussion panels, games, contests (costumes and skit performances), theaters, traditional Asian arts and an exhibitors' hall for the sale of Anime related merchandise by third party vendors.
ANCEA is a membership-based all-volunteer organization. The controlling administrative body for ANCEA (and thus Sakura-Con) is an Executive Board that's main function is to put on the main ANCEA event, Sakura-Con, and to generally steward the ANCEA mission.
Sakura-Con is the oldest and most well-attended anime convention in the Pacific Northwest. Sakura-Con features cultural exploration and education through traditional and contemporary media, arts and entertainment. Sakura-Con includes: musical performances, Guest of Honor participation, discussion panels, games, contests (costumes and skit performances), theaters, traditional Asian arts and an exhibitors' hall for the sale of Anime related merchandise by third party vendors.
ANCEA is a membership-based all-volunteer organization. The controlling administrative body for ANCEA (and thus Sakura-Con) is an Executive Board that's main function is to put on the main ANCEA event, Sakura-Con, and to generally steward the ANCEA mission.
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, WA Sharing Japan's Tradition in Today's Lifestyle.
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Seattle, WA Japan Arts Connection Lab (JACLab) was born to provide a dynamic platform for Japanese artisans and master craftsmen to share their gifts, techniques, and passion for their craft with the rest of the world.
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Bellevue, WA Connecting the World with Japanese Music and Culture.
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Tacoma, WA Mary Ohno, Director of the Kabuki Academy is teaching traditional Kabuki style Japanese dance and Naga-uta style shamisen music, from children to adults at Seattle Central College and her studio in Tacoma.
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Seattle, WA Founded in 1957, the Seattle-Kobe relationship was the first such partnership for both cities.
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Walla Walla, WA Community Focus
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Portland, OR Sharing and preserving Japanese American history and culture in the Pacific Northwest.
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Seattle, WA North American Post publishing is one of the oldest minority-owned publishing company in the Greater Seattle area.
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Eastern Asia, Asian American Location
Seattle, WA Kristi Nakata (she/her) is a Yonsei (fourth generation) Japanese American fiber artist born and raised in the Seattle area, on Duwamish and Coast Salish land. Kristi creates macraweave wall hangings combining techniques of macrame and weaving. Inspired by the beauty of the Pacific Northwest, she creates mountainscapes and abstract interpretations of the colors of our region.
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Seattle, WA Hear the story of the Japanese American incarceration experience from those who lived it, and find thousands of historic photographs, documents, newspapers, letters and other primary source materials from immigration to the WWII incarceration and its aftermath.
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Seattle, WA Japanese American News Outlet
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, CA Tsuru for Solidarity is a way to give voice to the moral outrage of the Japanese American community at ongoing mass detentions in the US and to show solidarity with front-line immigrant communities fighting injustice, mass incarceration and deportation.
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Seattle, WA Seattle Dojo, the oldest Judo dojo in the United States, was established in the early 1900’s. The club moved several times until the present dojo was built in the 1930’s by first generation Japanese Americans.