{"id":18789,"date":"2021-08-08T20:20:51","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T03:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/?post_type=socaljapan&#038;p=18789"},"modified":"2021-08-09T02:33:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T09:33:36","slug":"2021-08-08","status":"publish","type":"socaljapan","link":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/socaljapan\/2021-08-08\/","title":{"rendered":"August 8th 2021 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;\">August 8th 2021 O.A.<\/h2>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DzbGe94AIbY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" 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>Lions Clubs International<\/h2>\n<p>July 24th was the Installations of Officers and Governors Gala of Lions Clubs International at a hotel in Montebello.<\/p>\n<p>Lions Clubs International is a service organization founded in 1917.<br \/>\nThere are 48,000 local clubs in more than 200 countries around the world with 1.4 million members.<\/p>\n<p>There are 32 clubs around the outskirts of LA including Little Tokyo Lions Club. District 4-L1 supervises these clubs.<\/p>\n<p>100 representatives from each club within the district attended the ceremony.<br \/>\nThe oath started with their motto \u201cWe serve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Followed by the announcement of the new board members, and Trudy Nodohara became the new District Governor.<\/p>\n<p>Trudy Nodohara has been working as a business consultant in Little Tokyo as well as running an entertainment business, and has been a part of the club for 28 years.<\/p>\n<p>President Kaoru Kawata of Japanese Chamber of Commerce of SoCal and 3 others were introduced as new members of the Little Tokyo club.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2>Visas for Life<\/h2>\n<p>The California Legislature designated July 29th as Sugihara Visas Day to memorialize Chiune Sugihara for saving thousands of Jewish lives.<\/p>\n<p>Sugihara was a vice consul for Japanese consulate in Lithuania during WWII.<br \/>\nHe defied the orders of the Japanese government and issued transit visas to Jewish refugees that would allow them to pass through Japan and take refuge in other countries.<\/p>\n<p>The visas were issued to more than 2,100 people and became known as \u201cVisas for Life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>July 29th is when Sugihara first issued the visa and California Senator Robert Hertzberg stated \u201cI hope this day will remember and celebrate Sugihara\u2019s great achievement\u201d in his message.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/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>\u2022 Lions Clubs International<br \/>\n\u2022 Visas for Life<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":18791,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"socaljapan_category":[259],"socaljapan_tag":[],"class_list":["post-18789","socaljapan","type-socaljapan","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","socaljapan_category-2021-08_august"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/socaljapan\/18789","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=18789"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/socaljapan\/18789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18792,"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/socaljapan\/18789\/revisions\/18792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"socaljapan_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/socaljapan_category?post=18789"},{"taxonomy":"socaljapan_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/socaljapan_tag?post=18789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}