The Japanese Culture Club hosted its first Cherry Blossom Festival at Sneaky Park to celebrate the coming of spring and bring Japanese tradition to the University of La Verne Tuesday.

May 5 is usually thought of as Cinco de Mayo, but in Japan it is a national holiday called Children’s Day, which celebrates the happiness of children and expresses gratitude to mothers.

The meltdown at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear Reactor in Fukushima, Japan has brought more devastation to a country already recovering from an earthquake and tsunami.

A benefit concert for students and families in Japan was put on at 8 p.m. Sunday in the Garrison Theater in Claremont.