Location:
New People Building
1746 Post Street
San Francisco, CA 94115

Join us for JTALK!, the first NihonmachiROOTS language & cultural exchange event in Japantown.  We hope JTALK! will give non-Japanese speakers the chance to practice their nihongo and exchange culture with a native Japanese person.

Details

• JTALK! will have five native Japanese speakers to informally teach Japanese and share Japanese culture

• JTALK! will be divided into two parts:

1. The first 30 minutes or so will focus on a grammar theme: How to properly introduce yourself and/or someone else
2. The remainder of the time will be devoted to free conversation

• Please feel free to bring any pictures of yourself e.g. family, interests/hobbies, hometown map, pets, etc. that will help facilitate conversation topics and add more information  cultural exchange

Please Read

**Please indicate your level of proficiency in Japanese before attending.  This is very important so we can organize the groups properly.

E-mail: nihonmachiroots@gmail.com

**Our host, the New People Building, has been generous enough to offer their cafe space for one hour free of charge.  They would greatly appreciate it ifevery participant purchase one item at their cafe as a token of appreciation. Thank you.

Come hear MORE at the June 16^th Community Meeting!

• GOOD NEWS!

-  The San Francisco Planning Dept. has re-allocated a half-time Senior Planner to our planning effort and a part-time Cultural Preservation Staff

- Introduction of the NEW Japantown BNP Senior Planner, Paul Lord

• GREAT ANNOUCEMENT!

- The City through the leadership and support of Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi will look into conducting a new feasibility  study on the Japan Center

• A NEW JAPANTOWN COMMUNITY PLANNING COUNCIL TO BE DISCUSSED

-  Discussion on a NEW organizing structure, composition and process

-  Discussion on Electing community members and stakeholders to the new Council

-  Discussion on Council members voting on issues and to approve or disapprove the community recommendations of the Japantown BNP, prior to submission to the City Planning Commission

• BAD NEWS FOR THE OWNERS OF THE JAPAN CENTER AND THE HOTELS!

-  Their Waikiki Trade Center in Honolulu was foreclosed on!  $25 million in debt

-  Their Little Tokyo, Kyoto Grand Hotel and Weller Court in default! $33.8 million in debt

-  Forced to sell Waiane Shopping Mall in Oahu

-  Japan Center Next???

DON’T MISS THIS IMPORTANT MEETING!

When         Wednesday, June 16^th

Where       JCCCNC, 1840 Sutter Street (Issei Memorial Hall)

Time           7:00pm

Food and drinks provided

It was confirmed that full funding for JCYC’s Japantown Youth Leaders program will be included in the budget the Mayor submits to the Board of Supervisors next week!  The community came together and delivered over 1200 letters to the Mayor, called his office and spammed his Facebook and Twitter accounts.  The $94,000 in full will be reallocated back to the Youth of our community and we thank all of you for all your efforts!

THANK YOU

• 350 letters were collected
• 294 individuals signed our online petition
• Over 100 Facebook posts and tweets on Twitter were posted and seen by City Hall.

The letters, a printout of the online petition, as well as a visual piece will be presented to City Hall by NihonmachiROOTS representatives this Thursday.

The fight to save Japantown Youth Leaders isn’t over yet.  Continue to spread the word and stay tuned to Japantownnow.com for updates!

Mayor Gavin Newsom (http://twitter.com/GavinNewsom) loves tweeting, so what better way to get his attention about our campaing to regain city funding for JCYC that to tweet?!

Just REPLY to any one of his tweets on his twitter page: http://twitter.com/GavinNewsom with the following message:
“I support Japantown and I urge you to do the same by reinstating city funding for the Japantown Youth Leaders project!”

If you don’t have a twitter account, now is a good time to start one! It’s really easy and only takes a minute. http://www.twitter.com/

DON’T LEAVE JAPANTOWN BEHIND – REALLOCATE FUNDING BACK TO JCYC’S JAPANTOWN YOUTH LEADERS PROGRAM! – Post this on Gavin Newsom’s Facebook!