{"id":19529,"date":"2022-05-22T20:00:33","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T03:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/?post_type=socaljapan&#038;p=19529"},"modified":"2022-05-23T05:50:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T12:50:42","slug":"2022-05-22","status":"publish","type":"socaljapan","link":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/socaljapan\/2022-05-22\/","title":{"rendered":"May 22nd 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;\">May 22nd 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\/kB12KW7gAsU\" 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][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2>Little Tokyo Sparkle<\/h2>\n<p>Saturday, May 14th was \u201cLittle Tokyo Sparkle Nancy Kikuchi Volunteer Day.<\/p>\n<p>This volunteer started with Little Tokyo resident, Steve Nagano calling out to the community saying \u201cLet\u2019s clean our historical town together.<\/p>\n<p>It was done annually prior to 2019, but had to be canceled due to the impact of COVID-19. The 5th time happened for the first time in 3 years.<\/p>\n<p>About 300 volunteers from local businesses to members from community organizations gathered for the cleanup.<\/p>\n<p>Groups  were  assigned  to  an  area within the 3 blocks of Little Tokyo to clean.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers not only picked up trash like cigarette butts but also thoroughly cleaned the windows, scraped waste from the ground, and got rid of graffitis.<\/p>\n<p>Gomi Hiroi Samurai, a group of performers that cleans the streets of Tokyo also came from Japan to participate in the volunteer work.<\/p>\n<p>More than 20 businesses in Little Tokyo had to close their doors due to the pandemic, however liveliness is starting to come back.<\/p>\n<p>Free lunches were distributed with the help of local restaurants and  food manufacturers after the volunteer work at Noguchi Plaza.<\/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>Little Tokyo Sparkle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":19531,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"socaljapan_category":[279],"socaljapan_tag":[],"class_list":["post-19529","socaljapan","type-socaljapan","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","socaljapan_category-2022-05-may"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/socaljapan\/19529","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=19529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/socaljapan\/19529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19532,"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/socaljapan\/19529\/revisions\/19532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"socaljapan_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/socaljapan_category?post=19529"},{"taxonomy":"socaljapan_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/socaljapan_tag?post=19529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}