Nakayoshi September Volunteer Event: JCCCNC Tabemasho Annual Event

Our September volunteer event will be at the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California’s Tabemasho (Let’s Eat!) annual fundraiseron Saturday, September 19, 2015. Volunteers are needed from 2-8:30pm. The JCCCNC is one of Nakayoshi’s biggest community supporters, and offers great cultural and recreational classes and activities throughout the year for the entire community, […]

March Volunteer Event: SF Japantown Community Cleanup

Join us for our March monthly volunteer event! With the Cherry Blossom Festival just around the corner, Nakayoshi is teaming up with the Japantown Task Force and SF Department of Public Works to clean up the streets of Japantown on Saturday, March 28, from 10am-Noon. Join us in helping keep our community looking great! We’ll […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

Volunteer at this year’s Annual Day of Remembrance!

Nationwide, Day of Remembrance (DOR) has been commemorated on or near February 19th when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 in 1942, enforcing the exclusion, eviction, and incarceration of 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry, both citizens and immigrants.  It has become a time for diverse communities to stand together to carry the light for justice and reaffirm […]

December Volunteer Event – SF JACL Annual Spaghetti Crab Feed, Saturday December 7, 2013

  Join us as we help out the San Francisco JACL chapter at their annual spaghetti crab feed benefit dinner, Saturday December 7, 2013 in SF Japantown! Proceeds from this year’s dinner will go to support Nihonmachi Little Friends, a Japantown bilingual and multicultural preschool and child care organization. Volunteers are needed throughout the day […]

Nakayoshi November Event: Volunteering at St. Anthony Foundation

  St. Anthony Foundation provides over 3,000 people with food, clothing, recovery help for their drug and alcohol addictions, and medical care.  To date, more than 37 million meals have been served.   Exciting News!  On Sunday, November 10th, Nakayoshi Young Professionals will be volunteering at St. Anthony Foundation (150 Golden Gate Ave., SF 94102 -between […]

Volunteer event recap: Volunteering at the Mountain View Obon Festival and Bazaar!

On Sunday, July 21st, Nakayoshi Young Professionals volunteered at the Mountain View Obon Festival and Bazaar.  Volunteers assisted with making Udon, Tempura, and with selling Chicken Teriyaki until it was sold out at separate booths.  After volunteering, we had an opportunity to explore the rest of the festival and experience all that was in store.  […]