国产精品美女一区二区三区-国产精品美女自在线观看免费-国产精品秘麻豆果-国产精品秘麻豆免费版-国产精品秘麻豆免费版下载-国产精品秘入口

Set as Homepage - Add to Favorites

【ポルノ映画館 淫乱化】Little Tokyo Wishing Tree Wishes Removed from Japanese Village Plaza

Source：Global Hot Topic Analysis Editor：synthesize Time：2025-07-02 14:44:42
Since 2011, visitors to Japanese Village Plaza have hung their wishes on a bamboo tree. (PETER YOON/Rafu Shimpo)

By PETER YOON, Rafu Digital Editor

The Little Tokyo Wishing Tree, a popular attraction in Japanese Village Plaza, is gone.  

Naoko Ikeda, proprietor of Blooming Art Gallery, received the notification to remove the wishes from the tree via an email from American Commercial Equities Management Offices, which manages the Japanese Village Plaza property.

Ikeda, known by her friends as Nikki, stayed up until midnight on Jan. 15 tearing down the wishes of hundreds of Little Tokyo visitors. “I closed at 7 and spent five hours to take down the paper,” she said.

The Wishing Tree was inspired by the Tanabata celebration in Japan, which occurs every year on the seventh day of the seventh month. People of all ages write their wishes on colorful pieces of paper called tanzakuand tie them to bamboo trees. The collection of colors decorating the trees adds to the festive atmosphere of the summer holiday.

The Tanabata wishing tree covered in wishes. (SOPHIA COLE/Rafu Shimpo)

Ikeda began the Wishing Tree in 2011, following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster caused by the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Donations of $1 were collected for each wish that was tied to the tree, to be donated to the relief efforts in Fukushima.  

Over a six-month period, Ikeda collected over $4,000 in donations, which she hand-delivered to Fukushima City Hall. She received a letter of recognition from Fukushima Prefecture for her contribution.

Ikeda continued to collect donations for the Wishing Tree, donating the proceeds to local temples in Little Tokyo. “I have a passion to do this. I’ve been doing this for over 12 years,” she said.  

This year, she chose to contribute the donations to Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple, which was the victim of a possible hate crime — arson and vandalism — in early 2021.   

Naoko Ikeda delivers the Tanabata tree wishes to Bishop Noriaki Ito at Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple. (PETER YOON/Rafu Shimpo)

A representative of Japanese Village Plaza cited fire risk as the primary reason for the removal.  “The primary concern we have is that it does pose a fire risk because of all the paper,” the representative said in a phone interview. “We have had incidents in the past where vagrants and teenagers have set it on fire. Luckily all those were contained, but we wanted to avoid that situation because it is somewhat of a liability.”

Naoko Ikeda displays one of the wishes from the Tanabata wishing tree. (PETER YOON/Rafu Shimpo)

Ikeda hopes to continue sharing Japanese culture and activities with Little Tokyo visitors. “I want to continue doing it because people want to do something special when they visit Little Tokyo.  Not just eat and shop and go,” she said. “They’re looking for a taste of Japan, feel of Japan, speaking Japanese, learning Japanese culture. If they don’t see that, they could just go to a big shopping mall. Why would they come to Little Tokyo?”

The wishes that were removed from the tree in Japanese Village Plaza were collected by Ikeda and delivered to Higashi Honganji. Here are a few of the wishes:

“I wish for my friends to get good fortunes and blessings in the same way that they bless me.”

“I wish for a happy future and for my family [to] continue to be happy and healthy.”

“I wish that my family can have a good life :).”

Local news requires reader support. If you have a story you’d like to share or something you think should be investigated, submit your ideas here.

This publication was supported in whole or in part by funding provided by the State of California, administered by the California State Library.

0.1956s , 9941.3671875 kb

Copyright © 2025 Powered by 【ポルノ映画館 淫乱化】Little Tokyo Wishing Tree Wishes Removed from Japanese Village Plaza,Global Hot Topic Analysis  

Sitemap

Top 主站蜘蛛池模板： 18以下勿进色禁网站永久视频 | 91精品无码中文字幕在线不卡 | av影音先锋影院男人站 | 成年人在线观看免费 | 91人妻无码精品一区二区毛片 | 91久久亚洲综合精品国产 | 国产白丝直播在线观看 | 高潮日本专区 | 暴力强j激烈反抗av 暴露放荡的娇妻 | 91超级碰| 国产白浆喷水在线视频免费看 | 成人777 | 91久久久久久国产精品 | 99欧美午夜一区二区福利视频 | 国产av综合第一页一个的一区免费影院黑人 | 一区二区三区伦理高清 | 18女下面流水不遮图免费图 | a级在线播放 | 国产91久久思思爱豆 | 99久久久国产精品免费软件 | 午夜内射中出视频 | 丰满少妇人妻久久 | 果冻传媒董小宛一区二区[庚新] | 福利电影一区二区三区 | 97无码久久久久中文字幕精品 | 91看看午夜福利1000 | 99精品国产自产在线观看 | 91免费国产视频 | 91久久夜色精 | av大片在线无码永久 | 国产v亚洲v天堂在线 | 丰满少妇大力进入 | 国产产区一二三产区区别在线 | 成人韩免费网站 | 91插插插插插 | 天美传媒国产电视推荐 | 国产91精品一区二区免费在线播放 | 97久久精品亚洲中文字幕无码 | 91精产国品一二三产区区别在 | a天堂视频| 91亚洲无码在线观看 |