{"id":19428,"date":"2022-03-27T20:00:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T03:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/?post_type=socaljapan&#038;p=19428"},"modified":"2022-03-27T01:16:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T08:16:28","slug":"2022-03-27","status":"publish","type":"socaljapan","link":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/socaljapan\/2022-03-27\/","title":{"rendered":"March 27th 2022 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;\">March 27th 2022 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\/KNiYHwRPfWE\" 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>Terasaki Budokan Grand Open<\/h2>\n<p>Saturday, March 12th was the grand opening of the Paul I. Terasaki Budokan.<\/p>\n<p>This multipurpose gym was built by the nonprofit organization providing social services, Little Tokyo Service Center.<\/p>\n<p>Operation began last year but they could not open their doors due to COVID-19, so they finally had the opening ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Friday the 11th was the ribbon-cutting ceremony with representatives from each organization.<br \/>\nAnd Saturday the 12th was the grand opening inviting the public.<br \/>\nCity and state representatives attended the ceremony and congratulated the accomplishment.<\/p>\n<p>Former NBA player and\t Basketball Hall of Famer Jerry West was also invited, and he stated the importance of this gym.<\/p>\n<p>This project began in 1994 to  attract younger people to Little Tokyo, and the total construction cost increased to 33.8 million dollars.<br \/>\nThe construction finally finished with the help of government subsidies and donations from public investors.<br \/>\nAkira Fujimoto who has a business in Little Tokyo is one of many who donated to the project.<\/p>\n<p>The gym can be used for sports use as it has two basketball courts and a competition space formartial arts.<br \/>\nThe 1st level has a performance stage, a courtyard, and a community room.<br \/>\nThe 2nd level has an outdoor terrace with a children&#8217;s playground.<br \/>\n55 cars can be parked at their underground parking and is accommodating to different needs of the community.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2>2 Years with COVID-19 Part 4<br \/>\nJETRO<\/h2>\n<p>It has been 2 years since the lockdown in LA due to COVID-19. We asked businesses the challenges they had to face and their future outlooks. We will close this series with Japan External Trade Organization, JETRO.<\/p>\n<p>JETRO is a non-profit organization connecting businesses with the resources they need to successfully expand overseas. They support different businesses from product, technology, to service, and they also put efforts into Japanese food.<\/p>\n<p>That is why JETRO started a showroom in LA last year, introducing Japanese food products to English speaking industry people.<\/p>\n<p>JETRO states Japanese companies aiming to do business abroad must have arrangements to be successful in the age of new normal.<\/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 Terasaki Budokan Grand Open<br \/>\n\u2022 2 Years with COVID-19 Part 4<br \/>\nJETRO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":19435,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"socaljapan_category":[276],"socaljapan_tag":[],"class_list":["post-19428","socaljapan","type-socaljapan","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","socaljapan_category-2022-03-march"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/socaljapan\/19428","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=19428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/socaljapan\/19428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19429,"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/socaljapan\/19428\/revisions\/19429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"socaljapan_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/socaljapan_category?post=19428"},{"taxonomy":"socaljapan_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/socaljapan_tag?post=19428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}