News UpdateAbout the Japantown Business Association
Click here for Japantown Community Congress of San Jose winner of two historic preservation awards in 2005! - see article below
Click here for the new Japantown Neighborhood Association website!

GANTZ - a special event 1/20/2011

One night, 334 theaters in the USA, special live interview broadcast with the stars (from Japan!)
(JBA working with VIZ Pictures) Find a theater near you!

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  City of San Jose Notices:

Department of Public Works April 2009-April 2010 (still going after delays-updated Jan 2011)
 Utility companies will begin construction of the underground system at mid-April 2009 to remove the overhead wires and utility poles and be completed by April 2010. District is:
along Taylor St; from First St to Tenth St;
Jackson St from Seventh St to Ninth St;
Seventh St from Jackson St to Taylor St and
Sixth St from Taylor St to Empire Street


JOBS:


Restaurants
Part-time Roy's Coffee & Tea
 www.roys-station.com
 at 5th & Jackson
now hiring part-time staff
call (408)286-2236
   
Part-time Shaburi (Shabu Shabu)
      Opening Soon!
Call (650) 787-3531
email Shaburi
now hiring part-time staff
   
Part-time Wings Chinese Restaurant
 on Jackson between 4th & 5th Street
 Call (408) 294-3393
 email: Ashley Yu <Email Wing's>
now hiring for part-time bus boy work


TENGU SUSHI (click here for descriptions)
Downtown San Jose
Call 408.772.4956
Looking for hard working dependable people who can work 2-6 hours a day, 2-5 days a week.

 

PRESS
RELEASES

 

 

Sake San Jose 2007

JTown Progressive Dinner!
Press release 6.05 -
 



Looking for office or retail space? Contact 298.4303 about spaces on Jackson Street in the heart of Japantown.


 


 

 


Japantown Community Congress of San Jose
JCCsj has been the recipient of two prestigious awards for the work accomplished in the Historic District Survey. (September 2005)
  
The first is from the California Preservation Foundation under Cultural Resource Studies for the San Jose Japantown Historic Context and Reconnaissance Survey.  The awards ceremony is on September 17th, at the San Francisco City Hall Rotunda.  The festivities start at 5:00 PM with the reception and the awards presentation starts at 6:00 PM. 
   The second is
the Governor's Historic Preservation Awards which are sponsored by the State Office of Historic Preservation (OHP) to give recognition to organizations and public agencies that have demonstrated achievements in preserving the heritage of California. This includes increasing public awareness, appreciation and support of historic preservation. Awards ceremonies will take place in November 2005.

San Jose International Airport North Concourse Concession Program Mineta San Jose International Airport will break ground on the North Concourse building, the first phase of the Airport Improvement Program. When completed in late 2007, the North Concourse will have approximately 17,000 square feet of concession space, including retail, food and beverage. The airport is looking for businesses that represent the ‘Local Flavor of San Jose’ Call Adriana Reves 408. 501-7616 for more information!

 Feel free to contact us if you've got and idea or contact that you'd like seen and heard! sanjosejtown@sbcglobal.net

Community news:
Everyone knows someone who is battling cancer or succumbed to the disease. Here is a group whose mission began as a community resource network for Asian Americans affected by cancer in the Bay Area through social programs and creative fundraising. Now, they have grown and at their 1 year anniversary in July 2004, have found that the baskets, counseling and support they give is being very well received and has been very much needed. Their annual fundraiser is Saturday, November 6, 2004 at the Hyatt Regency, SF Airport. Visit their website for more information www.aacsn.org  ASIAN AMERICAN CANCER SUPPORT NETWORK.

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SJRA, SB 307, Prop 40
 

Some of the major RDA and SJ City/Japantown partnership projects are:
  • facade improvements for signed contracts with the RDA will continue
  • A Neighborhood Business District Airport Committee has been formed for pursuing marketing possibilities at the San Jose Mineta International Airport. JBA is highly involved.
  • Prop 40 and SB 307 funding will continue as planned with the Japantown Community Congress of San Jose being named the official partner organization to the city in these efforts, by resolution of the San Jose City Council, October 14, 2003.
  • Directional signage will go forward with the possibility of additional signs to go on the west side of Coleman and Taylor (new development) to direct traffic to Japantown
  • The Landmark work (to go on 5th and Jackson, spanning the street to take advantage of the new view from and of City Hall) continues with work being done on the Wall of Values and timeline.
  • Historic markers for Japantown sites - academic identification and compilation/writing work will be done by a consultant hired by money from SB307
  • Historic District Survey - a first assessment and historic context statement for the preservation of Japantown (to aid development and restrain urban renewal destruction) with money acquired from a grant written by SJ City Historic Preservation Officer, Courtney Damkroger for Japantown to provide accurate information for benefits that may be gained from such studies. (Please see above for awards won by this effort!)
  • The CCPLEP 3-Japantown landmark can be seen in front of the Issei Memorial Building. There is a dedication ceremony being planned for sometime in October.
AND - in addition to all this - Japantown streets are improving with work on new curb paint designations, parking options, new businesses and easier communication about properties and business opportunity!