September 2014 Social Event: Game Night with Nakayoshi!

Hi Nakayoshi Young Professionals, Nakayoshi will be hosting our Game Night this year on Saturday, September 13th 2014 at the Japanese American Citizens League Headquarter in San Francisco! Get ready for a night full of laughs and competition over board games, card games and more! Please bring your favorite game, as well as food, snacks, […]

Udon & Somen Noodle Booth at Nihonmachi Street Festival 2014

It’s that time of year again Yep the Nihonmachi Street Festival is the first weekend of August (2nd and 3rd). Nakayoshi has been running a food booth for several years now. Once again we will be serving hot udon & cold somen. However this year you may also purchase a scoop of curry (my favorite!) to […]

July Social: New Generation Nikkei Fund (NGNF) San Francisco Launch Happy Hour

Hey Nakayoshis! Our social event for July is an exciting launch event happy hour for the New Generation Nikkei Fund (NGNF), a brand new statewide philanthropy group started in part by several Nakayoshi members and other young professionals representing San Francisco, San Jose and Los Angeles’ Japantown communities! What: New Generation Nikkei Fund (NGNF) San […]

July Volunteer Event: Mt. View Obon and Bazaar

July 2014 Nakayoshi Volunteer Event: Mt. View Obon and Bazaar Date: Sunday, July 20, 2014 Time: 11:30am-7:30pm Location: Mountain View Buddhist Temple, 575 N Shoreline Blvd, Mountain View, CA 94043 Hey Nakayoshi, obon season is about to get started, and we’ll be helping out once again at the Mountain View Buddhist Temple’s Obon and Bazaar on […]

Annual Camping Trip – Labor Day Weekend

Join Nakayoshi for our Annual Camping Trip! Glorious adventures await when we go camping, events include, but are not limited to:  Daytime hikes across the coast  Exploration of Pygmy forests  Card games  Smores  Campfire cooking with Cast Iron Cookware  Nightime hikes  Ghost stories  Jokes galore This will be a great opportunity to bond with your […]

Nakayoshi Café is back!

The “Nakayoshi Café” is coming back for the Annual Soy & Tofu Festival on Saturday, June 7th in San Francisco’s Japantown (Peace Plaza, Post at Buchanan Streets) to help fundraise for the NichiBei Foundation, publishers of the NichiBei Weekly Japanese American newspaper that will receive 100% of all our proceeds. The festival will run from […]

JCCCNC Annual Children’s Day Festival

Join Nakayoshi and sell spam musubis or make arts & crafts at the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California (JCCCNC)’s Children’s Day Festival this year. Nakayoshi will be operating the spam musubi booth at the annual Kodomo No Hi (Children’s Day) Festival in SF Japantown on Saturday, May 3th, 2014. All proceeds will go […]

Social Event: Nakayoshi Young Professional’s 6th Annual Welcome BBQ

Save the date for Nakayoshi Young Professional’s 6th annual Welcome BBQ! Date:  Sunday, June 22nd 2014 Time: 11:0am to 4:00pm Location: Hellman Holloway in San Francisco Golden Gate Park Nakayoshi’s Welcome BBQ is our biggest social event, providing participants the opportunity to meet with Nakayoshi members and learn what Nakayoshi is all about. We invite […]

Social Event: Ultra Bowling Night @ Yerba Buena Bowling Center

Want to bowl under pretty lights? 🙂 Come and join us next Thursday evening, 4/3/14, at 7pm at the Yerba Buena Ice Skating & Bowling Center in Downtown San Francisco! The center is located behind Metron – walking distance from Powell MUNI/Bart station. Parking is also available at the Fifth & Mission Parking lot. We […]

Social Event: Documentary Film “Stories from Tohoku” | CAAMfest 2014

Join Nakayoshi at the San Francisco premire of “Stories from Tohoku” at the annual CAAMfest 2014! “STORIES FROM TOHOKU urges us not to forget. The documentary gives a voice to the survivors — many still living in temporary housing, struggling to make ends meet — while skillfully interweaving their stories with those of Japanese American […]