In May 2005, a renown Japanese male choir group visited the United States and performed in New York, Chicago and San Francisco. For their San Francisco performance, they were joined by several groups from Northern California on the same stage and sang Furusato No Shiki (Four seasons). This successful San Francisco performance brought a vision that one day they would again sing together on the big stage. In July, 2007, a federation of Japanese choral groups established JCFNC. Currently the federation consists of six Japanese choral groups, two from the South Bay, three from San Francisco and one from Sacramento. JCFNC has held annual concerts for their own for past three years.