About the JCC
The Japanese Culture Center was established to make some of the arts, crafts, and philosophical riches of Japan available to the general public.
The Center is not a museum where lifeless objects are displayed. Rather, it is a school where living skills are passed on -person-to-person- as they have been for centuries. Arts from other countries, which complement the Center’s function, are also offered.
The curriculum includes classic martial arts such as Aikido, Karate, JKA Karate, Kendo, Shorinji Kempo, Kenpo, Bujinkan, and Iaido, as well as, modern arts like Capoeira, and the powerful developmental practice of Zen and Yoga.
Cultural courses are also available in the form of Chanoyu (tea ceremony), Ikebana (flower arrangement), and Japanese language. The fundamental purpose of these courses it to enable students to realize their full potential: to unify mind and body, develop natural abilities, and live dynamic, creative lives.
Just inside the door of the Center is a wooden panel on which are carved the characters “Ten Shin Kan,” or “Place of the Universal Mind/Body/Spirit”. In the spirit of the traditional training halls of the Orient, the JCC is a true “dojo”, or “house of the way”.
Please, click here to make a reservation to participate in a free trial class.
