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General Member
Full-time Students $25.00
Regular Individual $35.00
Family $55.00
Tomodachi (Friend) $100.00
Circle of Tomodachi $500.00
(Benefits for 5 tomodachi)
Lifetime $3,000.00
Corporate Member
Diamond-Bridge Builder Benefits $5,000
Platinum-Bridge Builder Benefits $3,000
Gold-Bridge Builder Benefits
$2,000
Silver-Bridge Builder Benefits $1,000
Bronze-Bridge Builder Benefits $500
Entrepreneur Benefits $250
Friend Benefit $100
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EVENT FOLLOW-UP 7/28
Summer Kimono & Yukata
Fashion Show
Origami Hands-On
Click on photos for more photos
We were invited to hold the Summer Kimono & Yukata fashion show. After the show, many participants enjoyed folding origami papers.
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EVENT FOLLOWUP 8/23
It was a family friendly, anime showing event on the last day of the 2014 summer break.
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EVENT FOLLOW-UP
9/12-13/14
@ MICHAEL & SUSAN DELL HALL
Anne Akiko Meyers and Satoko Sandy Yamamoto played violins at the Austin Symphony Season Opening concert. Anne is JASGA's lifetime member and Sandy played her violin at the JASGA Friendship Party in October 2013.
Thank to Austin Symphony for offering special discount tickets to all JASGA members!
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EVENT FOLLOW-UP 9/29/14
Austin Aikikai dojo is newly certified as an off-campus PE class for AISD
high school students, and we have some high school students that are
enrolled this semester.
Thanks for the wonderful Aikido demonstration, which created a comfortable atmosphere to the participants.
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Japanese Language Classes
JASGA has started the Fall Japanese language and Calligraphy classes on September 9th and 10th. The classes continue to meet every Tuesday and Wednesday.
AUSTIN:
Lamar Middle School and Fine Arts Academy
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UPCOMING EVENT 12/1
Cultural Art Workshop
Japanese
Sumi-e Workshop
by Taeko Matsumoto
December 1, 2014
@ 7:00pm
TBA
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UPCOMING EVENT 2/2015
Academic Lecture Series
Washoku
The Roots of Gurume Nation
by Dr. Nancy Stalker
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Newsletter Editor/Publisher
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JASGA Newsletter
Fall 2014
is compiled and edited by:
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Kako Ito
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Dear Kako,
It seems Fall has arrived in Austin and central Texas. Volunteers from the Japan-America Society of Greater Austin are working hard to facilitate programs and events for you during these upcoming months. Please take the time to enjoy these activities, which are only made possible through the generous support of our members and sponsors.
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OCTOBER 6th
The moon on the thirteenth night of a lunar month
Jyusan ya
This year, October 6th was Jusanya [十三夜] which literary means the night or the moon on the 13th day of the 9th month in the lunar calendar.
On this night, along with Jugoya - the moon on the 15th night, people enjoy viewing the moon. Unlike Jugoya, this event is unique to Japan.
There are many events including open-air tea ceremonies and gagaku (ancient Japanese court dance and music) performances on this day.
Hope you enjoy the music and performance.
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2014 Aki Matsuri - 秋祭り
JASGA's eighth Annual Japanese Festival
Taiko drums, Japanese traditional and festive dance, traditional musical instruments, the beauty of the Chanoyu ceremony, Japanese martial arts, and Okinawan traditional dance -- all this will bring the esthetic gifts of Japanese culture to Austin and Central Texas during the 2014 Aki Matsuri, Japan Fall Festival.
Visitors will enjoy a range of Japanese food and sweets, drink sampler, art and Japanese goods, Yukata booth, calligraphy, origami hands-on, Japanese games and entertainment.
In addition, there will be a Raffle and Silent Auction for items such as a pair airline tickets to Japan, gift certificates for Japanese restaurants, tea ceremony invitation, massage and face spa visits, art collections, pottery, Anime goods, games, film screening passes, Kimono, Obi, Kimono accessories, door prize, and more!
Those who wear Yukata, Kimono, Matsuri Happi coats, cosplayed and Lorita fashion participants are always welcome! Win the fashion contest, too!
Saturday, November 15 2014 12:00-4:00 PM
@ O. Henry Middle School [map]
Free for JASGA members & under 18;
$5 for non-members
The students who are taking Japanese language classes at LASA and ACC will operate the Japanese game corner.
JASGA thanks everyone who will donate generously to our Fall Festival!
For festival sponsorship and/or donation to Silent Auction, contact jasga-akimatsuri@jasga.org
JASGA's 8th Aki Matsuri - Japan Fall Festival
 
Click on image to download the Flyer.
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RSVP - You are Cordially invited
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to the
Centennial Commemoration of
Dr. Shigetaka Shiga's Presentation
of the
Japanese Monument to the Alamo Heroes
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Wednesday,
Nov. 5, 2014 * 2 p.m.
