April 5, 2024 through February 23, 2025. Hello Auntie, Hello Uncle explores the many roles Elders play in our communities, celebrates their lives and achievements, and honors the wisdom gained with time. This exhibit elaborates on who an Elder can be and what a society that values and supports an Elder might look like. In […]
August 16, 2024 through May 11, 2025. Seattle’s pre-WWII nihonmachi, or Japantown, looked very different than it does today. In the decade before the war, three Issei artists flourished in the thriving Japanese community before the mass incarceration changed the face of the neighborhood forever. Kamekichi Tokita (1897-1948), Kenjiro Nomura (1896-1956), and Takuichi Fujii (1891-1964) […]
Enter by September 30, 2024. It's time to make your travel dreams come true in your bucket list! With all thanks to Tourism Year sponsors, JNTO and Lucasfilm are excited to announce this fabulous giveaway to win a trip to Japan! All you have to do is answer simple quiz, enter your email and cross […]
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - Thursday, October 31, 2024. Discover the gardens this fall during our annual Squash Hunt. Explore the grounds with your map in search of these home-grown, decorative delicacies! Children can get a sticky tape bracelet from the volunteer greeter or Guest Services staff and set off on a fall gathering adventure […]
Saturday, October 5, 2024. Welcome to Japan Week 2024! This will be our 8th annual JAPAN WEEK @ Bellevue College, presented by the BC Japanese Culture Exchange Club. Our Matsuri (festival) day open to the general public and to Bellevue College students who missed the weekday events. Japan Week aims to introduce multiple facets of […]
Saturday, October 5. The bazaar is having a farmers market, bake sale and ohagi! You can pre-order food with selections such as BBQ salmon, vegetarian yakisoba, curry pie, BBQ chicken and even suno dogs! Orders can be picked up on the day of the bazaar between 1:00 to 6:00PM. Order here https://blaineevents.square.site/ A portion of […]
Thursday, October 10, 2024. Virtual event. In their anthology, The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration, co-editors Frank Abe and Floyd Cheung, along with translator Andrew Way Leong, recover and reframe the writings of people targeted by exclusion and forced removal during WWII. “Our volume recovers pieces that have been long overlooked on the shelf, buried in […]
Sunday, October 13, 2024. Your Nikkei communities are hosting a Karaoke contest event where food & drinks will be served. The singing contestants will be divided into three groups-- Red, White and Blue. Those who choose not to sing in the event will serve as the judges, and will select the winners. Once decided, the […]
Sunday, October 20, Sunday, November 10. Four events, two amazing days of mushroom exploration! Toadstools, puffballs, chicken of the woods, witches’ butter, stinkhorns, turkey-tail, earthstar, shaggy manes…fungi have such fabulous common names! Join us for a wild mushroom identification walk and see what’s growing in IslandWood’s 250-acre forest on Bainbridge Island. You’ll learn where to […]
Sunday, October 20, 2024. Come join the fun and learn how to decorate cookies with an artistic flair. 100% of the proceeds will be donated to the Seattle Betsuin Arson Restoration and Building Fund. All supplies and ingredients are donated by Tina Wong and Lynn Miyauchi.
Sunday, October 20, 2024. White River Buddhist Temple's Fall Bazaar is back! If you'd like to order our delicious food, order by October 6 as items are limited. Pick-Up on Sunday, October 20th from: 11 AM - 2 PM
Wednesday, Oct. 23 and Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024. This month, Seattle publisher Chin Music Press will publish “Seattle Samurai: A Cartoonist’s Perspective of the Japanese American Experience,” a collection of Goto’s “Seattle Tomodachi” cartoons with extensive commentary provided by his daughter, Kelly Goto, who assembled the book. Throughout “Seattle Samurai,” Kelly Goto illuminates the strips […]
Fishing is Hilary Hutcheson’s life, and before she knew it, her career. But, by her own admission, she overlooked opportunities to learn about her heritage as a Japanese American to focus on being on the water. So when motherhood sparked a curiosity to learn more about herself and her family, she sought out a distant relative […]
Barbara Yoshida Berthiaume has been educating communities in the US and in Europe about the incarceration of Japanese-Americans during WWII for decades. This documentary explores how the discovery of her family’s incarceration and military service in the 442nd combat regiment sparked her lifelong research and draws parallels to the ongoing stigmatization of immigrants in today’s […]
