June, 18 2010

The New York Times / Travel

Heads Up | An All-Japanese Mash-Up
( By Bonnie Tsui )

THOUGH the Japantown area of San Francisco has remained largely static since the 1970s — stretches of concrete, blocky mini-malls and lots of sushi restaurants — a new wave of Japanese popular culture, from monster movies to Lolita dresses, has hit the area, thanks to the recent arrival of New People, a five-level, glass-walled, 20,000-square-foot shrine to all things Japanese…
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June, 2010

AsianWeek

Taiwanese Artist Debuts New Exhibit at NEW PEOPLE

NEW PEOPLE‘s SUPERFROG Gallery is proud to announce Taiwanese artist Yu-Cheng Chou’s newest exhibition, Because 64 Crayons Made in the USA, opening on June 26th and running until August 1st. Chou will attend a special opening party …
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June, 2010

AEROPLAN ARRIVAL

Things to do in San Francisco
( By WILLIAM WASS )
WHAT TO DO
Expect the gleefully unexpected at New People, an exotic, 20,000-sq.-ft. enclave that gives a hyperactive jolt to historic Japantown’s emporium-style shopping, subdued restaurants and antique dealers. Developed by a local film distribution …
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May, 2010

SFWeekly: Best Of Award

Best New Shopping Experience – 2010
Where else can you get Japanese goth dresses, anime DVDs, and gorilla-shaped iPod speakers, all under the same roof? New People offers all those items and more. Opened by VIZ Media founder Seiji Horibuchi, the three-story building houses…
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May 19, 2010

7×7 Magazine

Best Of San Francisco 2010: Home+Design
(By Leilani Labong)
Best Turning-Japanese Trend

If you’ve been intrigued by the goings-on behind the sparkling all-glass facade of Japantown’s bustling New People Mall, designed by SF’s Kwan Henmi architecture firm, here’s what to expect: anime movies in the underground cinema, Lolita-style attire for purchase…
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May 1, 2010

Toxic Graveyard Podcast

	This time around we have Mika from San Francisco’s New People / Viz Cinema! She talks about this great theater/store dedicated to Japanese culture and film…Go to site >>>   download .mp3

April, 2010

Food & Wine Magazine

25+ Food & Culture Experiences in Cities Across the U.S.
(By Kelly Snowden, Michelle Shih, Jen Murphy)
San Francisco: See It | Taste It
New People For Japanese-pop-culture fiends, this cinema and art gallery serves Blue Bottle Coffee and tasty bento boxes from Delica (newpeopleworld.com)….
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March 19, 2010

jetBlue

Meet New People: Shopping, Japanimated
(By Eliza Sarasohn)
San Francisco’s historic Japantown district may lack the density of tourist photo ops you’ll find in Chinatown, but from a cultural perspective, it’s a goldmine. After de-stressing the traditional Japanese way (with a nice long soak at Kabuki Bathhouse) and slurping some udon at…
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March, 2010

RED CARPET BAY AREA

February, 2010

Lucky Magazine

New People
Seiji Horibuchi, founder of Viz Media—the largest distributor of English-translated anime and manga in America—spent seven years dreaming up a retail venture that would reflect Japan’s art and fashion scene. The mind-bogglingly cool result is New People, a four-story theater/department store/café/gallery. Every few months…
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December, 2009

Sunset Magazine

City Find: A TOUCH OF TOKYO
We all love San Francisco’s Japantwon for its traditional shops and noodle joints. But NEW PEOPLE, a for-level pop culture complex steps from the iconic Peace Pagoda…Read the article >>>

October, 2009

Los Angeles Times: Travel

San Francisco: Japantown’s New People offers manga, anime and edgy fashion
(By Susan Derby, Special to the Los Angeles Times)
San Francisco’s Japantown had long needed a jump-start. Its soba, sushi and traditional art are great draws, but if you were seeking, say, platform shoes to knock the knee-high socks off the Goth-Lolita-fashionista…
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September 13, 2009

The Sacramento Bee

Japanese culture, S.F.-style, rises into the 21st century
(By Carla Meyer)
SAN FRANCISCO – Japantown, a six-square-block area of this city known for its restaurants and shops, recently became a hub for cinema as well. Japantown’s main drag, Post Street, holds the Sundance Kabuki multiplex and the Viz Cinema, both of which have…
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August 29, 2009

Gothic Beauty Magazine

New People Grand Opening and the J-Pop Summit Festival 2009
(By Ruby Holiday)
Earlier this year I learned of a new store that was set to open in August. This store was designed to showcase big names, interests and all other things that make Japanese pop culture so exciting. Being someone that has been interested in Japanese culture…
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August 27, 2009

The Examiner

New People: new investment in SF Japantown
(By George Calys)
It’s the last thing anyone would expect to see–a new, from the ground up, retail building in the current retail-averse economy. But that’s exactly what developer Seiji Horibuchi has done in San Francisco’s Japantown. Horibuchi founded VIZ Pictures and Media in San Francisco…
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August 16, 2009

San Francisco Chronicle

J-Pop festival delivers in S.F.
(By Robert Selna)
Harajuku girls and Japanese movie stars showed up Saturday to San Francisco’s Japantown to celebrate the opening of the New People J-Pop complex and to get a peek at its offerings of art, design, film and quirky fashions. Billed as the J-Pop summit, attractions included…
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August 9, 2009

San Francisco Chronicle

J-Pop explodes: New People mall opening in S.F.
(By Beth Hughes)
Pop goes Japantown. New People, the nation’s first retail and entertainment complex dedicated to Japanese popular culture, opens on Post Street on Saturday. J-Pop, as its friends call it, is all about the cultural phenomena that are comic books, animated films, movies…
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August 6, 2009

SFGate

The Pokemon generation grows up
(By Jeff Yang)
As manga mogul Seiji Horibuchi prepares for the launch of his latest venture, a media center/retail concept in San Francisco dubbed “New People” — he explains to Jeff Yang why America, or at least the Bay Area, is ready for the mainstreaming of J-pop…
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July 28, 2009

The Examiner

Yoshitaka Amano Interview and SUPERFROG Gallery
(By James Fleenor)
NEW PEOPLE is not the average cultural exhibit. This new attraction opening next month, August 15th, in San Francisco, CA, is unlike anything seen in the states with its mixture of Japanese culture, art, cinema and much more. Part of this mixing of …
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July, 2009

MTV Iggy

GRAND OPENING, SAN FRANCISCO: FIRST ADVENTURE OF THE J-POP CENTER PROJECT
(By Stan Yee)
VIZ Pictures, a Japanese live-action film distributor and producer of the J-Pop Center Project, adds a captivating new dimension to the city of San Francisco with the opening of a vivid new attraction – NEW PEOPLE – in the heart of the city’s historic Japantown…
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