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*''Built: [[1899]]''
The Asahi Theater, or Asahi-za, was the first Japanese theater established in Honolulu. It was built on Beretania Street in Chinatown in [[1899]], and the following year a troupe formed to perform ''[[shinpa]]'' (modern theater) plays there. The theater was destroyed in a Chinatown fire the same year, but was rebuilt in [[1908]].
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==References==
*Franklin Odo and Kazuko Sinoto, ''A Pictorial History of the Japanese in Hawaii'' 1885-1924, Bishop Museum (1985), 123.
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The Asahi Theater, or Asahi-za, was the first Japanese theater established in Honolulu. It was built on Beretania Street in Chinatown in [[1899]], and the following year a troupe formed to perform ''[[shinpa]]'' (modern theater) plays there. The theater was destroyed in a Chinatown fire the same year, but was rebuilt in [[1908]].
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==References==
*Franklin Odo and Kazuko Sinoto, ''A Pictorial History of the Japanese in Hawaii'' 1885-1924, Bishop Museum (1985), 123.
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[[Category:Meiji Period]]
[[Category:Historic Buildings]]
