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Tanabata Festival
Ornament Competition at Nisei Week
Festival!
This year's Nisei Week Japanese Festival is
packed with exciting events.There will be a large
Nebuta float at the Grand Parade. The L.A.
Tanabata Festival invites all to make tanabata
ornaments and enter the ornament
competition. Workshops will teach you how to
make tanabata decorations. We'll find out if
the Weaver Princess will meet the Cowherd this
summer! Nis ei Week
Festival
Tanabata
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United
States Martial Arts
Festival
 Wrist grab! Arm
lock! Take your opponent down to see some real
fast action on July 18 at the Redondo Beach
Performing Arts Center. Special appearances by
world famous martial arts grand masters!
Proceeds will go to the Shin Koyamada martial arts
scholarship program.
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Today's
Kotowaza:
Ka
Chou Fu Getsu
 Flower, Bird, Wind,
Moon. Experience the beauty of nature to
understand yourself
better.
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Ministry
of Foreign Affairs News
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New growth strategies to
build a stronger, healthier
Japan
Japan has issued its new growth strategies
and plans for fiscal reconstruction to build a
strong economy with robust public finances and a
strong social security system. View the 21
national strategic projects for the revitalization
of Japan for the 21st Century. |
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Child's Play is Serious
Business at the Tokyo Toy Show!
Join over 150,000 attendees in the country
that unleashed upon the world Transformers,
Pokemon and Hello Kitty to see how children
everywhere will be gleefully spending your
money/their allowances next year. Over 120
Japanese and global toy makers will be in Tokyo
from July 15 to 18 for Japan's biggest fun &
games business exhibition! |
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O-Bon
and Natsu Matsuri
 Don the yukata and
put some Japanese dance moves in your summer by
joining in the o-bon dance line at your
neighborhood o-bon festival. Pre-festival
dance practice sessions will help keep you in
line. There are many Japanese summer festivals
happening all over Southern California. See
a list of area o-bon festivals and natsu matsuri
on the Consulate web site. Hurry, summer's going
fast! And don't forget the uchiwa!
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"Tapestries of Nagoya"
Exhibition
Richard Yutaka Fukuhara's dazzling
perspectives of the City  of Nagoya through his
kaleidoscopic photographs are now on exhibition at
the library of the Japan Information and Culture
Center at the Consulate General of Japan. Prints
hanging at the Consulate General of Japan's office
are close ups of the original art. |
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Wrist grab! Arm
lock! Take your opponent down to see some real
fast action on July 18 at the Redondo Beach
Performing Arts Center. Special appearances by
world famous martial arts grand masters!
Proceeds will go to the Shin Koyamada martial arts
scholarship program.
Flower, Bird, Wind,
Moon. Experience the beauty of nature to
understand yourself
better.
Don the yukata and
put some Japanese dance moves in your summer by
joining in the o-bon dance line at your
neighborhood o-bon festival. Pre-festival
dance practice sessions will help keep you in
line. There are many Japanese summer festivals
happening all over Southern California. See
a list of area o-bon festivals and natsu matsuri
on the Consulate web site. Hurry, summer's going
fast! And don't forget the uchiwa!
of Nagoya through his
kaleidoscopic photographs are now on exhibition at
the library of the Japan Information and Culture
Center at the Consulate General of Japan. Prints
hanging at the Consulate General of Japan's office
are close ups of the original art.
