tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69409266297029350802024-03-19T05:42:57.003-04:00Japanese-American in BostonCovering Japanese & Japanese American culture & issues around the Greater Boston area & beyondKeikohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12493615969843452981noreply@blogger.comBlogger217125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6940926629702935080.post-86812980863120367602018-03-09T12:45:00.001-05:002018-03-12T14:27:22.531-04:002018 3.11 Events in BostonThis year marks the seventh anniversary of the tsunami, earthquake, and nuclear disaster that happened in Japan on March 11, 2011. Although the world's attention has turned to more recent natural disasters, the Tohoku region continues to struggle with rebuilding efforts as many residents remain in temporary housing. Civil servants from around the country have been working on reconstruction Keikohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12493615969843452981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6940926629702935080.post-5216893573108062512018-02-19T07:00:00.000-05:002018-02-19T16:59:51.200-05:00Film: Resistance at Tule Lake @ Tufts University
The Tufts Japanese Culture Club and Tufts United for Immigrant Justice will be screening Konrad Aderer's film Resistance at Tule Lake for their annual Day of Remembrance event titled "Incarceration and Resistance". Every year Japanese Americans around the United States commemorate February 19th, the day that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, the executive order Keikohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12493615969843452981noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6940926629702935080.post-12238067835915665032017-12-13T21:19:00.001-05:002017-12-13T21:19:35.545-05:00Hold These Truths @ the Lyric Stage through 12/31
It's rare to have plays on stage in Boston with Japanese American themes and actors so I was surprised to hear that Jeanne Sakata's Hold These Truths, is on stage for the month of December at the Lyric Stage Company of Boston. Founded in 1974, the Lyric Stage is Boston's oldest professional theater. They produce "intimate, challenging and entertaining theatre" in their 234 seat theater.
The Keikohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12493615969843452981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6940926629702935080.post-29585011330316036392017-12-02T01:53:00.000-05:002017-12-02T02:38:36.608-05:00Pikaichi is closing... for nowIt seems I’m a bit behind on Boston ramen news. I went to Pikaichi for lunch on Friday and found out that they are closing on Sunday, December 17th. 😢 They announced the closing on their Facebook page and website just before Thanksgiving. Apparently the landlord raised the rent significantly and owner Taka Akatsu decided that he could no longer stay at the Super 88 location.
"We recently Keikohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12493615969843452981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6940926629702935080.post-17989208811207851562017-11-26T22:56:00.002-05:002017-11-26T23:19:48.600-05:007th Annual Boston Japan Film Festival
The 7th Annual Boston Japan Film Festival is this coming Saturday at MIT. The festival includes a range of films from or about Japan. This year's selections includes documentary (short & feature), anime, and drama. The festival is sponsored by MIT's School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, MIT's Center for International Studies, the MIT Japan Program, New York Japan CineFest, Mar Keikohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12493615969843452981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6940926629702935080.post-13459632496995375602017-10-12T00:00:00.000-04:002017-10-12T00:00:23.597-04:00All Yume Wo Katare Coverage
October 11, 2012 11:27pmTrial run for friends & family
Yume Wo Katare turns five today!! For their fifth anniversary they opened an udon shop, Yume Ga Arukara. おめでとう! Omedetō!
I thought I'd collect all my coverage in one place for Yume fans. 😊
September 14, 2012: YumeWoKatare is the new ramen restaurant in Porter Sq.
October 10, 2012: Yume Wo Katare opening any day now
October Keikohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12493615969843452981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6940926629702935080.post-78210724009496634462017-10-11T07:00:00.000-04:002017-10-11T23:04:06.046-04:009th Annual Boston Asian American Film Festival October 19-22
The 9th annual Boston Asian American Film Festival runs from October 19th to the 22rd. Three Four films in this year's festival have Japanese American themes. I'm very excited that Japanese American filmmaker Konrad Aderer is returning to Boston for the New England premiere of Resistance at Tule Lake, this year's Centerpiece Film. The last time he was in Boston was five years ago when his Keikohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12493615969843452981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6940926629702935080.post-18220730648318711912017-05-29T22:40:00.001-04:002017-06-04T23:23:07.418-04:00Exhibit: Before They Were Heroes: Sus Ito’s World War II Images @ Harvard Medical School Transit Gallery
Correction 5/31/17: Someone just pointed out to me that I had written the Saturday hours were on June 2nd. Saturday is actually June 3rd.
