2025 Holiday Gift Guide
We are back with JapanCulture•NYC’s 2025 holiday gift guide. This year we take you back to storefronts throughout the area as we feature new establishments or Japanese-related businesses that may not be on your radar yet.
RAM & Tokyo to New York at Martha Graham Studio
Random Access Music and Tokyo to New York bring movement and sound together in a two-night event at the Martha Graham Studio Theater.
Art Song Suite about the Life of Beloved Japanese Poet
Experience the remarkable yet tragic life of beloved Japanese poet Misuzu Kaneko, who ended her own life at the young age of 26, through readings and music.
Left: Misuzu Kaneko, photo courtesy of Preservation Association of Misuzu Kaneko Works. Right: Illustrations ©︎Toshikado Hajiri
Japan Society Presents Dance Production Based on Mishima
Japan Society’s Fall 2025 Yukio Mishima Centennial Series: Emergences continues with the world premiere dance production of The Seven Bridges (Hashi-zukushi). A vibrant new work for all ages from the Tokyo-based dance company CHAiroiPLIN with choreography by company founder Takuro Suzuki is based on a lesser-known short story of the same title by Yukio Mishima.
Kabuki, Noh, and More at Carnegie Hall
Discover the heritage and evolution of Noh and Kabuki theater, taiko drumming, the three-stringed shamisen, and more led by today’s foremost actors, musicians, and representatives of art forms that have been handed down and passionately studied for centuries.
New Book About Japanese Baseball
The Japanese American Association of New York welcomes back author Robert K. Fitts to discuss his new book, In the Japanese Ballpark: Behind the Scenes of Nippon Professional Baseball, which takes a deep dive into the people who work in baseball in Japan.
Issei Photography Exhibition at JAA
The Japanese American Association of New York presents First Generation of Japanese Americans in New York in 1970s and 1980s, a photo exhibition of works by photographer Hiroyuki Inoue.
Kim Ima’s One-Woman Show at La MaMa
Ready For Company and Other Family Tales is Kim Ima’s one-woman play about family and legacy, an inheritance of stories and unfinished quests from this Jewish/Japanese/American family tree.
Dance-Theater Piece Retells Akutagawa Short Story
Led by dancers Yusuke Mori and Alaisha Sharma, Spider’s Thread is a performance based on Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s well-known short story.
Japan’s 47 Prefectures: Wakayama
Yvonne Burton of Burton Consulting International takes us on a tour of Wakayama Prefecture’s zone at the Kansai Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan.
AkumuFest Hits Japan Village Brooklyn
Kaede Kimonos and JapanCultureNYC are collaborating to present AkumuFest: An Interactive Japanese Horror Experience! This Saturday, October 25, Japan Village will come alive with Yokai in this immersive celebration of Japanese horror, fashion, folklore, and fandom.
Chainsaw Man in NYC Theaters October 24
For the first time, Chainsaw Man slashes his way onto the big screen in an epic, action-fueled adventure that continues the hugely popular anime series.
Course on Artists of Japanese Ancestry
Joseph Tokumasu Field, an art historian and educator, has developed CrossCurrents, an exciting new course that is centered around twentieth-century artists of Japanese ancestry.
Immersive ONE PIECE Exhibition at Mercer Labs in Downtown NYC
Legendary studio Toei Animation and Mercer Labs, Museum of Art and Technology, unveiled ONE PIECE x MERCER LABS, a groundbreaking immersive exhibition celebrating the iconic ONE PIECE anime franchise.
Image courtesy: ©Eiichiro Oda/Shueisha, Toei Animation
Free Tickets to Mamoru Hosoda’s SCARLET
Our friends at Film at Lincoln Center is generously extending free tickets to Scarlet by Mamoru Hosoda (Summer Wars, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, and Digimon: The Movie) to followers of JapanCulture•NYC. The screening, part of this year’s New York Film Festival, will take place Wednesday, October 8, 2025 at 9:00 p.m., so act quickly! The screening will feature a Q&A with Hosoda.
Learn About Historic Japanese Farmhouses
The Kominka Preservation Alliance is hosting a free seminar entitled Giving Japanese Kominka Farmhouses & Other Traditional Structures a Second Life in Japan & Overseas at RESOBOX.
What’s the Latest at Expo 2025 in Osaka?
JapanCulture•NYC is thrilled to continue our ongoing Expo 2025 Talk series with cross-cultural consultant Yvonne Burton of Burton Consulting International!
Shunzo Ohno Presents “Soaring Higher” at Joe’s Pub
Internationally acclaimed jazz trumpeter and composer Shunzo Ohno returns to The Public Theater’s Joe’s Pub on Tuesday, September 23 at 7:00 p.m. with the debut of his bold new project, Soaring Higher.
Gardens for Peace at BBG
As part of the North American Japanese Garden Association’s annual Gardens for Peace project, which brings communities together in Japanese gardens to promote peace, Brooklyn Botanic Garden is presenting free public programming in and around the Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden.
Outdoor Concert & market in the Catskills
Momoglobalflowers, a biodynamic farm in the Catskills, is hosting its fifth annual Shinrinyoku (forest bathing) outdoor concert and market. Enjoy an evening of music, food, and local artisans surrounded by the beauty and nature of the farm.
Get ready for an entertaining, all-ages Halloween Scavenger Hunt at Japan Village!