A Day at the Museum

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Presented by Hiroken and the Discover Nikkei project.

Saturday, May 19 from 11 am to 2:30 pm
At Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo

Discover Nikkei staff at the Japanese American National Museum will lead a tour of the Museum’s “Common Ground” exhibition which provides an overview of Japanese American history.

After lunch, participants will take part in a fun game that teaches about the
Japanese American experience in an interactive way, including information
about the Hiroshima Kenjinkai.

Start time: 11 am
Lunch Break 12 – 1 pm
Afternoon games: 1 – 2:30 pm

RSVP by Thursday, May 17. Email Hiroken at hirokensocal@gmail.com

Hanami Picnic

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We hope you’re having a wonderful 2012. Just wanted to let you know that our annual Hanami picnic is coming up Sunday, March 4. Mark your calendars! We’ll post more details as the day approaches.

Looking forward to 2012!

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Hope you’re having a wonderful winter season!

We would like to give you some developments regarding next year’s Japan Culture and Heritage Program. First, we’ve locked in our travel dates. We will depart from LAX on July 18, 2012, and return on July 25*. We’ve reserved 18 seats on Singapore Airlines, so space is limited. Second, for our third orientation session, which will take place in May, we have teamed up with the Japanese American National Museum. The program will include a guided tour of the museum followed by a program for our participants to learn more about Japanese American history and identity. Finally, due to interest in participating in our program without traveling to Japan, Hiroken is inviting applicants to for our orientation sessions without committing to the travel portion of program. The deadline to commit to the travel portion of the program will be sometime in March.

We’ll let you know more updates once they are confirmed. In the meantime we’re working hard to make this a fantastic program for those of you interested in getting to know the Japanese American community and Japan. For more information and to download the application, visit us at hirokensocal.org. We hope you can be a part of this wonderful program, and please help spread the word to others. Thanks!

See you in 2012!

Hiroken

 

We’re headed to Hiroshima in 2012!

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It’s official! Hiroken is headed to Hiroshima in July 2012 and we want you to join us.  Our vision for Japan Culture and Heritage Program is to provide a fun, organized, and guided trip to Japan for adults. The program begins in Los Angeles with a series of cultural awareness workshops. Participants will learn basic Japanese customs and etiquette, expand their connections to the Japanese American community, and explore the relationship between Japanese culture and Japanese American culture.

This program is supported by the Hiroshima Prefectural Government. For more information, click the tab on the top menu.

Habitat For Humanity

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On Sept. 17, we spent the day in Burbank helping build a home with the good folks at Habitat For Humanity. Some of us applied molding on wall trim and painted the interior while the rest of us painted the outside fence. It was a lot of work but we got some valuable pointers for fixing up houses. It’ll go to a family in need, so it was great to help out.

Habitat is a non-profit organization that builds homes for families in need throughout the world. We heard they have plans in the near future to build homes in the tsunami-struck region of Japan, too.

Masako paints on the base coat. It's important to roll up and down only. And fill in the holes with bondo!

Junya gets down and dirty.

A view of the new backyard