Crossings TV is an Asian language cable network with in-language programming for the Chinese, Vietnamese, Filipino, Japanese and South Asian communities in the Seattle-Tacoma DMA. Crossings TV airs on Xfinity TV Channel 152. Additional coverage is available in California, Minneapolis-St.Paul, Chicago, and New York City. Read more...

In 1956, in an effort to lessen the chance of future world conflicts, President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed a people-to-people program between the United States and other nations that would involve people and organized groups at all levels of society. The program was originally housed under the National League of Cities. This became Sister Cities International in 1967. The Bellingham Read more...

In the 1950’s, in an effort to create an atmosphere of friendship and cooperation, many cities, counties and states in the USA began affiliations with those in other nations. In 1956, when President Eisenhower proposed the People-to-People program, the affiliations developed into a national initiative. The Sister Cities program began as part of the National League of Cities, but due Read more...

The Nidoto Nai Yoni, “Let it not happen again,” Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial is built at the site where this first group of internees was taken from our island. The memorial honors those who suffered this injustice and the friends and neighbors who stood beside them and welcomed them back. Designated a satellite of the Minidoka Internment National Read more...

Anacortes Sister Cities Association (ASCA) started as a small group in 1991. This group of individuals wanted to explore the possibility of establishing a formal relationship with a city in the newly opened USSR. Anacortes City Council and then Mayor Jim Rice worked with the group. Together they formulated, through Sister Cities International of Washington D.C., a relationship with Lomonosov, Read more...

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 Read more...