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Posted on January 19, 2025 by sanjotown

Rapid Response Network Volunteer Training SJ January 11, 2025

On January 11, 2025 over 125 people participated in a San Jose Japantown training by the Rapid Response Network (RRN) of Santa Clara County. The RRN in Santa Clara County defends immigrant families against threats of deportation and assists with the arrest or detention of a community member. The Rapid Responder Volunteer Trainings initially started during the Trump administration starting in 2017. Immigrant deportations only victimize and criminalize people without really solving the immigration issue. The training was organized by San Jose Nikkei Resisters and co-sponsored by PACT: People Acting in Community Together, Asian Law Alliance, Nihonmachi Outreach Committee, San Jose and Sequoia chapters of the JACL, Wesley United Methodist Church and the San Jose Buddhist Church Betsuin.

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Posted on January 11, 2025 by sanjotown

Nikkei Lantern

The Nikkei Lantern was created for the perseverance of Japanese Americans. The Lantern is made of white steel, stands over 36 feet high, and it is lit from within by LEDs. This symbol is located on the corner of 5th Street and Jackson in San Jose Japantown. The light at the top the lantern represents eternal hope and serves as reminder of the hardships the Nikkei faced. The lantern inscription, February 19, 1942 represents the date when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 that interned over 100,000 Japanese Americans to internment camps. The Nikkei Lantern was part of a project funded by California State Senate Bill 307 and the City of San Jose to commemorate the Japanese American experience and was completed in 2008.

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Posted on December 23, 2024 by sanjotown

Christmas Lights in San Jose 2024

Every Christmas holidays in the Willow Glen district in San Jose there are numerous houses decorated in Christmas lights that brings thousands of walkers and automobiles in the neighborhood. The focal point of the Christmas lights are either on the corner of Glen Eyrie and San Ramon or San Pablo in San Jose.

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Posted on November 16, 2024 by sanjotown

Overcast Day in October

Alviso Slough Trail in San Jose (Alviso) in October 2024

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Posted on November 4, 2024 by sanjotown

Dr. Seuss at Albertson Halloween House SJ

Albertson Halloween House San Jose October 31, 2024

The Albertson Halloween House is an annual Halloween community-based project in San Jose. Around 800 to 1500 trick-or-treaters and their parents visit the house every Halloween. It originated in 2002 and has been continuing every year. The theme in 2024 was Dr. Seuss. Dr. Seuss of Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904-1991) was a writer and cartoonist of over 60 books. His most famous bestsellers were “The Cat in the Hat” and Green Eggs and Ham.”

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Posted on October 17, 2024 by sanjotown

New Caltrain Service

Santa Clara Caltrain Station September 2024

Caltrain recently launched an all-electric seven-car train service between San Francisco and San Jose on September 21, 2024. It provides commuter rail service along the San Francisco Peninsula, to the South Bay in San Jose and Gilroy. This new service shortens travel times, reduce air and noise pollution with zero-emission service. There are 16 stations along the entire line and the trains operate every 15 to 20 minutes during peak hours, weekend trains arriving twice hourly and express service from San Francisco to San Jose in under an hour. There is also free Wi-Fi, onboard digital displays, power outlets at each forward-facing seat, energy-efficient lighting, and baby-changing tables in the bathrooms.

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Posted on September 9, 2024September 10, 2024 by sanjotown

Viva CalleSJ Sunday September 8th 2024

On a warm summer day on Sunday September 8^th 2024 an estimated 100,000 people bicycled through the streets of central San Jose. Viva CalleSJ is a program along the San Jose streets to bring communities together to walk, stroll, bike, hover, skate, and play in the City. At the event there was live entertainment and pop-up activities, shops at local stores, and many local restaurants.

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Posted on August 5, 2024August 20, 2024 by sanjotown

Summer Evening SJ Japantown

Summer Evening in San Jose Japantown on August 2, 2024

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Posted on June 16, 2024 by sanjotown

Pincushion Daisy

Pincushion Daisies or Gaillardia suavis are a perennial flower. It is a reddish-brown disk flower with yellow to orange or red rays. They mostly grow in the soils of prairies, desert scrub, and juniper woodlands and bloom in the spring or summer. And the flowers attract butterflies and bees. The flowers occur in arid northeastern Mexico and in the US from Texas north to Kansas.

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