{"id":17673,"date":"2019-11-10T20:00:31","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T22:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/?post_type=socaljapan&#038;p=17673"},"modified":"2019-11-25T16:37:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T18:37:44","slug":"2019-11-10","status":"publish","type":"socaljapan","link":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/socaljapan\/2019-11-10\/","title":{"rendered":"November 10th 2019 O.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p><\/p>\n<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">November 10th 2019 O.A.<\/h2>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/avB_P01LB1Q\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2>Nagoya Day Los Angeles<\/h2>\n<p>This year marks the 60th anniversary as Nagoya, Japan and LA became sister cities.<br \/>\nSaturday, October 26th was a commemorative event at a shopping mall in Century City.<br \/>\n&#8220;The event was held by the LA Nagoya Sister City Association.<br \/>\nMayor Takashi Kawamura from Nagoya and LA Mayor Eric Garcetti attended the event.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe two cities became sister cities in 1959 since they are both major cities that have international trading ports.<br \/>\nBoth mayors stated their commemorative speeches at the opening ceremony and traded souvenirs.<br \/>\nPromotional goods, travel guide and tasting booth of Nagoya Cochin was at the event. And Nagoya\u2019s idol group, Dela performed.<\/p>\n<p>Tea ceremony, Japanese confection making, tie dye experience was available and the event promoted Nagoya and the Chubu region of Japan to the attendees.<\/p>\n<p>A dinner party was held for the VIP afterwards. Mayor Kawamura did the toast as representatives of US\/Japanese businesses and organizations attended to celebrate the 60th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2>Japan Cuts Hollywood<\/h2>\n<p>From Friday, November 1st was Japan Cuts Hollywood Film Festival for 3 days at the TCL Chinese 6 Theatres.<br \/>\nThis film festival is held by the Japan America Society of SoCal and Japan House LA. Many great Japanese films were shown.<br \/>\nDirectors and casts from participating films, industry individuals walked the red carpet at the opening day.<br \/>\nThe opening movie was \u201cBento Harassment\u201d.<br \/>\nTaking place on Hachij\u014d-jima, a single mother seeks communication with her high school daughter through the bento lunch she prepares for her.<br \/>\nRyoko Shinohara who starred in the film and Director Renpei Tsukamoto came from Japan for the event.<\/p>\n<p>Director Renpei Tsukamoto and Ryoko Shinohara also participated in the Q&amp;A session that happened after the showing.<\/p>\n<p>Other films include \u201cTen Years Japan\u201d by Hirokazu Kore-eda, \u201cNo Longer Human\u201d directed by Mika Ninagawa and starring Shun Oguri. A total of 14 feature\/short films were shown in the 3 day event.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 14 feature\/short films were shown at the 3 day event, and panel discussions by the participants were also held.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2>Calligraphy Exhibition<\/h2>\n<p>A calligraphy exhibition was held at Little Tokyo\u2019s JACCC.<\/p>\n<p>This is held by the Beikoku Shodo Kenkyu-kai and 6 female calligraphers\u2019 works were displayed.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, October 5th was the opening ceremony and many representatives from Japanese organizations attended. Demonstrations were held by the Shodo Kenkyu-kai and President, Hiroko Ikuta.<\/p>\n<p>Shodo Kenkyu-kai started in 1965 and has been active since to spread Japanese calligraphy in the US.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition also displays works from younger calligraphers as well.\t<\/p>\n<p>The calligraphy exhibition is running until next week, Sunday October 20th at JACCC first floor in Doizaki Gallery.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] November 10th 2019 O.A. [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text] Nagoya Day Los Angeles This year marks the 60th anniversary as Nagoya, Japan and LA became sister cities. Saturday, October 26th was a commemorative event at a shopping mall in Century City. &#8220;The event was held by the LA Nagoya Sister City Association. Mayor Takashi Kawamura from <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/socaljapan\/2019-11-10\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":17675,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"socaljapan_category":[231],"socaljapan_tag":[],"class_list":["post-17673","socaljapan","type-socaljapan","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","socaljapan_category-2019-11-november"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/socaljapan\/17673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/socaljapan"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/socaljapan"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17673"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/socaljapan\/17673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17707,"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/socaljapan\/17673\/revisions\/17707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"socaljapan_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/socaljapan_category?post=17673"},{"taxonomy":"socaljapan_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/socaljapan_tag?post=17673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}