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St. Louis JACL Cooking Demo at 2025 Japanese Festival – Sukiyaki
This is the second year that St. Louis JACL has conducted a cooking demonstration at the Kemper Home Gardening Center of the Missouri Botanical Garden on August 31. A recipe from the chapter’s very own “Nisei Kitchen” cookbook was selected … Continue reading
2025 Japanese Festival St. Louis JACL Soda Tent – A Great Success!
Perfect weather contributed to a Labor Day weekend of record attendance at the Missouri Botanical Garden for the 48th Japanese Festival. The JACL Soda Tent fundraiser was a huge success! Thank you to all of the volunteers that worked their … Continue reading
JACL Cooking Demo at Japanese Festival!
Congratulations to Robin Hattori and Wendy Roll for a successful first JACL Cooking Demonstration at the Missouri Botanical Garden Kemper Kitchen on September 1, 2024 at the Japanese Festival!
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2024 Japanese Festival Fundraising Success for JACL!
The St. Louis JACL participation in the 2024 Japanese Festival at the Missouri Botanical Garden from August 31-September 2 was an outstanding success. The JACL Soda Tent raised its second highest gross revenue total ever! Robin Hattori and Wendy Roll … Continue reading
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Japanese Garden Stone Lantern Tour – April 24
On April 24, 2024 Missouri Botanical Garden Docent Tom Bush led a group of eighteen through the Missouri Botanical Garden’s Japanese Garden to explain the history of the different stone lanterns that have been placed within the Japanese Garden. Mr. … Continue reading
St. Louis JACL Booth at 2023 Japanese Festival – A Record Success!
The St. Louis JACL Soda Tent at the St. Louis Japanese Festival at Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis September 2-4, 2023 was a record-breaking fund raising success. The booth sold out of all of the food and drink supplies … Continue reading
Rosebush Blooms at Camp Amache (Colorado) 80 Years After Incarceration
NPR article highlights a newly blooming rosebush at Grenada (Colorado) Relocation Center also known as “Amache” where 10,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II. Dr. Bonnie Clark of Denver University, who spoke at the Missouri Botanical Garden in … Continue reading
St. Louis JACL Thanks All Japanese Festival Volunteers
The St. Louis JACL conducted a successful fundraiser at the Soda Tent at the 2021 Japanese Festival at the Missouri Botanical Garden on September 4-6. The St. Louis Chapter thanks all of the many chapter members and volunteers and Missouri … Continue reading
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OrigamiintheGarden Opens April 17
The Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis is opening an Origami (Japanese art form of folding paper) inspired sculpture exhibit on April 17, 2021 that was delayed from 2020 due to Covid-19. The exhibit is scheduled to run through October … Continue reading
Connecting the Pieces: Dialogues on the Amache Archaeology Collection
In partnership with the St. Louis chapter of the Japan America Citizens League (JACL), the Garden’s Stephen and Peter Sachs Museum will host Connecting the Pieces: Dialogues on the Amache Archaeology Collection April 27 through May 12, 2019. The exhibit employs interpretive … Continue reading
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