Happy New Year!
Takahide Akiyama, president of the Japan Society of Northern California, wishes you a happy and healthy new year.
Takahide Akiyama is the new president of Japan Society of Northern California
The Japan Society of Northern California (JSNC) announced today the appointment of Takahide Akiyama as its President to lead its mission to promote strong ties between the Bay Area and Japan, [...]
Restricting Foreign Investment in Silicon Valley: How to Deal with New National Security Review Rules
On September 17th we met at Sony Interactive Entertainment’s San Mateo Studio to hear about the updated restrictions on foreign investment into US firms, known as the Foreign Investment Risk [...]
Shades of Gray: Age-tech reshapes elderly healthcare in Japan
On Tuesday September 10th Dr. Tae Hyun Kim, Professor John Campbell, and Joseph Schmidt talked about different aspects of Japan’s (and the world’s) aging society, how technology can be used to [...]
How Silicon Valley Start-Ups Can Make it in Japan
On August 28th Alan Mockridge, President of Intralink North America, and Matthew Fuller, partner at Geodesic Capital, gave an incredibly informative presentation on their experience with bringing [...]
Traveling to Japan in 2020
On August 27th Kay Cuellar from the Japan National Tourism Organization came all the way from Los Angeles to talk about travel to Japan in 2020 and beyond and to share some information about the [...]
US-Japan Friendship Cup Tennis Tournament
On Sunday August 25th, 68 players and a handful of spectators gathered for our 30th US-Japan Friendship Tennis tournament. They were able to play tennis, meet new people, have good food, and [...]
JSNC Volunteers at the 2019 Prefontaine Diamond Classic
Japan Society of Northern California’s Road to Tokyo 2020 Initiative kicked off with its first major sporting event engagement on June 30, 2019. We were involved with the famous Prefontaine [...]
Exciting Races at the Prefontaine Classic Track & Field Meet
This past weekend was the Prefontaine Classic Track Meet held at Stanford University. This meet is part of the IAAF Diamond League, an annual series of prestigious track & field competitions. [...]
Japanese Jazz: The Playlist
March 21st, InterMusicSF Executive Director Cory Combs took us through time and space to analyze the history of Japanese jazz music. Videos and audio clips from Japan’s war reconstruction [...]
