FUN FEST JAPAN celebrates Japan and NYC with an all day free and fun Japanese cultural festival, featuring traditional performing arts and cultural activities for the whole family! Enjoy performances by […]
NYC, come through! 🗽🔥🇯🇵 IYASAKA MATSURI is coming to Brooklyn! Join us at @japanvillagebrooklyn on October 4 for a celebration of Japanese culture and HIPHOP‼︎ ついにIYASAKA祭りが10/4にブルックリンで開催👏 Japanese fusionをコンセプトに、日本文化とHIPHOPの融合した野外block partyをお届けします🔥 LINE […]
Gen’ichirō Inokuma’s NYC Salon is the first New York solo museum exhibition of the Japanese modern artist Gen’ichirō Inokuma (1902–1993). Organized by Japan Society Gallery in collaboration with the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma […]
Oyster Festival is coming! Enjoy unique oyster styles paired with Suntory beer & highballs, plus other food and non-alcoholic drinks. 🦪 OYSTER FESTIVAL 🦪 Join us for an afternoon of […]
Celebrate OMNY Taiko's 20th anniversary with a concert you won't forget. For two decades, our rhythms and friendships have been shaped by En, the threads of fate that connect us across space and time. These unseen bonds have guided our journey, weaving together the people, moments, and memories that define who we are. As we […]
Japanese Food Expo 2026 is coming to New York! 🗽 📍 Japan Village 934 3rd Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11232 📅 Dates & Hours October 23 (Fri) | 12:00 PM–7:00 PM […]
NISHIMONAI BON ODORI (Akita Prefecture) Nishimonai Bon Odori is a traditional Bon dance with a history of approximately 700 years, and it was registered as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2020. Akita Prefecture, located in the northern part of Japan, is well known throughout the country for producing delicious rice and sake. Because Akita […]
Brooklyn Kura launched in 2016 in Brooklyn, NY, breaking ground as New York’s first sake brewery. Over the past 10 years, Brooklyn Kura would provide sake education and awareness far beyond NYC and fundamentally change the trajectory of the American sake landscape. Tonight, Brandon Doughan, Co-Founder and Master Brewer of Brooklyn Kura, speaks about the […]
NISHIMONAI BON ODORI (Akita Prefecture) Nishimonai Bon Odori is a traditional Bon dance with a history of approximately 700 years, and it was registered as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2020. Akita Prefecture, located in the northern part of Japan, is well known throughout the country for producing delicious rice and sake. Because Akita […]
Mieko Kawakami is one of the most critically acclaimed contemporary authors on the planet and perhaps the foremost contemporary female author hailing from Japan. Born in Osaka, Kawakami made her literary debut as a poet and published her first novella, My Ego, My Teeth, and the World, in 2007. Her books, translated into over 40 […]
JPA Annual Performance Program: Japanese traditional dance, Yukata fashion show, Kagura, and the Big Three Bon Odori Festivals Japan Performing Arts, Inc.’s Autumn Free Public Program features “Discovery within Traditions – Ebisu / Big Three Bon Odori. Across Japan, there is a Shinto ritual dance known as Kagura, which has spread to various regions. From […]
A stone can mark a boundary. Or it can open one… Japanese-American musician Kaoru Watanabe and Lakota performance/visual artist Kite (Suzanne Kite) bring two inheritances together, asking what it means to seek ancestral guidance […]