by Audrey Suga-Nakagawa State Representative Nadine Nakamura has become the first Asian female Speaker of the Hawaii House of Representatives in the United States. She is a third-generation Japanese American and the granddaughter of Reverend Yoshie Suga, the first head minister of Tenrikyo Lanai Church (Honjima). As the new House...
I’d like to wish everyone a joyful Thanksgiving weekend. 2024 has been a year of both joy, with the celebration of the 90th Anniversary of our Mission Headquarters in America, and much turmoil, given the natural disasters that seem to occur with increasing frequency. Yet, as a way to find...
“Stories Inspired by Oyasama” is a short film series brought to you by the Website Sub-Committee of Tenrikyo Mission Headquarters in America. It is a global collaboration inspired by love for and desire to share testimonies of Oyasama’s Parental Heart. Two of the creators, Michael Yuge (New York,...
There is now a number of video clips, with English voice-over and captions, that explains the Tenrikyo teachings specifically aimed for children. These are translations of a much larger library of video clips created by the Tenrikyo Boys and Girls Association. Here is the link to the playlist of videos...
We express our deepest condolences to those who lost their lives in the recent earthquake in southern Turkey and northern Syria, and our deepest sympathies to all those affected by this tragedy. 「このたびのトルコ南部・シリア北部の大地震によって命を失われた方々に心から哀悼の意を表しますとともに、被災された皆様に謹んでお見舞いを申し上げます。」
By Keiji Uesugi The Japanese garden at Roosevelt High School (RHS) traces its history back almost 100 years to the prewar era of L.A. In the early 20th century, Boyle Heights served as an extension to LA’s Japantown known as Little Tokyo, which resulted in the large presence of Japanese...
Shortly after moving to New Jersey, I became an instructor of the Children’s Japanese language classes for native speakers at Tenri Cultural Institute since I was once a teacher at elementary schools in Japan. After that, I obtained a master’s degree in Voice Pedagogy and Performance from a music college...
“Folgers in Your Shrine: Revisiting Tenrikyo” is a second interview by Rev. Michael Yuge, Executive Director of Tenri Cultural Institute of New York, with Sarah Walsh, a college student at Washington College. Her podcast is part of a series entitled “Come Pray with Me,” in which she interviewed guests from...
Our basement room is filled with half-baked interior-redesign projects that quite never made it to the finish line. In the worship room, our new aquarium, with fishes adopted in March of last year, has spread itself out, along with used sanitization bottles of all stripes and colors cluttering every nook...
In January of 2021, Rev. Michael Yuge, Executive Director of Tenri Cultural Institute of New York, was interviewed by Sarah Walsh, a college student at Washington College, for a podcast to answer questions about Tenrikyo and to share his thoughts on the teachings with her audience. Her podcast was part...