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The Nichi Bei Weeklys Obon and Summer Festivals Guide is the most comprehensive guide to summer festivities from coast to coast — including Hawai‘i. This app is a digital representation of this special edition, downloadable to your mobile device or computer.

Subscribe to our Print or Digital Edition today at www.nichibei.org/subscribe to receive it and many other editions of the Nichi Bei Weekly — keeping the Japanese American community connected, informed and empowered.

SPECIAL OBON AND SUMMER FESTIVALS GUIDE SECTION:
• Comprehensive guide to more than 150 summer festivities across the country
• “Largest group of ministers in recent memory join Buddhist Churches of America”
• “Rinban Bob, Rev. Patti Oshita retire from Sacramento Betsuin”
• “Obon in Japan, compared to America”
• “The evolution of FandangObon”
• “Buddhist Church of S.F.’s Fujimoto-sensei keeps the community as lively as her spirit”
• “San Jose to host storied dance from Osaka”
• “Where to buy all-things Bon Odori”
• “Where to buy a Butsudan”

Also Featuring:
• “Escrow closes but criticism of Keiro sale continues”
• “The JACL’s historic support for marriage equality”
• “Okinawa residents rally to protest crimes by U.S. military personnel”
• “A heartwarming film of cross-cultural discovery rolled into ‘East Side Sushi’”
• “Green with envy?” (food column on matcha)
• “A Japanese hero, Ichiro surpasses Rose’s hits in front of fans”

About the Nichi Bei Foundation and Nichi Bei Weekly

Rising out of the ashes of the historic Nichi Bei Shimbun and Nichi Bei Times legacy, which dates back to 1899, the pioneering and innovative Nichi Bei Foundation was established in 2009 to create the first nonprofit ethnic community newspaper of its kind in the country — the Nichi Bei Weekly.

The Nichi Bei Foundation (NBF) is an educational and charitable nonprofit organization dedicated to keeping the Japanese American community connected, informed and empowered — primarily through a community newspaper (Nichi Bei Weekly) and Website (www.nichibei.org), as well as educational programming.

The Nichi Bei Foundation, an educational and charitable nonprofit organization, was also created as a means to support community organizations, shed light on community issues and document the communitys history.

In addition to publishing the last community newspaper in the Bay Area, the Nichi Bei Foundation also presents educational programming such as the Films of Remembrance, a day-long series of films on the Japanese American concentration camp experience, as well as the Nikkei Angel Island Pilgrimage. The Nichi Bei Foundation also presents the Northern California Soy and Tofu Festival to educate the public about the benefits of soy and tofu, and the festival serves as a vehicle for community-building and leadership development.

Amongst the most widely distributed editions are the Obon and Summer Festivals Guide and the Japanese Culture and Cherry Blossom Festivals Guide, which both highlight community events throughout the country.

Through this Digital replication of one of our most popular editions, you can download a page-by-page replication of the special edition. You will be able to click on to links and to advertisements, which would instantly direct you to their Web pages.

• Swipe or tap the page edges to flip to next/previous page.
• Use the animated thumbnail view to flick through the pages.
• Pinch or double-tap pages to zoom.
• Switch between single or double-page view.
• Search the current issue.
• Tap any page links to Web sites, e-mail addresses, phone numbers or maps.
• Tap contents-page links to jump to a particular article.
• Sync issues to your device for offline reading (requires Wi-Fi).
• Network connection required otherwise.

We recommend first running the app within a Wi-Fi area so it can sync the issue to your device — after that you can use it anywhere.