Join us for Japan Day, a celebration of Japanese cultural arts, featuring free performances, activities, and demonstrations!

In the Japantown Peace Plaza, enjoy live performances in taiko drumming, karate, Japanese folk dance, Okinawan taiko & karate, and the Gintenkai National Project.

Next door, in the West Mall, you can get hands-on activities and demonstrations in origami paper folding, shodo Japanese brush calligraphy, and washi ningyo paper dolls.

Peace Plaza Performances

12:00PM – 12:30PM

GEN TAIKO AND ODORI SCHOOL

Japanese Traditional Drum and Dance performances

12:30PM – 12:45PM

GINTENKAI NATIONAL PROJECT

Japanese Traditional Drum – Chicago and San Francisco collaboration

12:45PM – 1:20PM

SAKURA REN

Japanese Dance Group

1:30PM – 2:00PM

PAGES

Electric shamisen, Taiko, and Saxophone performance

2:00PM – 2:35PM

SAKURA REN

Japanese Dance Group

2:35PM – 2:50PM

SHORINJI KEMPO

Japanese Martial Art

2:50PM – 3:15PM

“THE MEETING” FEATURING

FRANCIS WONG AND TATSU AOKI

Special music performance

3:15PM – 4:00PM

OSHIRO KARATE DOJO &

OKINAWA EISA SHIMA DAIKO

Japanese Karate group and Okinawan Taiko group

West Mall Demonstrations

12:00PM – 1:00PM

WASHI NINGYO

Japanese Paper Dolls

1:30PM – 2:30PM

ORIGAMI

Art of Japanese Paper folding

3:00PM – 4:00PM

SHODO

Japanese Calligraphy