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Japantown Task Force

Please plan to join Peace Plaza Committee Co-Chairs Jon Osaki and Rich Hashimoto to welcome House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday, April 12 at a special press announcement, 1:00 pm at the Peace Plaza. Afterwards, there will be a tour of Kinmon Gakuen/Golden Gate Institute. On the way there, the group will stop by Ruth Asawa fountains and visit some businesses if time allows.

4月12日午後1時、Emerita Nancy Pelosi 氏(エメリタ・ナンシー・ペロシ氏)がピースプラザを訪れ、その後、金門学園やアサワ・ルースの噴水などをまわります。どうぞ皆様12日午後1時ピースプラザへお越しください。

 

Reminder: Commemoration of James Wakasa

Also happening on the Peace Plaza is a James Wakasa Memorial the day before, at 1 pm, Tuesday, April 11, Peace Plaza. This event is being organized by the Wakasa Memorial Committee.

リマインダーです。4月11日ピースプラザにて午後1時から2時まで、ジェームス・ハツアキ・ワカサのメモリアル式典が行われます。

 

Volunteers Needed at Cherry Blossom Festival!

Do you have a few hours to help out the Japantown Task Force? We will have an outreach booth featuring origami, stencils, and calligraphy on Post Street and need helpers on Sat, 4/8, Sun, 4/9, and Sat, 4/15. Shifts are 2 hours long from 10 am - 6 pm. We especially need help from 4:30-5:30 pm on each day. The location of the JTF booth is across from the Information Booth on the Peace Plaza breezeway. We will be hosting city staff working on the Peace Plaza Renovation and Osaka Way Upgrade (Sat, 4/8, 1-5 pm & Sun, 4/9, 1-3 pm) who would be happy to answer your questions about these projects that are expected to break ground in 2024. Come say hello! If you would like to volunteer, please sign up at this link. Also, the Japantown Cultural District Visitor Center will have a very very very soft opening this weekend, with just a few things to share, but please stop by, 2nd floor of the Japan Center East Mall.


全米最大の桜祭り、今年は56回目です。今週末と来週末の4月8、 9、15、16日、10時から6時までの間で2時間、JTFのキオスクでボランヒアしませんか?折り紙、ステンシル、書道など、楽しい活動を用意しています。JTFのブースはピースプラザの入口、インフォメーションセンターの隣です。来年はピースプラザの改修工事が行われる予定ですので、ぜひ今年ご参加ください。サインインシートはこちら。特に午後3時から5時過ぎまでのボランティアが必要です。よろしくお願いします。また桜祭りの週末にジュアパンセンターカルチャーディストリクトのビジターセンターがイーストモール2階にソフトオープニングします。お立ち寄りください。

                 Photo credit: Mark Shigenaga

 

SAVE THE DATE: Don Tamaki, Appointee of Governor Gavin Newsom to the California Reparations Task Force, will be the Guest Speaker at the JTF Board Meeting, Wed, 4/19 @ 1765 Sutter Street, 1st Fl Conference Room

Please join us at the 4/19 JTF Board Meeting to hear from Don Tamaki who was appointed by Governor Gavin Newsom to serve on the California Reparations Task Force. Don is scheduled to speak between 6-7 pm. 


Here is a message from Don to the community:

We convened in June of 2021, and on June 1, 2022, fulfilled our first charge of publishing a sweeping, nearly 500 page report drawing a through line from the harm of 246 years of slavery, 90 years of Jim Crow and racial terror, and decades more of continuing discrimination---to today’s outcomes—which are at once shocking but sadly, not surprising. Here’s the link to the Report. It’s a lot to read, so check out the 29 page Executive Summary,  or the Introduction which give previews to the Report. Or you can browse selected chapters such as “Segregation—the Root of Many Evils” which covers housing. The Task Force is now focusing on developing recommendations for remedies to be submitted to the Legislature by June 30, 2023 at which point the Task Force will sunset.  Simultaneously, we are developing recommendations to educate the public as to why reparations are long overdue.


Please join us in-person at the National JACL Headquarters building, 1765 Sutter Street, or via Zoom. The Zoom link is included in the meeting agenda which will be posted here before the meeting.

4月19日午後6時から行われるJTFボードミーティングにて、州知事ニューソンギャビンに指名されたタマキ・ダン氏をスピーカーとして招きました。どうぞ皆様ご参加ください。このミーティングはハイブリッドで行われます。Zoomリンクはこちらから。JACLヘッドクオーター、1765 Sutter Street1階会議室にて行われます。彼のレポートやサマリーなど上記リンクからご覧ください。

 

UPCOMING JTF MEETINGS IN MARCH

For agendas and Zoom links, go to the JTF website.

  • Thurs, 4/6/23, 6-8 pm: Land Use & Transportation Committe

  • Wed, 4/19/23, 6-8 pm: JTF Board Meeting (in person and via Zoom)

  • Tues, 4/25/23, 5-6 pm: Peace Plaza Committee

    JTF各委員会の3月・4月定例ミーティングの開催日と時間のお知らせです。議題内容やZoomリンク等は、JTF website からどうぞ。

 

Japantown Task Force, Inc.
1765 Sutter Street, 3rd floor
San Francisco, CA 94115
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