Our Mission

The Orange County Japanese American Association (OCJAA ) tries to provide a wide variety of social services and cultural activities to unite various Japanese American and Japanese organizations as well as to impact and improve the life and well-being of the Japanese Americans in Orange County.

The OCJAA was started in 1986 to achieve the following goals:

1. Increase recognition of physical, psychological and social needs of Japanese Americans in Orange County.

2. Start and increase grass-roots led programs and activities to meet the needs of Japanese Americans.

3. We support events such as picnic, sports or cultural exhibitions that will promote true and better understanding of our culture.

4. We develop and integrate culturally sensitive standards by working with other Asian and Pacific Islander communities in Orange County. The OCJAA provides bilingual/bicultural monthly social service publication, the Orange Network, which outreaches to those Japanese and Japanese Americans in the Orange County area who can not access newspapers, radio or television due to their inablity to understand English. It also promotes small businesses in the JA Community by offering low advertisement rates.