Please join us for a very special event, The Hibaku Violin – World Peace Prayer Performance Tour 2026 on April 14, Tuesday from 6:30-8:00pm. The performance will be at the JACL Hall, 424 Adams Street, Monterey, CA. (Hibaku in Japanese refers to being bombed, specifically experiencing an atomic bombing, or being exposed to radiation.) Kanon […]
Please join us on Saturday, March 14th at 6:00pm for the documentary screening and filmmaker discussion of Fruits of Labor (2021). The screening will be at the JACL Hall, 424 Adams Street, Monterey, CA. Directed by Emily Cohen Ibañez, Ph.D., the film is about a Mexican-American teenager who dreams of graduating high school, when increased
The Japanese Film Festival 2026 continues with its second film screening. Please join us on Saturday, January 31 from 5:00pm-8:00pm for the screening of Tampopo. Directed by Juzo Itami, Tampopo is a rapturous “ramen Western”. The tale of an enigmatic band of ramen ronin who guide the widow of a noodle shop owner on her
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Please join us for the January Nakayoshi Event: a special Japanese New Year’s Tea Ceremony demonstration in the Urasenke tradition on Saturday, January 3 from 1:00-3:00pm. Based upon the simple acts of preparing and presenting tea with grace and respect while being received with appreciation and gratitude. Street parking is available for 2 hours. There
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The Japanese Film Festival 2026, sponsored by the City of Monterey and the Japanese American Citizens League of Monterey Peninsula will present six screenings of Japanese and Japan-adjacent films from the 1950’s to the present. Films will span multiple genres with most presented in Japanese with English subtitles. The first film screening, The Hidden Fortress
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As part of our 100th anniversary celebration of the Monterey JACL Hall, join us for a picnic on Saturday, November 22, 2025 at the Point Lobos State Park at the Piney Woods picnic area. 100 years ago on the same day and at the same spot, the Monterey Japanese community held a picnic in honor
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Please join us for the November Nakayoshi Event: Ornament Making on Saturday, November 1 from 1:00-3:00pm. Learn how to make beautiful clam shell ornaments. All materials will be provided, but feel free to bring small swatches of your favorite fabric and your own shells. Street parking is available for 2 hours. There is free parking
Please join us on Sunday, October 19th from 12:00-2:00pm for the Monterey JACL Heritage Museum Fundraiser Lunch. Chicken Teriyaki lunch is $25.00 per person. For take-out only, preorder by October 12th. Contact Ellie at 831-915-9728. The event will take place at the Monterey JACL Hall, 424 Adams Street. Free parking is available in the adjacent
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Please join us for a very special October Nakayoshi Event: History of Immigration on Saturday, October 4, 2025 from 1:00-3:00pm. Japanese historian, Hayato Sakurai will give a lecture on Japanese immigration from Japan to Monterey. Hayato is part of group of historians and museum curators from the Chiba and Wakayama prefectures who are visiting Monterey
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On September 27, 2025 (Saturday) from 10:00 am-2:00pm, the public is invited to Nanao Day, a cultural celebration of the 30th anniversary of the signing of the sister city agreement between the City of Monterey, California and the City of Nanao, Ishikawa, Japan. Twenty delegates from Japan, including Mayor Chatani of Nanao, Japan, will visit
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