{"id":13202,"date":"2010-08-25T18:05:24","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T22:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=13202"},"modified":"2010-08-25T18:09:47","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T22:09:47","slug":"new-york-mets-recruiting-jets-for-inaugural-japanese-heritage-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/25\/new-york-mets-recruiting-jets-for-inaugural-japanese-heritage-night\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Mets Tap JETs for Inaugural Japanese Heritage Night"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Japanese Heritage Night at Citi Field, Friday, Aug. 27.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a0By JQ Magazine<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>Justin Tedaldi<\/strong><\/em><\/a> <\/strong>(CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his NY Japanese Culture\u00a0page<\/em> here<\/strong><\/em><\/a> to subscribe for free alerts\u00a0on newly published stories.<\/em><\/p>\n

Move over, Matsui.<\/p>\n

The New York Mets will hold its first-ever Japanese Heritage Night at Citi Field on Friday, Aug. 27 against the Houston Astros, with discounted ticket rates available for all family and friends of the Japanese community.<\/p>\n

Pre-game entertainment includes taiko<\/em> drumming by acclaimed troupe Soh Daiko; a traditional\u00a0Obon<\/em> dance led by the Japanese Folk Institute of New York featuring dance participants from the Japanese heritage community and friends; the Spirit Award ceremony honoring those in baseball, the military and community service; and the national anthem sung by Japanese Hispanic American Kurt Sanchez Kanazawa.<\/p>\n

Donna Tsufura<\/a>, cofounder of Japanese Americans and Japanese in America (JAJA) and one of the organizers of Friday\u2019s event, has contacted groups like the JET Alumni Association of New York<\/a> to recruit volunteers to help publicize, assist with and participate in this special night, including the ancestor-honoring Tanko Bushi<\/em> dance itself in center field. Tsufura said that this helps to fulfill JETAA NY’s mission to increase the understanding and appreciation of Japan and its people in the U.S.<\/p>\n

Read the complete story here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0By JQ Magazine\u2019s\u00a0Justin Tedaldi (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his NY Japanese Culture\u00a0page here to subscribe for free alerts\u00a0on newly published stories. Move over, Matsui. The New York Mets will hold its first-ever Japanese Heritage Night at Citi Field on Friday, Aug. 27 against the Houston Astros, with discounted ticket rates available for all family and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-events"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t