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For the second year in a row, Dave’s Hot Chicken is giving out free chicken sliders and tenders to celebrate its most famous investor, recording artist Drake. Get to one of Dave’s many SoCal locations on Tuesday, October 24 from 11 a.m. Last week, Eater LA published a story on the inner workings of the Thrifty Ice Cream plant, one day after Rite Aid filed for bankruptcy and announced store closures. The Los Angeles Times reports that 29 of the 31 California Rite Aid locations to shutter also have a Thrifty Ice Cream counter, reducing the number of places to get a fresh scoop.
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It’s a helpful travel guide, whether you’re a first time visitor or a regular. On the public side, the Pavilion created over 18,000 square footage of new gallery space and the two-story 4,000-square-foot Aratani Central Hall which was designed for temporary exhibits, lectures, and special events. The Aratani Central Hall features a wall of reflective glass through which the Historic Building can be seen. The Mineta Democracy Plaza extends the space of the Aratani Central Hall, linking it to the Historic Building with its stepped podium that provides an informal amphitheater. The Aratani Central Hall floor design, made of terracotta, extends through the glass wall into the plaza and reaches out to the Historic Building. JANM’s renovated Historic Building was formerly the Nishi Hongwanji Buddhist Temple, the first Buddhist temple building constructed in Los Angeles in 1925.
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And Hisako Terasaki Garden Café space is the Manabi and Sumi Hirasaki Family Garden, created by landscape designer Robert Murase. While the garden features Carnelian granite from Minnesota and Arizona flagstone, it also contains fragments of what was the existing sierra granite curb installed into the water fountain as a connection to the site’s past. The 90-foot-long fountain with its water hitting stone is the sound of nature in the middle of an urban setting. Soon after the Japanese American National Museum opened to the public in its renovated Historic Building, it made plans to develop an adjacent modern structure to expand its exhibition and collection space and work facilities. The Board of Trustees engaged famed architect Gyo Obata, principal of Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum (HOK), to design the expansion. The main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDP) won big Sunday night, racking up victories in three key by-elections, including a closely watched race in a district that was long a ruling Liberal Democratic Party stronghold.
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The Democracy Center’s architecture responds to the scale and context of the Historic Building. The wedge-shaped Tateuchi Democracy Forum is designed for town hall meetings, lectures, discussions, and live performances. The wood-slatted ceiling was inspired by the original coffered ceiling of the temple building and traditional Japanese architecture. To make use of the entire structure, the First Street frontage offices, where JANM staff worked, were connected to what was once the temple. An elevator was installed and the stairway was extended to connect to the second and third floors.
Gyo, whose father Chiura was an Issei artist, chose exterior and interior building materials that expressed a Japanese aesthetic that favored wood, stone, and glass. When Aman Resorts opened its first urban resort in Tokyo, the Amanjunkies followed. A Zen rock garden sets the tone at the entrance to this hushed 84-room sanctuary hidden away on the top six floors of a tower in the Otemachi financial district (within walking distance of sightseeing locations like the Imperial Palace).
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In 2005, JANM received a federal grant to complete the construction of the Democracy Center as an addition to JANM’s Historic Building. The project added 9,800 square feet to the existing 23,800 square feet in the renovated historic Nishi Hongwanji Temple building and included the creation of the 198-seat Tateuchi Democracy Forum theater and the Democracy Lab. “In designing the courtyard and garden for the Pavilion, I drew inspiration from the ancient and sacred tradition of stone, from the stone walls and megaliths in Europe to the stone gardens of Japan,” Murase revealed. He also was inspired by the work of the late Japanese American sculptor and landscape designer, Isamu Noguchi. Besides two large classrooms, the Pavilion features the unique two-story Hirasaki National Resource Center (HNRC) as the public access to the JANM collection. The HNRC holds an archival viewing room, a mezzanine, and the Life History Studio.
