The Nihon Matsuri Japan Festival this weekend aims to highlight forgotten moments of Japanese-American history in Utah as well as Japanese culture. The festival is Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in what once was Japantown in Salt Lake City.
that housed 2,000 people and featured businesses, schools and churches and community spaces. Today, Japantown has faded from popular memory and only two buildings remain: the Japanese Church of Christ and the Salt Lake Buddhist Temple.this weekend aims to highlight that and other forgotten moments of Japanese-American history Utah as well as Japanese culture.
"I think people do not understand the role that the Japanese have played in Utah history," Nihon Matsuri chairman Floyd Mori said. "The festival is to celebrate but also to help people remember and understand that there is a significant Japanese American segment of Utah and that they have played a very important part in the history of Utah."
The festival is Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on 100 South between 200 and 300 West at the edges of what was Japantown. Today, the heart of the city's historic Japantown is covered by the Salt Palace. In 1967, the town was demolished to make way for the convention center.
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