I live in a small town in Connecticut, USA (which, in turn, is a small New England state located in the northeastern US).
I’ve been intending to create a WK Community post to catalog all of the Japanese language and culture resources that I’m aware of that are available within the state of Connecticut - including Japan festivals and meetup groups and Japan Society affiliated groups and colleges and universities that offer Japanese language classes or programs, and museums or libraries with relevant collections, and beyond.
I’m not quite ready to do that, however as I was making a post in a different topic of mine earlier today, I discovered that there are a couple of upcoming-soon Japan-related events of note in New York City and in Boston that may interest some of the WK Community members, which led me to post this topic covering a larger (but not too much larger) geographical area than just Connecticut - see JME.TV - internet streaming service alternative to NHK/TV-Japan - #4 by servette
From my town, I can drive to the border of New York State in less than a half hour - and to the border of Massachusetts in less than forty-five minutes. It takes longer than that to get to New York City (a two-hour drive) or Boston (about a three hour drive). Two or three hours of driving would take me at least to the border (but in some cases also well beyond) of most of the other New England states of Vermont, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island (with the exception of Maine, which would take me another half hour).
So I guess that this topic could be used to share Japanese Language resources and/or cultural events or resources of interest to people in the northeastern US who may be close enough to take advantage of them.
By themselves, either the New York City metro area or the greater Boston area alone would be much too huge of a topic for me to realistically attempt to tackle, and so I’m not even going to try, beyond listing these two upcoming events - but anyone else who has such resources to share would be welcome to post them here as well.
I suppose that it’s even possible that WK Community members may want to use this topic to mention whether and when they may be visiting any of the events or other resources listed here (and maybe even consider meeting IRL - but of course that is optional).
