*Japan Family Day/The Tokyo City Cup - Santa Anita (1 Day Saturday)NEW

Japan Family Day at Santa Anita Park was started as a way to introduce Japanese traditional culture and to interact with the people of Southern California. Through the years, it has become one of the most popular spring festivals in the area. Featuring cultural events and demonstrations, Japan Family Day has something for everyone.

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For possible freen entrance ticket, free t-shirt coupon.

Schedule For Day
-Shodo (Calligraphy)
-Kado (Flower Arranging)-Time: All Day�(Exhibition Booth)
-Origami (The Art of Folding Paper)-Time: All Day�(Exhibition Booth)
-Soma Nomaoi (Samurai Warriors)-Time: All Day�(Exhibition Booth)
-Matsuri (Traditional Festival)-Time: All Day�(Exhibition Booth)
-Visit Japan (Travel Info)-Time: All Day�(Exhibition Booth)
-Bonsai-Time: All Day�(Exhibition Booth)
-Soma Yaki (Ceremic Art)-Time: All Day�(Exhibition Booth)
-Sado (Tea Ceremonyt)-Time: All Day�(Exhibition Booth)
-Karate (Martial Art)-Time: Various (Exhibition Booth)
-Awa-Odori Dance-Time: Various (Main Stage)
-Sumo (Japanese Style of Wrestling)-Time: Various (Main Stage)
-Koto Performance (Japanese Harp)-Time: Various (Main Stage)
-Yosakoi Soran (Japanese Dnce)-Time: Various (Main Stage)
-Pony Ride & Face Painting-Time: Various (Main Stage)

Background
Family Day at Santa Anita Park was started as a way to introduce Japanese traditional culture and to interact with the people of Southern California. Through the years, it has become one of the most popular spring festivals in the area. Featuring cultural events and demonstrations, Japan Family Day has something for everyone. So, be ready to observe, participate and most of all, have fun.

Featured Events
Japan Family Day has something for everyone.
Authentic Japanese cultural events and demostrations will be setup on the Santa Anita Park grounds.

SANTA ANITA PARK AND OHI RACECOURSE OF TOKYO HAVE ENJOYED A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP SINCE 1995.
Each year the Tokyo City Cup Race is run to acknowledge and celebrate the partnership between two of the premier tracks in their respective countries. This year, the tenth running, the Tokyo City Cup has been upgraded to Grade III. Please come and experience the thrill and excitement as a field of world-class thoroughbreds thunder down the home stretch at the very place the legendary Seabiscuit ran, and where the 7-time-Oscar nominated film documenting his career was filmed. Santa Anita Park!

Web Site
http://www.tokyocitycup.com/

Time
10:30 am

This Weekend We Want to Acknowledge
AS YOU CELEBRATE JAPAN DAY AT SANTA ANITA PLEASE DO NOT FORGET THAT IT WAS ONCE A TEMPORARY PRISON CAMP OF 19,000 JAPANESE AND JAPANESE AMERICANS IN 1942, DURING WORLD WAR II.�� MANY JAPANESE / JAPANESE AMERICANS WERE TAKEN FROM THEIR HOMES IN LOS ANGELES (LITTLE TOKYO) AND REMOVED AND PLACED IN THE HORSE STABLES IN SANTA ANITA FOR 5 TO 6 MONTHS WHILE THE U.S. GOVERNMENT BUILD CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN COLORADO, WYMONG, ARKANSAS, UTAH, IDAHO AND ARIZONA.

WE REMEMBER THE SMELL OF THE HORSE STABLES.� WE SLEPT THERE, ATE THERE FOR SIX MONTHS.� WE WERE DENIED OUR CIVIL RIGHTS, MOVED BEHIND BARBED WIRES WITH MILITARY GUARD TOWERS.� THEY CHECKED TO SEE IF WE WERE ALL IN BED AT NIGHT.� IT WAS A FRIGHTENING TIME.�

June Aochi Berk
One of the 19,000 incarcerated at Santa Anita Race Track in 1942
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Note to think about: the Santa Anita Race Track was a temporary prison camp in 1942 that housed over 18,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans.� Little has been told about these 'Assembly Centers.'� They moved the horses out and moved us in.�� One day we were sleeping in our homes in Los Angeles, and the next night we are sleeping in horse stables....� without due process of law, without anything but 2 suitcases of clothing.�� We all showered in one large room where they washed down the horses after their races.� The large room was divided in half by a plywood board, separating the men and women.�� We slept enclosed by barbed wire and guards in the guard towers.� It was� a frightening time for my parents, my brothers and sister and me, and thousands of famiilies like ours.��

ESPN was doing a story about jockey Cory Nakatani a couple of months ago at Santa Anita, when they noticed a group of 200 Japanese Americans touring the horse stables.� They asked why we were there.� We told them that it was a Santa Anita 'reunion' -� and they decided to film a short story with interviews of some of us who lived in the temporary prison camp.�� It was an emotional homecoming.� But I wanted to see the horse stables again.�� The trees had grown taller.� The stables looked much smaller than what I remembered them to be.� I saw where we slept.� I saw the track where we would run races and play during the day.� I saw the horse stable where we ate at 'The Blue Mess Hall' --- The smell was the same...�
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The Japan Family Day, held in conjunction with the Tokyo City Cup, features cultural exhibitions that showcase such Japanese displays as Sado (tea ceremony), Kado (flower arranging), Shodo (calligraphy), Origami (paper folding), Koto (Japanese harp), Awa-Dance (Japanese dance), Karate(Japanese martial arts) , Sumo (Japanese style of wrestling), AYANO (Japanese dance performance) and Wadaiko (special Japanese drum performance). In celebration of the 15th anniversary, Kacchu-Keiba (Horse Race by Armed Samurai Warriors) will be held on the main race course. Also, Visit Japan provides tourism information to attending patrons, introducing Japan as an attractive travel destination.� And, there will be various Japanese food booths available (Sushi, Curry, Okonomiyaki (Japanese-style Pancake), Takoyaki (Japanese octopus dumplings), Green Tea, a kids area with pony rides and visitors can take pictures with the world-famous Samurai warriors, who will be in traditional gear and armor at the Soma Nomaoi booth. .

Event Title: Japan Family Day /The Tokyo City Cup - Santa Anita