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But despite demand for houses remaining high, the increase in vacant homes suggests that they are not being fully utilized. According to the White House, guests were served a first course of house-cured salmon; a salad of avocados, red grapefruit, watermelon radish and cucumber; and shiso leaf fritters. Secretary Norman Y. Mineta served on JANM’s board of governors from 1988 to 1995 and was the chair of the board of governors from 2010 to 2015. A trustee since 1996, he was the chair of the board of trustees from 2015 until his passing in May 2022. He and his family were forcibly removed from their home in San José, California, and incarcerated along with 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry for the duration of World War II.
Oasis seekers could spend the whole visit luxuriating in the two-level spa (one of the largest in the city), swimming in the nearly 100-foot-long pool, soaking in the guest room’s deep furo tub, or dining on omakase sushi at the Musashi by Aman restaurant. But then you’d be missing out on Aman-led excursions in the area, where you can meet artisans running generations-old businesses and order a custom kimono or a pair of hand-engraved chopsticks. In 1991, the commission was awarded to Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, whose concept was to create six timelines in the sidewalk, beginning at the building line. Near the entrances of the buildings, the timelines identify the businesses located there and the goods and services offered to the community. The sixth timeline is done in dark charcoal black and represents the 1940s when Japanese Americans were illegally forced from their homes and businesses by the U.S. government and incarcerated in concentration camps during World War II.
The former minister’s quarters were transformed into a collection space and photography dark room. After JANM opened in 1992, the renovated Historic Building was the site of groundbreaking exhibitions, public programs, and social gatherings. It also hosted Their Royal Majesties, the Emperor and Empress of Japan in 1994. The building’s frontage on First Street contained three floors of rented office spaces which housed restaurants and small businesses, providing income for the temple. The temple’s main ceremonial entrance was located on Central Avenue, which connected to the hondo upstairs and the social hall downstairs. The third section of this asymmetrical structure was the living spaces for the temple’s minister and family.
Like many of Tokyo’s five-star hotels, the Bulgari is set on the upper floors of a business tower with views stretching to Tokyo Bay. The design fuses Italian and Japanese accents, from the Venetian-glass pool (which sits beneath a gold ceiling hand-painted by local artisans) to a terrace planted with lemon and yuzu trees. In an appropriate nod to Bulgari’s roots in the jewelry space, the name “hōseki” means “gemstone” in Japanese.
At Hinokizaka, you can try kaiseki, sushi, tempura, or teppanyaki and even dine in a private 200-year-old Japanese teahouse. Meanwhile, East meets West at Azure 45, which adds Asian touches to modern French cuisine. The Bar is known for the Diamonds are Forever Martini—one of the most expensive cocktails in the world at ¥3,000,000 (about $22,000) and garnished with a one-carat diamond.
Situated at the northern most point of the building, this third section had its own separate entrance. Besides its primary role as the focus for the local Buddhist community, the temple building served as a social center because its hondo or main hall, where services were held, also functioned as an auditorium. That space served as a community venue for live performances and movie screenings. On Thursday, October 26, Hollywood’s Griddle Cafe is hosting a fundraiser with the proceeds going towards the Giving Kitchen.
The mural also depicts lanterns or akari, representing light or illumination and displays a haiku poem by Basho, a famous Japanese poet from the Edo period. JANM organized a community day to gather interested individuals to help paint the bottom half of the mural under Yamasaki’s direction. In 2014, JANM commissioned a mural on the north wall of the Tateuchi Democracy Forum.
In recent years, Little Tokyo’s historic restaurants have been disappearing rapidly. Suehiro Cafe was evicted after 51 years (though it reopened elsewhere in Downtown), as well as the decades-old Ebisu Japanese Izakaya, Oreno Yakiniku Japanese Bar-B-Cue, and SKD Tofu House. The installation also contains a second zone closer to the street with images and quotes from three generations of Japanese Americans who lived and/or worked in Little Tokyo. De Bretteville obtained the quotations by conducting more than 50 interviews and by reviewing books and old newspapers. She collaborated with Sonya Ishii, who submitted a proposal for the commission and whose work was recommended to de Bretteville to be part of the installation. Learn more about the Democracy Center’s upcoming events, programs, and partnerships at janm.org/democracy.
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