{"id":7216,"date":"2009-06-29T06:31:48","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T10:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=7216"},"modified":"2009-06-30T04:40:13","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T08:40:13","slug":"japan-america-society-roundup-6-29-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/29\/japan-america-society-roundup-6-29-09\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan America Society Roundup 6.29.09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Current Hiroshima-ken JET <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/gailsensei.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Gail Meadows<\/a><\/strong>, co-editor of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wideislandview.com\" target=\"_blank\">Wide Island View<\/a><\/strong>, shines a light on some of the upcoming events of various Japan America societies\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newportevents.com\/Blackships\/main.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">JAS of Rhode Island<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/japan-cc.com\/images\/taiko.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"154\" \/>Black Ships Festiva<\/strong>l \u2014 Enjoy a variety of events emphasizing Japanese art and culture at the 26th annual Black Ships Festival, an event that commemorates Commodore Matthew Perry\u2019s negotiation of the Treaty of Kanagawa in 1854, ending two centuries of Japanese isolationism. A highlight of the festival is the annual Festival of Drums, featuring thundering performances by taiko drummers.\n<ul>\n<li>Date: <strong>July 16-19<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Place:<\/li>\n<li>For more information, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.us-japan.org\/boston\/Calendar_files\/BlackShips09Schedule.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.us-japan.org\/jassw\/\" target=\"_blank\">JAS of the State of Washington<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Summer Picnic<\/strong> \u2013 Beer, barbecue and yakisoba? <em>Oishisou<\/em>! Find it at this summer event co-hosted by the JASSW and the Japan Business Association of Seattle. Tickets are $20 for JAS members, $10 for children 10 and under, free for children 4 and under.\n<ul>\n<li>Date: <strong>Sunday, July 26<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Time: 4 to 7 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>Place: Newport Yacht Club, 81 Skagit Key, Bellevue, Washington<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pspinc.com\/jassw\/register-7-26-09.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Register here<\/a> by July 22.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.us-japan.org\/boston\/Home.html\" target=\"_blank\">JS of Boston<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thesmokingcamera.com\/img\/v4\/p367122234-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"153\" \/>11th Annual Lantern Festival<\/strong> \u2014 JSB invites members to attend this moving memorial ceremony inspired by Buddhist rituals. Inscribe a lantern with a personal message to friends or family and float it across Lake Hibiscus at sunset. This ritual is based on the traditional Japanese Bon Festival, a time when a door opens to the world of ancestors, allowing us to send messages to the other side.\n<ul>\n<li>Date: <strong>Thursday, July 16<\/strong> (Rain date Thursday, July 23)<\/li>\n<li>Time: 6 to 9 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>Place: Forest Hills Cemetery, 95 Forest Hills Ave., Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts<\/li>\n<li>For more information, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foresthillstrust.org\/calendar.html\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jask.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">JAS of Kentucky<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Summer Family Festival<\/strong> \u2014 This summer, JASK introduces this new event, a large-scale outdoor festival for families to experience Japanese cuisine and culture. Visitors can enjoy origami, calligraphy, dressing up in kimono, a Nintendo Wii tournament, a Japanese flea market, martial arts performances, taiko drums and more.\n<ul>\n<li>Date: <strong>Saturday, August 22<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Time: 1 to 7 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>Place: Jacobson Park, Shelter 1, Lexington<\/li>\n<li>For more information, <a href=\"http:\/\/jask.org\/events?eventId=67614&amp;EventViewMode=2&amp;CalendarViewType=1&amp;SelectedDate=8\/20\/2009\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Does your Japan America Society have an upcoming event that you\u2019d like to share with JetWit readers? <strong><a href=\"mailto:japansociety@jetwit.com\">Email Gail Meadows<\/a><\/strong> with the info.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current Hiroshima-ken JET Gail Meadows, co-editor of the Wide Island View, shines a light on some of the upcoming events of various Japan America societies\u2026 JAS of Rhode Island Black Ships Festival \u2014 Enjoy a variety of events emphasizing Japanese art and culture at the 26th annual Black Ships Festival, an event that commemorates Commodore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-society-round-up"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-1So","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7216"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7259,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7216\/revisions\/7259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}