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JASWA St. Louis

Japanese Culture in St. Louis

Japan America Society St. Louis
St. Louis Japanese Language School for Children and Adults
Missouri Botanical Garden Sei-wa En Japanese Garden
Japanese International Harvest Church (Baptist), service in Japanese and English
Japan Foundation, Outreach Coordinator (classroom visits available)                                                                                    Culture Within a Culture– Voices of Women of Japanese Heritage in St. Louis

English Language Lessons
Gloria Etling - private tutoring or small groups
Kim Redeker -  private tutoring or small groups

Japanese Food Stores in St. Louis

Global Foods Market, 421 Kirkwood Road, Kirkwood, MO 63122 (314-835-1112)
Asia Market, 1243 Castillons Arcade Plaza, Creve Coeur, MO 63141 (314-878-0022)
Jay International Food, 3172 S. Grand, St. Louis, MO 63118 (phone 314-772-2552)
East-East Oriental Grocery, 8619 Olive Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63132 (314-432-5590)
East Oriental Grocery, 13365 Olive Blvd., Chesterfield, MO 63017 (314-205-1882)
Olive Farmers Market, 8041 Olive Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63130 (phone 314-997-5168)

Thank you to our sponsors:

Nobu's Japanese Restaurant, 8643 Olive St Rd, St. Louis, MO 63132 (314-997-2303)
Wasabi Sushi, four locations: St. Louis; Clayton, MO; Warson Woods, MO; Edwardsville, IL
Bob's Seafood, 8660 Olive Blvd, University City, MO 63132 (314-993-4844)
Asia Market, 1243 Casatillons Arcade Plaza, Creve Coeur, MO 63141 (314-878-0022)
Coldwell Banker-Gundaker, Bart & Debbie Pupillo, 14930 Clayton Rd, Chesterfield, MO 63017 (636-227-0076)
pbi Printing, 1209 Foxview Terrace, St. Louis, mO 63011 (636-256-4460)
Sue's Hair Center, April Hatsumi, 2801S McKnight Rd, Rock Hilll, MO 63119 (314-918-9996)

Books about the Japanese experience

In Japan:
Memories of Silk and Straw by Junichi Saga
Memories of Wind and Waves by Junichi Saga
A Boy Called H by Kappa Senoh
Shig: The True Story of an American Kamikaze by Shigeo Imamura
Cherry Blossoms in Twilight: Memories of a Japanese Girl by Yaeko S. Weldon/Linda E. Austin
The Girl With the White Flag by Tomiko Higa

In the U.S.
Bento Box in the Heartland by Linda Furiya
Kiyo's Story: A Japanese-American Family's Quest for the American Dream by Kiyo Sato
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
Looking Like the Enemy by Mary Matsuda Gruenewald
Desert Exile by Yoshiko Uchida

Reference:
Japanese Culture: 4th Edition by H. Paul Varley
A History of Japan: From Stone Age to Superpower by Kenneth G. Henshall
The Divine Wind by Rikihei Inoguchi/Tadashi Nakajima
Leaves from an Autumn of Emergencies by Samuel Hideo Yamashita
Senso: The Japanese Remember the Pacific War
Only What We Could Carry by Lawson Fusao Inada
Topaz Moon: Chiura Obata's Art of the Internment with Kimi Kodani Hill
Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese-American Internment by D. Lange/L. Gordon
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