It is really unusual to have exhibits on the WWII Japanese American experience in the Boston area. The Transit Gallery at Harvard Medical School is currently
exhibiting part of a very rare collection of photos from a Japanese
American soldier who Keikohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12493615969843452981noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6940926629702935080.post-4762300902583529202017-04-27T00:17:00.000-04:002017-05-11T20:43:08.905-04:002017 Spring Matsuris: Details & Tips for Japan Festival Boston & Brookline Cherry Blossom Festival
Update 5/11/17: Due to the weather forecast for Saturday, the Brookline Cherry Blossom Festival organizers decided to move the matsuri indoors to the rain location at the Schluntz Gym.
Boston's two largest Japanese festivals are coming up! In the past five years attendance at both festivals has grown around six-fold. The Japan Festival Boston started off in Copley Square with 10,000 Keikohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12493615969843452981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6940926629702935080.post-55474915879316391022017-02-27T15:28:00.000-05:002017-03-09T22:10:51.445-05:002017 3.11 Events in BostonIf you are aware of a 3.11 event that I have not listed, please post
a comment with a link to the event or details if the info isn't on a
public webpage. I will update this post if I learn of any other events.
This year is the sixth anniversary of the tsunami, earthquake, and nuclear disaster that happened in Japan on March 11, 2011. Fukushima continues to face challenges in the massive clean Keikohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12493615969843452981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6940926629702935080.post-20833454239644145392017-02-19T21:50:00.001-05:002017-02-25T01:28:58.283-05:002017 Day of Remembrance Events in Boston
San Francisco, California, 1942.
Exclusion Order posted at First and Front Streets directing removal of persons of
Japanese ancestry from the first San Francisco section to be effected by the evacuation.
Dorothea Lange, National Archives Identifier: 536017
Today is the 75th anniversary of the Day of Remembrance, the day President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, Keikohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12493615969843452981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6940926629702935080.post-68592214084156911282016-11-08T22:27:00.002-05:002016-11-14T22:28:25.351-05:00How to get your Japanese citizenship back
Photo credit: DiscoverNikkei.org
I grew up a dual national. I was born in Japan but my mother is an American citizen so she reported my birth abroad (see also: Wikipedia). The United States uses the jus sanguinis – meaning "right of blood" – principle to determine nationality so because my mother was a US citizen, she could apply to have my birth recognized by the US, thus giving me Keikohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12493615969843452981noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6940926629702935080.post-21477224239444615292016-10-13T21:45:00.000-04:002016-10-13T21:45:29.028-04:008th Annual Boston Asian American Film Festival Oct 20-23
The 8th annual Boston Asian American Film Festival runs from October 20th to 23rd. This year's festival has films from a Japanese American filmmaker, a
Japanese-Brazilian filmmaker, a Japanese animator, and a film about a
local Japanese American mental health activist. Check out the other films here.
I'm really excited that Emerson College alum Matthew Hashiguchi's film Good Luck Soup Keikohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12493615969843452981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6940926629702935080.post-4598236181683214092016-10-07T23:03:00.000-04:002016-10-13T21:42:51.029-04:00Film: East Coast premiere of Hidden Legacy: Japanese Traditional Performing Arts in the World War II Internment Camps
Hidden Legacy: Japanese Traditional Performing Arts in the World War II Internment Camps
Directed by Shirley Kazuyo Muramoto-Wong
2014 | 56 mins | Documentary
“Hidden Legacy: Japanese Traditional Performing Arts in the World War
II Internment Camps” is the full title of this documentary, using
historical footage and interviews from artists who were interned to tell
the story ofKeikohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12493615969843452981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6940926629702935080.post-6288452131790031952016-04-16T23:27:00.001-04:002017-04-26T23:02:32.668-04:00Japan Festival Boston & Brookline Cherry Blossom Festival celebrating five yearsBoston's two largest Japanese festivals are celebrating five years this year!
Japan Festival Boston & Cosplay Matsuri
Japan Festival Boston (formerly Haru Matsuri and Japan Festival in Boston) is hoping for this year's matsuri to be twice as large as last year's when 40,000 people attended! It looks like they are also expanding the cosplay portion of the event to be a matsuri Keikohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12493615969843452981noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6940926629702935080.post-12425149179131566972016-03-19T13:58:00.002-04:002016-03-19T13:58:56.652-04:00Temporarily Closed: Japonaise Bakery in Brookline
Oh no! Just tried to go to @JaponaiseBakery. Windows papered over & sign says "closed until further notice". :( 1/3 pic.twitter.com/KeWYshfQGs
— Keiko (@keikoinboston) March 18, 2016
I was sad when I got to Japonaise Bakery yesterday and saw that the windows were papered over and they were closed. Fortunately, the closure is just temporary. I emailed them and the owner, Takeo Sakan, Keikohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12493615969843452981noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6940926629702935080.post-83653992711432548952016-03-07T00:09:00.000-05:002016-03-22T00:01:39.644-04:00Upcoming taiko performancesA couple of big taiko performances are happening in the next month!
