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18-acre Japanese estate, retreat and gardens, includes a bamboo garden, Zen garden, strolling garden, tea houses, and the Cultural Exchange Center, which is an authentic reproduction of a 19th-century Kyoto tea merchant's house and shop. Hammond Museum and Japanese Stroll Garden: North Salem: New York
The center contains a café, an exhibition space, a currency exchange, a conference hall, free Wi-Fi, computers, and restrooms. [5] [15] It also organizes free English language tours around Asakusa each weekend. [16] The information counter near the entrance offers services in English, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese.
The front of the Japanese Cultural and Community Center Complex, formerly the Nihon Go Gakko. Nihon Go Gakko (シアトル日本語学校, Shiatoru Nihongo Gakko), also known as the Japanese Language School (JLS), is a National Register of Historic Places in King County based at the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Washington located on the periphery of the Seattle International District.
website in Japanese, local history and culture Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage: Koto: History: Information and artifacts regarding the bombing of Tokyo: Currency Museum of the Bank of Japan: Chūō: Numismatic: Japanese currency Daimaru Museum: Chiyoda: Art: website in Japanese, information: Daimyo Clock Museum: Taitō: Horology
The JAMsj was established in November 1987. It grew out of a 1984-86 research project on Japanese American farmers in the Santa Clara Valley.The farming project collected family histories, historical photographs, private memoirs and other unpublished documents and led to the development of a curriculum package on Japanese American history, which was adopted for use by the San Jose Unified and ...
Japantown (Japanese: 日本町; Nihonmachi), commonly known as J Town, is a historic cultural district of San Jose, California, north of Downtown San Jose. [1] [2] Historically a center for San Jose's Japanese American and Chinese American communities, San Jose's Japantown is one of only three Japantowns that still exist in the United States, alongside San Francisco's Japantown and Los Angeles ...
The Japan-America Society (JAS) agreed to sponsor the project, and declared that the Japanese House should be donated by Japan as a gift to American people in order to promote the cultural exchange. Sponsored by both the private sector and the government, the JAS raised a total of ¥18.5 million ($51,000 at the exchange rate of ¥360/$ in 1953 ...
In 1999, the Manabi and Sumi Hirasaki National Resource Center (HNRC) was established to provide access to the museum's information and resources, both at the facility and online. It documents the life and culture of the Japanese Americans. Akemi Kikumura Yano, author, [8] was the museum's first curator.