The National Steinbeck Center, One Main St. in Oldtown Salinas, Calif., will display the “Japanese History: In Salinas Chinatown” exhibit. The exhibit reflects the Japanese immigrant and Nikkei experience as farmers and merchants, as well as the discrimination they experienced. The Center is open seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Info [...]

A one-act opera about the Japanese American incarceration, “The Sisters of Manzanar” will open in Fresno, Calif. with George Takei as keynote speaker. Tours of Pinedale and the Fresno fairgrounds, locations that served as temporary detention centers for inmates, will take place prior to the world premiere of the opera on Saturday, April 30. On [...]

The fourth annual Salinas Asian Festival will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., with taiko drumming at the opening ceremony, at the lot adjacent to the Old Republic Café located on 37 Soledad St. in Salinas, Calif.The Festival celebrates the cultural and historical presence of the Chinese, Filipino, and Japanese communities in Salinas. [...]

The Los Angeles-based Manzanar Committee announced that Aiko Yoshinaga-Herzig has been chosen as the 2011 recipient of the Sue Kunitomi Embrey Legacy Award. The award, named after the late chair of the Manzanar Committee who was one of the founders of the annual Manzanar Pilgrimage and was the driving force behind the creation of the [...]

The “Camp Days: 1942-1945- Childhood Memories of Chizuko Judy Sugita de Queiroz” exhibit will be on display at the Japanese American Museum of San Jose, 535 N. Fifth St. in San Jose’s Japantown. The exhibit depicts Sugita de Queiroz’s childhood experience in the Poston, Ariz. incarceration camp. Hours: Thurs. through Sun., noon to 4 p.m. [...]

The Japanese American National Museum, 369 East First St. in L.A.’s Little Tokyo, will hold a “Moment of Remembrance” event at 2:30 p.m. to honor the victims of the March 11 disasters that occurred in Northeastern Japan. The gathering will include brief remarks by the Rev. Noriaki Ito of Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple and the [...]

Yu-Ai Kai Japanese American Community Senior Service, in conjunction with Minami Tamaki LLP, will host a free workshop, from 10 a.m. to noon on how to prevent pedestrian and car accidents. The workshop will be taught by senior consul Mark Fong, and be held at 588 North Fourth St., San Jose’s Japantown. An RSVP is [...]

The Mary Sano Studio will host a free dance class and performance in celebration of national dance week. The event, held from 6 to 9:30 p.m., will include a short question and answer session. The studio is located at 245 Fifth St. #314, SF. Info: (415) 357-1817.