Announcing the JAL Foundation 17th Annual World Children's Haiku Contest 2021-22! JAL FOUNDATION biennially organizes the 'World Children's Haiku Contest', and we are happy to announce that the 17th contest is to be held this year. The theme of the 17th contest is 'Towns.' Through the contest, children are given the opportunity to compose haiku […]
Following Japan’s bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Japanese Americans living on the West Coast were removed from their homes under the terms of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066. Nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were U.S. citizens, were stripped of their civil rights and forced into incarceration camps across […]
This class has reached its capacity of students. If you would like to be put on the waiting list, please email your name and contract details to ikuko@jasdfw.org. This course is a continuation of Japanese Language Class 1 and designed for beginning level learners who have some or very little knowledge of basic Japanese. This […]
Although its East Asian neighbor may receive many of the headlines, Japan is the #1 foreign investor into both the U.S. and North Texas economies. Japan plays a vital and essential role in the well-being of Americans' lives, and this is a story not often shared in the media. Dallas is also home to three […]