The John G. Tower Center for Political Studies presents a luncheon program on Japanese citizens' response to the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011. Professor Nicolas Sternsdorff-Cisterna, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at SMU, explores how ordinary people in Fukushima formed organizations, exchanged knowledge, and found ways of screening and sourcing food.
Visit the Dallas Japanese Association's annual Fall Festival for Japanese food, games, and activities. Stop by the Japan-America Society booth to say hello!
Ikebana International Dallas Chapter #13 and Sogetsu Dallas Branch present Kiku Matsuri (Chrysanthemum Festival) at the Texas State Fair. The festival will feature three sculptures, two demonstrations, and individual arrangements by members.
Enjoy traditional Japanese dance, music, martial arts, sword demonstrations, raku pottery, tea ceremony and more at the beautiful Japanese Garden at Fort Worth Botanic Garden
Celebrate 30 years of friendship between Fort Worth and Nagaoka, Sister Cities since 1987. Join Nagaoka Mayor Tatsunobu Isoda and other distinguished guests from Japan at Billy Bob's for dinner and Texas-style entertainment
Anime North Texas is an annual convention centered on Japanese animation and pop culture. Experience two days of anime screenings, cosplay contests, industry guests, gaming sessions, and more
The John G. Tower Center for Political Studies presents Mr. Naoyuki Agawa, who currently teaches American constitutional law and history as Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. Mr. Agawa served as Minister for Public Affairs in charge of public diplomacy and press relations at the Embassy of Japan in Washington, D.C. on leave of absence from Keio University (2002 – 2005).
Join the SMU Tower Center Sun & Star Program on Japan and East Asia and the Mission Foods Texas-Mexico Center for a joint symposium looking at the economic and political relations between Japan, Mexico and Texas.
Now through August 14, 2018
JASDFW's community partner, the Dallas Holocaust Museum for Education and Tolerance, features 50 photographs by Ansel Adams documenting Manzanar, the Japanese American internment camp in California during World War II. These photographs were the subject of his controversial book Born Free and Equal, published in 1944 while the war was still on, protesting the treatment of Japanese in the United States.
