SF’s Japantown
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Organizers hold third open house for Osaka Way project
February 15, 2024 by Tomo Hirai, Nichi Bei News
More than two years on, the Osaka Way/Buchanan Mall renovation project has reached a major milestone with city planners releasing a preferred design direction. The city now moves into the […] READ MORE
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S.F. Japantown, Fillmore protest impending Safeway closure
February 1, 2024 by Tomo Hirai, Nichi Bei News
Food security became top of mind for San Francisco’s Japantown and Fillmore neighborhoods when Safeway announced its intent to sell and close their 1335 Webster St. location to Align Real […] READ MORE
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S.F.’s Japantown looks to 2024, with members expressing concerns
January 1, 2024 by Tomo Hirai, Nichi Bei News
Some feel San Francisco’s Japantown is on the up and up. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the ethnic enclave fared marginally better than many San Francisco neighborhoods. According to […] READ MORE
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A second Japantown? Probably not, but noteworthy nonetheless
January 1, 2024 by Tomo Hirai, Nichi Bei News
Some have called it a “second Japantown” and many more have disagreed, but there’s no denying that Stonestown Galleria in the southwest corner of San Francisco has become a destination […] READ MORE
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Nihonmachi Little Friends celebrates leadership transition
December 7, 2023 by Tomo Hirai, Nichi Bei News
Nihonmachi Little Friends celebrated 48 years on Nov. 17 with their annual sushi and jazz event inside the preschool. The school temporarily converted classrooms located in the historic Julia Morgan-designed […] READ MORE
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Walking tour of S.F.’s J-Town delves into ‘Harlem of the West’
November 9, 2023 by Tomo Hirai, Nichi Bei News
A new audio tour tells the history of San Francisco’s Japantown, focusing on the resettlement period after the war, when Japanese Americans returned to find Black Americans had moved into […] READ MORE
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Suggestions flow for two proposed designs of Osaka Way
October 12, 2023 by Tomo Hirai, Nichi Bei News
Ruth Asawa’s public art remains central to the Japantown Osaka Way Upgrades Project as the city pledged to get the late artist’s fountains running again. City staff, along with representatives […] READ MORE
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At ‘The Center’ of San Francisco’s J-Town
September 14, 2023 by Tomo Hirai, Nichi Bei News
Among the many nonprofits in San Francisco’s Japantown that were founded 50 years ago as the Redevelopment Agency moved in on the ethnic enclave to enact the community’s second era […] READ MORE
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Rosa Parks Japanese Bilingual Bicultural Program celebrates 50th
September 14, 2023 by Tomo Hirai, Nichi Bei News
The Japanese Bilingual Bicultural Program at Rosa Parks Elementary School got the “biggest birthday party ever” Sept. 5, as the entire school, with guests from the Japanese and Japanese American […] READ MORE
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S.F. Survey aims to incorporate historical and cultural resources in Japantown
September 14, 2023 by Tomo Hirai, Nichi Bei News
San Francisco aims to conduct a citywide inventory of its cultural resources with help from the city’s cultural districts to aid in future development and preservation efforts. Japantown and the […] READ MORE
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