• Please join us in celebrating the reuniting of partners, family and kids that have enjoyed the Nichi Bei Times for many, many years.

• On the launch of the new Nichi Bei Foundation — publishers of the first nonprofit ethnic newspaper of its kind in the country, the Nichi Bei Weekly — we are raising much-needed funds in order to keep the Japanese American community connected, informed and empowered.

• We will be watching Japanese American catcher Kurt Suzuki and the Oakland A’s take on Japanese baseball legend Ichiro Suzuki and the Seattle Mariners, which is managed by the Bay Area’s own Don Wakamatsu, the first Asian American manager in Major League Baseball.

Click here to purchase tickets or become a sponsor!

Have your artwork featured on the cover of the Nichi Bei Weekly’s Anime/Manga Special Edition, an win professional art supplies and software!

Submissions DUE BY SUNDAY, JULY 11, 2010 at NOON.

Click here for more information.

Sunday, Dec. 6
1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California
1840 Sutter St., SF’s Japantown.

How will the community be kept informed with the closure of Northern California’s two Japanese American bilingual newspapers? How will this impact community organizations? Arising out of the ashes of the Nichi Bei Times, how is the Nichi Bei Foundation and its nonprofit publication — the Nichi Bei Weekly — functioning? Does the community need a Japanese-language press?

Co-sponsored by the Japanese American National Library, National Japanese American Historical Society, the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California, the Nichi Bei Foundation and the Nichi Bei Weekly.

For more information: (415) 673-1009 or info@nichibeifoundation.org.

The New Nichi Bei Weekly: Sacramento Community Forum and Fundraiser

Sunday, November 15
2 to 4 p.m.
Asian Community Center
7375 Park City Drive, Sacramento, CA
(off Greenhaven Drive by I-5 & Florin Road Exit West)

Refreshments will be served. Please RSVP by Nov. 10 to: andynoguchi@hotmail.com or Andy at (916) 978-6121.

• Learn about the new Nichi Bei Weekly, a nonprofit publication of the Nichi Bei Foundation arising out of the ashes of the Nichi Bei Times.

• Share your ideas

• Meet Nichi Bei Weekly Editor and Nichi Bei Foundation President Kenji G. Taguma, writers, and supporters such as Nichi Bei Foundation board member Wayne Maeda (CSU Sacramento Ethnic Studies) and Advisory Council members Andy Noguchi and Twila Tomita (Florin JACL).

• Tax-deductible donations to “Nichi Bei Foundation,” a charitable and educational nonprofit organization, are welcome

Sponsored by more than 20 community leaders — including California State Assemblywoman Mariko Yamada (honorary), SMUD Board member Genevieve Shiroma (honorary), CSU Sacramento VP Carole Hayashino, Isao Fujimoto (UC Davis Asian American Studies Professor Emeritus), Sharon Ito and Ryan Yamamoto (News 10 TV journalists), Georgette and Roy Imura (public interest consultant and partner), Florin JACL President Marielle Tsukamoto, Barbara Takei (Tule Lake Committee), Fumie Shimada (Florin JACL Civil Rights Co-Chair), Sacramento City College Counselor Keith Muraki and Nichi Bei Weekly political columnist Bill Wong — and the Florin JACL [partial list and positions for ID purposes only].

The Nichi Bei Foundation is a sponsored project of Community Initiatives, which is an exempt organization as defined by Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code and, accordingly, your gift is deductible to the full extent permitted by law. Federal nonprofit identification number is 943255070.