Nichi Bei News

The latest on what's been happening with the Nichi Bei Foundation and the Nichi Bei staff.

The Nichi Bei celebrates Japanese Heritage Day with the Oakland A’s

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Join the Nichi Bei Foundation in a baseball fundraiser at 1:05 p.m. on Sun., April 3. The Oakland A’s will take on the Seattle Mariners. And, in celebration of Japanese Heritage Day, there will be a pregame ceremony featuring a performance by Emeryville Taiko and an appearance by Arisa Hiroi, the Northern California Cherry Blossom [...]

SF Japantown Foundation celebrates the New Year at NEW PEOPLE

(2) and (3) the event featured osechi ryori, traditional Japanese New Year’s food. photo Johnny Nagano

On Jan. 13, the San Francisco Japantown Foundation hosted a fundraiser at the NEW PEOPLE building in Japantown.

SF: Join us for the Nikkei Lions Club Crab Feed

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The San Francisco Nikkei Lions Club will be hosting its 20th annual, all-you-can-eat Crab and Spaghetti Feed from 5 to 9 p.m. on Sat., Jan. 22, at the Buddhist Church of San Francisco, 1881 Pine St. (at Octavia Street). Dinner is from 5 to 7 p.m. with a menu of cracked crab, spaghetti, garlic bread, [...]

40th annual Oshogatsu matsuri

Wes Nihei pounds as Rich Eijima turns the mochi rice athte 2011 Oshogatsu Festival at the JCCCNC. photo by Kenji Taguma, Nichi Bei Weekly Staff.

The JCCCNC’s 40th annual Oshogatsu matsuri was held on Jan. 8 in SF’s Japantown. The community celebration welcomed in the new year with arts and crafts, mochitsuki, taiko drumming, food and a children’s art contest. J-town Arts silk-screened T-shirts for free. How awesome is that? Nichi Bei staff were on hand snacking, snapping pictures and [...]

Spaghetti and Crab Feed

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Volunteers from the JACL and the Nichi Bei Weekly at the SF JACL’s annual Spaghetti and Crab Feed fundraiser, Sat. Dec. 4, at the Christ United Presbyterian Church in SF. Ken Sogabe, Rod Suzuki, Haruka Roudebush, Doug Nakatani Nancy Satoda, Elizabeth Hayashi, Brigid Sogabe, Marie Rinne, Hiroshi Shimizu, Julie Nakatani, Yo Hironaka, Greg Marutani, Nikki [...]

Nichi Bei Foundation Day

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Celebrating Nichi Bei Foundation Day with the Oakland A’s on Sept. 6. At the game, which took place in Oakland, Japanese American catcher Kurt Suzuki of the Oakland A’s took on Japanese baseball legend Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners.