A support group for foreign nationals from Japan visiting the USA on F-1 OPT, WB/WT, B-1/B-2, or similar category. Please read 29 CFR 553.106(a).  Non-foreign nationals must be employed to work at a company that offers matching gifts and/or community service grants.  Example: Verizon.

We can have an old fashioned dual with paper and folding skills! If you love to turn and ordinary piece of paper into a beautiful, complex, geometric shape then this is the group for you. My ultimate goal for this group is for like minded, friendly, outgoing people meet up once in a while to hang out and fold. We can meet up every so often and share cool origami folds that we've learned. It can be as informal as meeting at a coffee shop and just chatting or more formal and having like set speci …

Meet fellow Anime Fans near you! Come to a local Anime Meetup for fun, friends and talk about your favorite Anime/Manga artists, shows and games. Share your own art and fiction! Whatever interests you about Anime and Manga is welcome here.

Aloha  New members; Please read all of this important information. Backroads Wine & nature Adventures is a unique combination of wine viticulture, physical fitness, art, photography, & nature adventures. I conduct full time activity to research, trail blazing, Exploring, volunteering, & networking with Wineries, Recreation equipment providers, Land owners, & providing donations to various NP organizations. Come join the fun of exploring seldom visited and little known places of interest, such as …

Anime and all things related! Did you enjoy a high school or college Anime club? Well, continue to enjoy the company of fellow Otakus and join CAFe to watch Anime, cosplay, go to cons, eat lots of Japaneses food, enjoy some j-rock or games, and just hang out with other people just like You! ^_^ Anyone near Napa (or willing to drive) that is interested is welcome to join.

Come to practice English or any foreign language. We gather informally to chat, make new friends, learn about other cultures and maybe find a language exchange partner. Come share your English or foreign language skills while socializing and meeting interesting and worldy people. Languages you may hear at our events are English, Spanish, Korean, French, Chinese, Portuguese, Japanese, Turkish, Italian, Arabic, German, Thai, Russian and much more!

This group is for classy San Francisco Bay Area Asian-Americans who want to party hard with their fellow sexy Asians.  This meetup has the hookups with the best event promoters in town and we get special guestlist privileges and super cheap bottle service prices specifically for us. This is your "in" to the hottest Asian-American Club events in SF every week! The goal of this group is to reach out to Bay Area Asians in their 20's and 30's to come party at the best events that are packed with the …

If the thought of Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior fascinates you and you've been pondering Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji for some time, then this is the book club for you!  Slice of Mooncake is based in San Francisco and will focus on literature primarily by Asian American authors, but will also embrace stories centered on Asian culture, history, and icons. Selection of readings will be suggested by both the Organizer and members, and include current fiction, nonfiction, classics …

East Bay Anime is being created to give the community a place to gather, watch, and talk about Japanese animation. From projects, conventions, cosplay, each meeting will include screenings of anime films and episodes, discussions and much more. This group is primarily focused on youths and young adults. Our goal is to grow and nurture a supportive avenue for the community to enjoy and share their anime fan experience. The meeting may have giveaways from sponsors which include Viz Media. Artists, …

The Bay Area Shiba Inu Meetup is a play-date and information sharing meetup. Utilizing our events as well as message board, we hope to enrich the lives of our pups and share Shiba knowledge. We also hope our members feel free to make meetup suggestions for items ranging from play-date venues to meetup activities as well as have a wonderful time participating in our events.

The purpose of this group is to join all languages and cultures. America was once considered a melting pot, and in our opinion it it still is. We are starting this group because we want to shout out that not all Americans are monolingual. Many of us are bilingual and multilingual. Even if we don't necessarily speak the same native language does not mean that we can't get together and speak the languages we want to learn, teach each other, or practice with others. We will not limit this group to …

Based in Mountain View, this Meetup is for people who like Japanese food and meeting new people. Have you lived in or been to Japan and have experiences to share? Want to practice Japanese? Come join us at our next Meetup!

We have a basic Japanese class on Monday for everybody! Join us! We offer: Basic Conversation/Grammar Reading/Writing Hiragana/Katakana/Kanji Pronunciation Culture - music, food, history, etc... We were born and raised in  Japan.We have a passion to teach everybody about REAL Japanese culture.We decided to have Japanese class to teach real conversation, traditional culture, trendy things and much much more. Through the conversation class, you will learn the REAL Japan and have some great fun!

Welcome to the North Oakland Go Club! Our regular playing time is 11:00 AM 3:00 PM each Sunday at the It's Your Move game store at 4920 Telegraph Ave. in the Temescal business district (a block south of 51st St., across from Walgreen's). Our goal is to provide a welcoming, supportive environment for players from first-timers to experts, focusing on the beauty and intellectual challenge of the game at least as much as on who's winning.  Anyone can learn to play, including children as young as fiv …

This groups talks the importance of each and every culture in the world and unifies the differences that make us separate as people. We go into African, American, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Hmong, Taiwanese, Laotian, Siamese, Native American, Latino, Hispanic, Aztec, Mayan, Spanish, Indian, Hawaiian, European and Filipino cultures. We teach the importance of each and every culture and what they have done in society. We teach why it’s important to knows these cultures. A lot of cultures in th …

Silicon Valley Japanese-English Toastmasters (SVJETS) is a bilingual public speaking club for Japanese and English. Whether you need to improve your presentation skills for work, or are just looking to brush up your conversation, SVJETS is the best place for both Japanese and English speaking people! Our meetings feature interesting speeches, good jokes, and table topics Q&A sessions that challenges people to answer on the spot. Guests are welcome to participate in the table topics sessions, …

Practice your Japanese or English while having fun with us!

I created this meet up to meet new people over yummy meals.  I plan to host at least one event each month.  I look forward to meeting people who are interested in Japanese culture and interested in dining out.  Cheers!

The aim of this group is to bring together internationally-minded people with a European affinity. Through convivial cross-cultural social gatherings we are building a vibrant circle of cosmopolitan friends who meet, talk, exchange experiences, practice their language skills, or just relax and feel at home. Anyone born in Europe or who has lived there or has some other strong European connection is welcome. If an expatriate, you might have just recently relocated to the U.S. or be a long-time na …

サンフランシスコの観光を楽しみましょう。 Who the group is for: サンフランシスコ在住で日本に興味を持っている方　－　日本人でサンフランシスコに興味を持っている方　－　英語が母国語で、日本語のスキル向上を目指している方　－　日本語が母国語で、英語のスキル向上を目指している方

Sushi lovers! Interested in explore the SF sushi scene, indulge in delicious sushi and Japanese food? Let's do this!

Getting rusty on the language you have learned? Hoping to practice Japanese speaking skills for your work? The Japanese Conversation Corner will be a spot for you to meet and practice Japanese with peers who love and speak Japanese like you! - Within every meeting, one theme will be displayed and discussed without restrictions! - Know Japanese Culture through discussion, Q & A - Speak/Practice Japanese with Native Japanese speakers and those who also learn Japanese!

ALL Levels Welcome! Everyone has a part to play! We are here for ONE THING - conversation in Japanese. Our time is spent focused on activities and games that improve our ability to communicate in Japanese and English. While dining out can be interesting - conversation seems to always just touch the surface. "Where are you from?" or "Tell me about your hobbies." Activities like going to show are fun - but we want to speak and communicate, not just watch. Language learning can be so much more. We …

This friendly group welcomes you to Japan's rich world of artistic animation. Our focus is limited series, an institution in Japanese late-night television. These are not like American TV shows that just add more episodes until the ratings drop. They are planned as complete stories in 12-26 half-hour episodes, sometimes with just one writer and one director. Like movies, most suck, but some are brilliant. We will be watching the brilliant ones. Japanese TV has four seasons corresponding to the q …

A unique group for Japanese women and American men who are interested in meeting each other. This group will support the many men who have lived in Japan, speak Japanese or have a deep interest and connection with Japanese culture. And it will support the many Japanese women in the area who would like to meet men with an honest interest in and knowledge of Japanese culture. Due to the increasing number of American men who have lived in Japan or like Japanese culture and the increasing number of …

OTAKUS ASSEMBLE!!!! Tired of having a great hobby but nobody to talk to about it? Well the YCAC is all about bringing Anime lovers, Otaku, Mangaka, and all other kinds of people interested in Japanese Anime, manga and Culture together to share in their intrests. Club chats will include but not limited to, Anime/manga discussion, Voice actors roles, Cosplay, Otaku words and phrases, and Anime Viewing. I welcome both Veteran and Noobs to come. It might start out slowly but we will certainly have f …

Calling All Cosplayers! Let's get together between conventions - we can hang out, talk about our costumes, sew together, make props together, teach each other, and meet new people! This group will mostly be for cosplay-related outings: sewing circles, prop days, fabric hunting trips, and things like that. Maybe we can even have lectures from local awesome costumers? After all, there's always something new to learn!

This group is for American raised moms of Japanese descent. We straddle the line between being raised here in America, but having strong ties to our cultural heritage and often the unique experience of having grown up in homes where Japanese culture was predominant. This group is mainly an English speaking group but we can happily all work on our Japanese together (and maybe work on it with our kids too). Together we can share our unique perspectives with each other and expose our kids to some o …