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The San Francisco Japanese School (SFJS) is a Japanese Ministry of Education (MEXT)-designated weekend Japanese school serving the area. The school system, headquartered in San Francisco, rents classrooms in four schools serving a total of over 1,600 students as of 2016; two of the schools are in San Francisco and two are in the South Bay.
The National Japanese American Historical Society (NJAHS) is an American 501(c) 3 non-profit organization based in Japantown in San Francisco, California. The organization is dedicated to collecting, preserving and sharing historical information and authentic interpretation about the experience of Japanese Americans .
275 Battery Street, formerly known as Embarcadero West, is a 30-story, 123.1 m (404 ft) office skyscraper in the Financial District of San Francisco, California. History [ edit ]
This Victorian house was designed by architect William Weeks, [2] in 1897 for James Redman, who died in 1921. In 1937, it was sold for $69,575 to J. Katsumi Tao, a naturalized citizen and "brother-in-law" (or sibling-in-law) of Mitoshi Hirahara. [3]
The Jewish Community Center of San Francisco is on California Street at Presidio Avenue in Presidio Heights. [44] The 1933 building was designed in the Mediterranean Revival Style with Art Deco details by Arthur Brown Jr. [45] The neighborhood was the site of the murder of Paul Stine by the Zodiac Killer near the corner of Washington and Cherry.
Up until 1906, San Francisco had been the main U.S. port of entry for Asian immigration and had the largest ethnic Japanese concentration of any city in the United States. [7] Prior to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, San Francisco had two Japantowns, one on the outskirts of Chinatown, the other in the South of Market area.
The San Francisco Japanese School (SFJS, San Furanshisuko Nihongo Hoshū Kō (サンフランシスコ日本語補習校)) is a weekend Japanese school as well as a two week summer school serving the San Francisco Bay Area. The system, with its administrative offices in San Francisco, [1] is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, [1] and was the ...
Established in 1970, JCYC has become one of San Francisco’s most successful youth organizations. [citation needed] While still committed to children and youth from the Japanese American community, JCYC has evolved and grown into an organization, which annually serves over 8,000 young people from all socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds. [1]