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Friday, March 15, 2013

Pittsburgh Sakura Project 2013 Spring Planting Festival, April 6.

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The Pittsburgh Sakura Project will hold its annual Spring Planting Festival in North Park on April 6 from 1:00 to 3:00. Since 2009 the ...

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry at Mercyhurst University, March 22.

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The documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry will run on March 22 as part of Mercyhurst University's Maria J. Langer Film Series . The doc...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Korean films The Thieves (도둑들) and Architecture 101 (건축학개론) at Pitt this month.

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The movies The Thieves (도둑들) and Architecture 101 (건축학개론) will comprise this spring's Korean Film Festival at the University of Pit...

名所フィラデルフィア百景: 100 Famous Views of Philadelphia.

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Artist Matthew Meyer is now selling prints from his Japan-inspired "100 Famous Views of Philadelphia" . They're amazing, th...
Monday, March 11, 2013

"Teruko Shiono is a one-woman Japanese-American amity committee in the Pittsburgh area".

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We recently learned of the passing of Ms. Teruko Shiono, whose obituary was published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette yesterday . She helpe...
Sunday, March 10, 2013

Japanese-American detainees to "feel the warm friendliness of the people of Pittsburgh"; papers tell story of wartime Japanese-American relocation to Pittsburgh.

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The archives of local newspapers trace the brief history of Pittsburgh's involvement in the imprisonment and forced relocation of Japane...
Saturday, March 9, 2013

Hina Matsuri Doll Exhibit at Maridon Museum, through May 3.

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"Hinamatsuri in Hiketa", by mars2015 . Butler's Maridon Museum has a Hina Matsuri Doll Exhibit now through May 3rd, in add...

Foreign students protest working conditions at PA McDonald's.

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Via the Wall Street Journal and others comes news of foreign student workers protesting conditions at the Harrisburg McDonald's at whic...

Let the Bullets Fly (让子弹飞) at IUP, March 13.

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The second installment of Indiana University of Pennsylvania's Asian Studies Club Film Festival is the Chinese movie Let the Bullets ...
Friday, March 8, 2013

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Chatham College students posing in Japanese costumes, 1923, for a May Day performance. From the Chatham University Archives Image Collect...