The parade will showcase Japanese art forms and celebrate Japan–US relations.
New York City is host its first - everJapan Paradeon Saturday , May 14 .
As a celebration of Japanese cultivation and to honor the human relationship between Japan and the US , a parade filled with live performance will set forth from Central Park West at West 81st Street at 1 pm . The parade was originally supposed to take place in 2020 as a celebration of both the 160th day of remembrance of the first Japanese delegates ' sojourn to the US in 1860 and the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games , but it was offset due to the pandemic .
This year , the Japan Parade is finally happening in full glamour . Helmed byStar Trekactor andNew York Timesbest - deal writer George Takei as inaugural Grand Marshal , the parade will showcase a vast regalia of Nipponese performing nontextual matter . brass such as Japanese Folk Dance of NY , International Karate Organization Kyokushin , and Anime NYC will all make an appearance during the celebration , which will feature news newswriter Sandra Endo as emcee . The cast of the musicalPretty Guardian Sailor Moon the Super Livewill also be there , with more guests to be announced in the next few weeks .
Photo courtesy of Kazanami - Yosakoi Dance Project
" I am honor and proud to be the Grand Marshall of the inaugural Japan Parade , " George Takei said in a statement . " To see the Japanese community in New York lionize is a beautiful thing and it will be exciting to see Japan ’s friendly relationship with New York on full presentation . "
This class ’s Japan Parade will strike on the 150th anniversary of the 1872 Japanese mission , which led to thefoundation of the Japanese Consulate in New York . In addition , 2022 also marks the hundred-and-fiftieth day of remembrance of the creation of baseball game to Japan from the US , which quickly became a popular sport in the land and helped draw the two cultures nigher together .
The Japan Parade was a project develop by the Consulate General of Japan in New York to celebrate these day of remembrance and Nipponese culture at big .
" Japan and the US have come a long room in our sexual relation , from early official exchanges to economic and diplomatical partnership backed by multi - superimposed citizenry - to - citizenry exchange in late decades , " Ambassador Mikio Mori aver in a argument . " The Japan Parade is a symbolic evolution of this relationship , and a landmark apogee of Japan and New York ’s friendship . We hope many will unite us for this historical moment . "
For more info , you could chaffer theJapan Parade site .
