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The annual Seattle Cherry Blossom and Japanese Cultural Festival began in 1976 to commemorate the gift of 1,000 cherry trees given to Seattle by Japan's Prime Minister Takeo Miki. [91] Miki had spent some of his student years at the University of Washington in the 1930s.
The front of the Japanese Cultural and Community Center Complex, formerly the Nihon Go Gakko. Nihon Go Gakko (シアトル日本語学校, Shiatoru Nihongo Gakko), also known as the Japanese Language School (JLS), is a National Register of Historic Places in King County based at the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Washington located on the periphery of the Seattle International District.
The Chinatown–International District (abbreviated as CID) is a neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.It is the center of the city's Asian American community. Within the district are the three neighborhoods known as Chinatown, Japantown and Little Saigon, named for the concentration of businesses owned by people of Chinese, Japanese and Vietnamese descent, respectively.
Japanese Americans in World War II, a National Historic Landmark theme study. Densho is a nonprofit organization based in Seattle, Washington whose mission is “to preserve and share history of the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans to promote equity and justice today.” [1] Densho collects video oral histories, photos, documents, and other primary source materials regarding Japanese ...
Pages in category "Japanese-American culture in Seattle" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Seattle Japanese Garden is a 3.5-acre (1.4 ha) Japanese garden in the Madison Park neighborhood of Seattle. The garden is located in the southern end of the Washington Park Arboretum on Lake Washington Boulevard East.
The Seattle Asian Art Museum (often abbreviated to SAAM) is a museum of Asian art at Volunteer Park in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States. Part of the Seattle Art Museum , the SAAM exhibits historic and contemporary artworks from China, Korea, Japan, India, the Himalayas, and other Southeast Asian countries. [ 2 ]
The Seattle Japanese School was founded in 1971 by local businessmen of Japanese descent; by 1993, it had over 600 students and served most of the Puget Sound region. [2] In 1986 the school moved to Bellevue since most of the students resided in the Eastside of King County, Washington. [3]