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An old favorite that’s still got it, brothy noodles you can slurp year-round and a tasting menu you won’t want to miss in ...
San Jose’s colorful annual Obon Festival drew hundreds of people to Japantown this weekend. The festival is the largest of ...
San Jose's Obon Festival is the largest of its kind in the U.S. The festival's big attraction is the traditional Bon Odori, in which hundreds of people perform a community dance.
Obon Festival, organized by the Salt Lake Buddhist Temple, returns on Saturday and will feature temple tours, drum performances and traditional dancing.
San Francisco's Japantown is one of the few remaining across the country. Now, community members are hoping a new co-working ...
San Francisco Japantown leaders say they want their voices to be heard in The City’s politics, no matter who ends up representing the ethnic enclave following the Nov. 5 District 5 supervisorial ...
Destination Nihonmachi, an Oct. 26 festival in San Francisco, highlights the longstanding historical and cultural ties between Japantown and the nearby Fillmore corridor that urban renewal severed.
Community members in Salt Lake City’s Japantown are gearing up for this weekend’s Obon Festival ahead of plans to revitalize the downtown area including Japantown.
How urban renewal and a dubious Olympic bid destroyed one the oldest Japantowns in the US. Salt Lake City’s Japantown was once a thriving community for thousands of Japanese Americans. In 1966 ...
SF Japantown construction project to close Peace Plaza until 2026 A major renovation project will close San Francisco Japantown's Peace Plaza for several years, however local businesses are trying ...
The mural was created in hopes of raising awareness and visibility around Sacramento’s lost Japantown, the group says.