Conference Schedule
	Saturday, April 4
	8:00 am Registration / JACCC Lobby
	8:30 am Opening Remarks / Japan America Theatre Warren Furutani, Executive Director, Asian Pacific Policy & Planning Council Japanese Americans in Context / Japan America Theatre Dr. Mitchell Maki, School of Social Welfare, UCLA
	9:00 am Opening Panel: Who are Japanese Americans? / Japan America Theatre Rev. Paul Nagano, Director, Council for Pacific Asian Theology Dr. Rebecca King, Sociology, University of San Francisco Lisa Sugino, Little Tokyo Community Development Dr. Charles Igawa, California Association of Japanese Language Schools Moderator, Bill Watanabe, Executive Director, Little Tokyo Service Center
	10:30 am Identifying the Ties that Bind us as Japanese Americans and as a Community / JACCC Center Building Facilitated small-group break-out sessions. What are the Issues? What is important to each of us?
	12:00 noon Lunch and Cold Tofu / JACCC Plaza Bento and laughs. Looking at our JA values with comedy improv group, Cold Tofu.
	1:30 pm Japanese American Values Panel / Japan America Theatre Looking at our Japanese American values, the "glue" that keeps our community together. With Dr. Curtiss Tanaka Rooks, Asian Pacific American Studies, Loyola Marymount, Dr. Tazuko Shibusawa, Social Welfare, Columbia University, Rev. Masao Kodani, Senshin Buddhist Temple. Moderator: Gerald Yoshitomi, Executive Director, JACCC.
	3:00 pm Report on Northern California Community Survey / Japan America Theatre Paul Osaki, Executive Director, Japanese Cultural & Community Center of Northern California
	3:15 pm Living JA: The Future of the Japanese American Community / JACCC Center Building All sessions to be summarized and made available to participants. Small group sessions of topic areas important for our community's future. Japanese American Leadership: Issues for the Future Demise of the Japanese Vernacular? Presenting Japanese Culture to the Next Generation So What, If I Don't Speak Japanese? JA Youth: Worthless? Cultureless? Do We Suck? Breaking the Bamboo Barrier: JA's in the Work Force Considering Our Elders: Issues of Aging J-Towns, Community Centers, JA Biz: A Place in the Future? Creating Japanese American Culture More to Life than Living: Role of the JA Church & Temple The Japanese Canadian Story Hapa Issues Interethnic Relations: Can't we all get along?
	5:00 pm Community Faire / Japan America Theatre Lobby Information and Literature tables.
	7:00 pm Dinner (optional) $20 additional per person. Not included with conference registration.