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    Obon Festival

    San Jose Buddhist Church Betsuin 640 North 5th Street, San Jose, CA, United States

    Japantown celebrates the San Jose Obon festival, a time when generations of families and friends come together and enjoy a rich cultural experience in one of the three remaining Japantowns in the United States. Japantown’s largest festival with two days of game booths, food booths, the Chidori Band, three taiko performances each day including San […]

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    Nihonmachi Annual San Jose Day of Remembrance

    San Jose Buddhist Church Betsuin 640 North 5th Street, San Jose, CA, United States

    In the days following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the FBI rounded up thousands of Japanese immigrants who were detained without charges. Then, on February 19, 1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, forcing 120,000 Japanese Americans into concentration camps. The Commission on the Wartime Relocation and Incarceration of Civilians concluded that this […]