{"id":62492,"date":"2025-12-20T09:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T17:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/state-recognizes-san-joses-japantown-as-a-cultural-district\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T09:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T17:30:14","slug":"state-recognizes-san-joses-japantown-as-a-cultural-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/state-recognizes-san-joses-japantown-as-a-cultural-district\/","title":{"rendered":"State recognizes San Jose\u2019s Japantown as a cultural district"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For community leaders in San Jose\u2019s Japantown, receiving statewide recognition as a cultural district affirms what they already know about the historic neighborhood. After a competitive process of more than 70 applicants, Japantown is one of 10 neighborhoods chosen last week to be a state-designated cultural district. This recognition provides the district with a $10,000 grant, as well as branding resources to attract more visitors. The five-year designation runs from Jan. 1, 2026 to Dec. 31, 2030. \u201cRegardless of the designation, we already know that we\u2019re a cultural district,\u201d Vanessa Hatakeyama, executive director of the Japanese American Museum of San&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/california-recognizes-san-joses-japantown-as-a-cultural-district\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For community leaders in San Jose\u2019s Japantown, receiving statewide recognition as a cultural district affirms what they already know about the historic neighborhood. After a competitive process of more than 70 applicants, Japantown is one of 10 neighborhoods chosen last week to be a state-designated cultural district. This recognition provides the district with a $10,000 &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}