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This includes Japanese street food, performances from traditional dancers and Japanese drum or taiko troupes, and more! In 2023, the Cherry Blossom festival had “performances by the San Diego Japanese Hula Club, the Buddhist Temple of San Diego’s Ondo Dancers as well as taiko—a Japanese drum—troupes.” [1]
Disney and Carnival Cruise Lines have seasonal Mexican cruises in the spring and fall, as well as a Panama Canal cruise at the end of the visit. Multiple other cruise lines use San Diego as a port of call. The Port of San Diego experienced a 44-percent growth in cruise calls between 2002 and 2006, growing from 122 to 219 calls.
The ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles together account for approximately 40% of the shipping containers entering the United States. [7] More than three-quarters of the containers leaving Los Angeles were empty in July 2021 whereas about two-thirds of the containers leaving U.S. ports are typically filled with exports.
A typical bento bought from a grocery store. A bento (弁当, bentō, Kyūjitai:辨當) [1] is a Japanese-style single-portion take-out or home-packed meal, often for lunch, typically including rice and packaged in a box with a lid (often a segmented box with different parts of the meal placed in different sections).
The Japanese Friendship Garden is a walled section of Kelley Park in San Jose, California, United States. Dedicated in October 1965, it is patterned after Japan's famous Korakuen Garden in Okayama (one of San Jose's sister cities) and spans six acres. Its three main ponds were stocked with koi sent from Okayama in 1966. The ponds are at ...
A take-out or takeout (U.S., Canada, and the Philippines); carry-out or to-go (Scotland and some dialects in the U.S. and Canada); [1] munchy box, takeaway (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth countries); [1] takeaways (India, New Zealand); grab-n-go; and parcel (Bangladesh, and Pakistan) [2] is a prepared meal or other food items, purchased at a restaurant or fast food outlet with the intent to eat ...
California contains five of the top 10 metropolitan cities with the greatest Japanese population in the United States. [10] Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, San Diego, and Sacramento have the largest Japanese populations in California, with Los Angeles having more than the other cities combined.
San Diego hosts the largest naval fleet in the world: [8] In 2008 it was home to 53 ships, over 120 tenant commands, and more than 35,000 sailors, soldiers, Department of Defense civilian employees and contractors. [9] San Diego is home to the California National Guard's 79th Infantry Brigade Combat team. [10]