The Genki Spark 5th Anniversary Making Women's History
The Genki Spark, the only all female, pan-Asian taiko troupe in the US, continues their year-long celebration of their 5th anniversary with two concerts later this month. Their events and performances are always high energy and positive and I love seeing them perform!Keikohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12493615969843452981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6940926629702935080.post-15825715607877022892016-02-14T13:39:00.001-05:002016-06-16T18:06:33.083-04:00Robert J. Maeda, 1932-2016
6/16/16 Update: Robert Maeda's memorial service will be held on Saturday, June 25, 2016 at 3pm at Brandeis University in Rapaporte Treasure Hall in the Goldfarb Library, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02453. The service is open to the public.
I learned a couple of weeks ago that one of our local Japanese American community leaders passed away last month. Robert J. Maeda was Professor Keikohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12493615969843452981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6940926629702935080.post-48131639457563485092016-02-11T07:00:00.000-05:002016-02-11T07:00:05.814-05:00Film: Paper Lanterns
Paper Lanterns
Directed by Barry Frechette
2016 | Documentary
In 2015, as America and Japan celebrated the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, few remembered – if they ever knew – that twelve American prisoners-of-war were on the ground in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 and were killed by the atomic bomb that destroyed the city that day.
One of the Americans was Normand Brissette, Keikohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12493615969843452981noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6940926629702935080.post-65111274309541533132016-02-10T22:45:00.001-05:002016-02-10T23:09:52.364-05:00Exhibit: Twisted Again: The New Kumihimo @ Wedeman Gallery in The Yamawaki Art Center
Obi braided by Makiko Tada, Japan Original obi tie method by Matsuko Levin, USKimono on loan from the collection of Matsuko Levin
After attending the MFA panel on Kimono Wednesdays on Sunday I dashed off to Newton to the opening reception of Twisted Again: The New Kumihimo, an exhibit of kumihimo art. Kumihimo is a Japanese textile art that traditionally involves the braiding of silk strandsKeikohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12493615969843452981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6940926629702935080.post-58833129593523499662016-02-10T21:40:00.002-05:002016-02-11T16:50:32.577-05:00Exhibit: Made in the Americas @ MFAI had intended to write something much longer about this exhibit but I've run out of time. This is the last week of the MFA's Made in the Americas: The New World Discovers Asia. Made in the Americas showcases the work of artists from North and South America, including indigenous artists, who were influenced by goods coming in from Asia. Some of the objects in this exhibit come from the MFA's own Keikohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12493615969843452981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6940926629702935080.post-22996871798424250372016-02-03T19:19:00.001-05:002016-03-24T18:30:51.906-04:002016 3.11 Events in BostonIf you're aware of a 3.11 event that I haven't listed, please post
a comment with a link to the event or details if the info isn't on a
public webpage. This page will be updated if I find out about more events.
This year is the fifth anniversary of the tsunami, earthquake, and nuclear disaster that happened in Japan on March 11, 2011. Although the world's attention has moved on to other Keikohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12493615969843452981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6940926629702935080.post-76042861246813740252016-02-01T07:00:00.000-05:002016-02-14T19:32:49.740-05:00Tour: Bend by Kimi Maeda
Update 2/14/16: I'm sad to report that Robert Maeda, the subject of Kimi's play, Bend, passed away in January. Kimi's tour will continue as planned as a memorial to her father's life.
Japanese American theatre artist, Kimi Maeda, is bringing her one-woman show, Bend, back to New England this month. She'll have five shows in the Boston area (details below) as well as three Keikohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12493615969843452981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6940926629702935080.post-42996998582686127252016-01-08T20:04:00.000-05:002016-02-16T12:10:12.378-05:00Panel: Kimono Wednesdays: A Conversation @ MFA
Sign held by counterprotester in support of Kimono Wednesdays July 15, 2015
Please see my original post for background: Monet's La Japonaise Kimono Wednesdays at the MFA.
Update 2/1316: Video of the panel is now available on the MFA's YouTube channel. I am working on my response and hope to have it posted in another week or so.
Update 2/4/16: I just received word from the MFA that Keikohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12493615969843452981noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6940926629702935080.post-86012527019319323272015-12-12T09:11:00.000-05:002015-12-12T09:11:05.209-05:00The Genki Spark documentary online + fundraising campaign
The Genki Spark Documentary Trailer from Misako Ono
Tufts alumna Misako Ono's documentary The Genki Spark is available online here! It's an incredibly moving look at what The Genki Spark does and why a group like theirs is so important. Launched in 2010 at the Boston Asian American Film Festival, they are the only multigenerational, pan-Asian, women's taiko troupe in the United States. Keikohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12493615969843452981noreply@blogger.com0