{"id":39037,"date":"2016-01-16T12:56:56","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T16:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=39037"},"modified":"2016-01-16T12:56:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T16:56:56","slug":"justins-japan-george-takei-comes-to-japan-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2016\/01\/16\/justins-japan-george-takei-comes-to-japan-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin’s Japan: George Takei Comes to Japan Society"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“George Takei: From Barbed Wire to Broadway” comes to Japan Society Jan. 25. (Luke Fontana)<\/p><\/div>\n

By\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/em>JQ<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0magazine<\/a>\u00a0editor\u00a0Justin Tedaldi<\/a>\u00a0(CIR\u00a0Kobe-shi<\/a>, 2001-02) for Examiner.com. Visit his Japanese culture page\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0for related stories.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Start 2016 off right by heading down to Japan Society for some fantastic new year\u2019s fare. This month\u2019s events celebrate the power of theater,\u00a0with\u00a0productions that examine international relations between East and West, celebrating a century of growing diversity but also spotlighting a stormy past. Treat yourself and catch a break from the cold.<\/p>\n

This month\u2019s highlight:<\/p>\n

Monday, Jan. 25, 6:30 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

George Takei: From Barbed Wire to Broadway<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Japan Society<\/a>, 333 East 47th Street<\/strong><\/p>\n

SOLD OUT. Limited tickets may be released; please call the box office on January 19 at (212) 715-1258 to check availability.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Too few people know about that dark chapter of American history,” film and television star, pop culture icon and social media powerhouse George Takei (Star Trek<\/em>, Heroes<\/em>) told The Daily Show<\/em>‘s Jon Stewart in 2014, “when American citizens of Japanese ancestry were summarily rounded up with no charges, no trial no due process\u2014the core pillar of our justice system\u2014and put in barbed wire prison camps simply because we happened to look like the people that bombed Pearl Harbor.” In George Takei: From Barbed Wire to Broadway<\/em>, Takei shares memories from the troubling chapter of American history when some 120,000 innocent Japanese-Americans were forcibly relocated from their homes.<\/p>\n

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

By\u00a0JQ\u00a0magazine\u00a0editor\u00a0Justin Tedaldi\u00a0(CIR\u00a0Kobe-shi, 2001-02) for Examiner.com. Visit his Japanese culture page\u00a0here\u00a0for related stories. Start 2016 off right by heading down to Japan Society for some fantastic new year\u2019s fare. This month\u2019s events celebrate the power of theater,\u00a0with\u00a0productions that examine international relations between East and West, celebrating a century of growing diversity but also spotlighting a stormy […]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,26,53,340],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-celebrity","category-events","category-justins-japan"],"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