The Alamo
300 Alamo Plaza *
San Antonio, TX 78205
Reception follows at the Alamo Hall
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Hosted by
the Texas General Land Office and the Alamo
Generous support for this event has been received from:
The Alamo Asian American Chamber of Commerce
The City of San Antonio/International Relations Office
The Japan America Society of San Antonio
Download the invitation flyer.
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New and Renew JASGA Corporate Members
8/1-10/11/2014
Welcome new member! Thanks for renewing!
(Friend $100) (Entrepreneur $250)
Welcome New JASGA General Member
8/1-10/11/2014
Student / Individual / Family Members
($25/$35/$55)
Brotman, Lynne & Ed
Chiba, Alex
Conrad, Paul
Feng, Mary
George, Anna
Hyatt, Zach & & Katrina Anaya
Jamie, Jamie
Little, Meikan Melissa
Mandell, Adam & Summer
Miller, Joel
Piner, Nic
Purvis, Rachel
Reiser, Aaron
Sablan, Gregory
Seymour, Derek & family
Stout, Max
Ta, Michael
Tran, Jimmy
Walker, Jack
Watson, Nori & James
Ichiro & Makiko Umeyama
Renew/Upgraded Friend of JASGA members ($100)
David Fox
Mignon McGarry
Thank you for renewing your membership!
Renew Student/Individual/Family Members
($25/$35/$55)
8/1-10/11/2014
Chow, Stephanie
Dedon, Kevin
Hernandez, Helen & Matthew
Hinsley, Amy
Johnson, Corie
Kuniyoshi, Setsuko
Leon, Juan & Oriana
Salazar, Vera
Schriever, Zikolos
Tracy, Robert
Williams, Jeannie & family
Miller, Mike
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GUEST ESSAY
The Alamo's Japanese Monument Turns 100
Dr. Margit Nagy, CDP
Shiga Centennial Coordinator
Professor of History
Our Lady of the Lake University
The Centennial Commemoration of the Japanese Monument at the Alamo takes place on Wednesday, November 5, 2014, at 2 p.m. in the Alamo Convent Courtyard. The Centennial Ceremony participants include Japanese delegations from Tokyo and Shinshiro, Japan; Consul General Nozomu Takaoka from Houston, and representatives of the Texas/Bexar County/San Antonio civic, business, and educational communities. An Alamo Hall reception follows. The event is free and open to the public.
Waseda University geographer and world traveler, Dr. Shiga Shigetaka, arrived in San Antonio on November 5, 1914, to present his goodwill monument honoring the Alamo heroes. One hundred prominent San Antonio citizens welcomed him warmly. Given in the midst of growing anti-Japanese hostility and the outbreak of World War I, the granite monument is a tangible sign of deeds of friendship bridging cultural differences. The poem that Dr. Shiga had inscribed on the monument honors by name the heroes of the Alamo (Bonham, Bowie, Crockett, and Travis), the hero messenger of the 1575 Battle of Nagashino in Japan (Torii Suneemon), and heroes of the 757 Battle of Suiyang in Tang China (Chang Hsun, Hsu Yuan and Nan Chiyun). In making the parallels, Dr. Shiga focused on the common values of loyalty and self-sacrifice honored in all nations as a powerful unifying force, even in periods of conflict.
In this spirit, Dr. Shiga went to Chihuahua, Mexico, after leaving San Antonio to pay tribute to Padre Hidalgo, the hero of Mexican independence. When this world traveler returned to Japan in 1915, he used the occasion of a special celebration in his home town of Okazaki to have a display about the Alamo and to give a public lecture on Japan's first trade mission to Mexico.
At the November 6, 1914 ceremony, Prof. Shiga received live oak acorns to plant in Japan.  He accepted saying, "I shall tell the people of Japan these acorns came from the citizens of San Antonio and of the great state of Texas, and I shall strive to make my people better understand the friendliness, generosity, and hospitality of the inhabitants of far-off America. " During the 1986 Texas Sesquicentennial, the Junior Ambassadors Friendship Mission brought the portrait of Dr. Shiga to the Alamo. Relatives of Dr. Shiga and Rotarians from Okazaki and Shinshiro got live oak seedlings to replace trees destroyed during WWII at the 75th Anniversary ceremony in 1989. In 1995, cherry trees grown from seeds brought by Shinshiro representatives were planted in San Antonio. The November 5th Centennial is about more than Dr. Shiga and his monument. It is about the potential each has, even in times of conflict, to envision new ways to build bridges of understanding across the differences of countries and cultures.
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Enjoy your weekend and the nice rainy day!
We'd love to see you at
Aki Matsuri at the O. Henry Middle School on Sat, November 6 at NOON!
Japan-America Society of Greater Austin
www.jasga.org
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