Nakama again voted best Japanese/sushi restaurant in Pittsburgh by readers who don't know Japanese/sushi restaurants in Pittsburgh.

Nakama Japanese Steakhouse & Sushi Bar was again voted the best Japanese/sushi restaurant by readers of Pittsburgh Magazine. Nakama has been voted #1 each year by readers since 2009, and is also perennial winner of the Pittsburgh City-Paper readers' poll.

Also of relevance to this site: Sesame Inn was voted Best Chinese, Nicky's Thai Kitchen was voted Best Thai, and Pusadee's Garden was voted best Al Fresco (open air).

DJ Bamboo mixtape release party at Umami, June 25.

Pittsburgh-based DJ Bamboo is throwing a release party at Umami on June 25 for his Bento Boombox mixtape. The event runs from 10:00 pm to 2:00 am. Umami is located at 202 38th Street in Lawrenceville (map).

Pittsburgh native in the news for aiding Japan's refugees.

The Japan Times profiles Alex Easley---a Pittsburgher who moved to Japan 40 years ago to pursue a singing and modeling career---and his work with Japan's refugees.

"Storytime: Chinese and English" at Carnegie Library in Squirrel Hill, June 22.

The Carnegie Library in Squirrel Hill will host the next "Storytime: Chinese and English" on Wednesday, June 22 from 6:00 to 6:30 pm.

Celebrate our city’s diverse culture as we explore new words through songs, action rhymes and stories in both English and Chinese. For children birth-5 years and their caregivers.

The library is located at 5801 Forbes Ave. (map) and is accessible by buses 61A, 61B, 61C, 61D, 64, and 74.

Chinese Knot Pendant Tutorial, June 19 at Carnegie Library Oakland.

"Chinese Knots" by Kirk Slang (Creative Commons)

The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Main Branch will hold a Chinese Knot Pendant Tutorial on Sunday, June 19, at 3:30 pm in the Large Print Room.

The library is located at 4400 Forbes Ave. in Oakland (map), and the large print room is located on the first floor, to the left, around the corner from the rest rooms.

Korean fried chicken and waffle cupcake with soju glaze, by Yummyholic for tonight's Squirrel Hill Night Market.

Documentary Human Harvest (活摘,大衛戰紅魔) at CMU, June 22.

The 2014 documentary Human Harvest (活摘,大衛戰紅魔) will play at Carnegie Mellon University on June 22. The documentary received a Peabody Award in 2014, and is summarized by the awards site:

Like a mystery novel with a devastating denouement, Leon Lee’s documentary starts with numbers that don’t add up and divines an unthinkable explanation. China had no organ-donation system until 2010, yet it’s now the one place in the world where a person can get a heart and lung transplant in less than a week. People flock there by the thousands, checkbooks in hand, to get new kidneys, lungs and livers. China insists executed prisoners are the source, but David Matas, David Kilgour and other human rights activists tell Lee that the country would have to be executing more than 10 times the number it officially reports to generate such a huge supply of compatible organs. Lee found sources inside China who say that the answer is that the harvesting of organs is the execution and that the victims are mostly prisoners of conscience, practitioners of Falun Gong, a persecuted spiritual movement whose goals include better health. Lee bolsters his case not only with interviews with doctors and nurses who describe taking organs from prisoners still alive but with simple telephone inquiries to Chinese hospitals where arranging a transplant seems only slightly more complicated than ordering takeout.

It will play from 7:30 pm at the Rangos Ballroom in the Jared L. Cohon University Center (campus map).

"Storytime: Japanese and English" at Carnegie Library in East Liberty, June 21.

The next installment of the monthly program "Storytime: Japanese and English" will take place on June 21 at the Carnegie Library in East Liberty.

Celebrate our city's diverse culture as we explore new words through songs, action rhymes and stories in both English and Japanese. For children ages 2-5 and their parents or caregivers.

It runs from 11:00 to 11:30 am. The library is located at 130 S. Whitfield St. (map).

AMPD Group hiring bilingual Japanese-English graphic designer for "Japanese inspired bar/restaurant in Downtown Pittsburgh".

AMPD Group is hiring a bilingual Japanese-English graphic designer "to help create marketing materials for our Japanese inspired bar/restaurant in Downtown Pittsburgh".

We are currently looking to hire a Japanese bilingual Graphic Designer to fill a project-based position with our company located in Pittsburgh, PA. The chosen candidate will be working to help create marketing materials for our Japanese inspired bar/restaurant in Downtown Pittsburgh.

NAAAP Asian American Women in Entrepreneurship Speaker Series: Jasmine Cho, June 28.

The Pittsburgh chapter of the National Association of Asian American Professionals will host the first of its Asian American Women in Entrepreneurship Speaker Series on June 28 with Jasmine Cho of Yummyholic.

Join us on Tuesday, June 28 at 6:30pm at the Allegheny HYP Club as we spend the evening with rockstar entrepreneur, and all around awesome person Jasmine Cho. Learn about how she got started in the local entrepreneur scene, her background and her vision for the future as she takes her start-up, Yummyholic to the next level. It's going to be a fun night that promises to reveal many insights to Pittsburgh's booming start-up scene. If you are an entrepreneur, if you are looking for inspiration, or if you want to learn what it's like to be an Asian American female entrepreneur here in Pittsburgh, you don't want to miss this series! More details will become available as the event date approaches.

This event is free for all to attend.
Cash bar and light hors d'oeuvres will be available.
Please bring a friend!!

The Allegheny HYP Club is located at 619 William Penn Pl. downtown (map).