April 11, 2024 by Tomo Hirai, Nichi Bei News
While the annual cherry blossom festival is slated to start this Saturday, April 13, the annual Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival Queen Program held its program night a week early […] READ MORE
April 13, 2023 by Tomo Hirai, Nichi Bei News
Though the annual Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival moved its Queen Program out of Japantown to the Cowell Theater at the Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture April 8, […] READ MORE
March 18, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
The Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival Queen Program announced its 2021 candidates — Akiko Jacqueline Bates, Ashlyn Sumiko Hom and Kelly Noelani Eshima. Akiko Jacqueline Bates Akiko Jacqueline Bates, 24, is […] READ MORE
March 14, 2019 by Nichi Bei News
The Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival Queen Program presented its 2019 queen candidates during its annual preview March 10 at the Union Bank Community Room in San Francisco’s Japantown. The […] READ MORE
March 19, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
TOKYO — Seishichi Ato, former president and senior advisor of Fujiyasu Kimono Co. Ltd. in Tokyo, passed away on Feb. 26 of gallbladder cancer according to Benh Nakajo, chair of […] READ MORE