San Francisco Bay Area Japanese Culture Web Sites
Museums and gardens:
- Asian Art Museum Covering
all of Asia with a good selection of Japanese art works.
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- Lake Merritt Japanese Garden Oakland's own Japanese garden. More info on one of the craftsmen can be found at: Hiroshi Sakaguchi's Works at the Lake Merritt Japanese Garden
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- Strybing Arboretum &
Botanical Gardens Includes a Japanese style Garden
Organizations:
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- General:
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- Cal-Japan Club
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- Center for Japanese
Studies (U.C. Berkeley)
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- Japan Society of Northern
California
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- Japanese
American History Archives
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- Tomodachi U.C. Berkeley
Club
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- Anime (Japanese animation):
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- Albany:
- Beefbowl Anime
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- Berkeley:
- Cal-Animage
Alpha. Free showings during the school year.
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- Campbell:
- CA West
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- Los Altos:
- Foothill Anime
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- Palo Alto:
- Stanford
New Type
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- San Francisco:
- Anime FX San
Francisco State University's anime club
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- San Jose:
- No Name Anime
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- Tsunami Anime:
San Jose State University's anime and manga club
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- San Mateo:
- CSM
Japanese Animation Association
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- Art, music, theater, books:
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- Pacific Film
Archive Often shows Japanese cinema.
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- San Francisco Taiko Dojo
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- San Jose Taiko
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- Stone Bridge Press
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- Ikebana:
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- Ikebana International
SF Bay Area Chapter
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- Sogetsu San Francisco
Bay Area Branch (Ikebana)
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- Wafu
School - California Chapter (Ikebana)
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Newspapers and magazines:
- NikkeiWest Publishing
since 1992 for the English-speaking Japanese American community
in Northern California. Most of each issue is available online
as PDF files. You need to Download
the free Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader to read these.
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Television:
Note; TV Guide and the local newspapers do not have accurate
listings for non-English broadcasting so check the web pages for
accurate information.
- KTSF Channel 26
- The station for Japanese programing in Northern California.
Check their Saturday and Sunday evening schedules for the Japanese
shows.
- This page has a more accurate schedule than the pages for
the companies below.
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- Fuji-Com Plaza
- Providing a large portion of Japanese TV broadcasting in
the Bay Area. Cable not required, these shows are on channel
26. The bulk of their programming is on Saturday night and most
of it subtitled, during the week they bring the some of the morning
news shows.
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- TTV - Tokyo TV
- The folks who bring you the late Saturday night and Sunday
night Channel 26 broadcasts. As well as the subtitled weekday
news show News Express FCI and the Japanese only NHK News.
Shopping
- For shopping districts see my Shin
Anime Shopper's Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area which
while it is focused on anime and manga includes information on
major shopping areas for Japanese goods.
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