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Manzanar Committee
Please join us for the Los Angeles Day of Remembrance in commemorating the signing of Executive Order 9066 which led to the forced removal and incarceration of 120,000 persons of Japanese Ancestry. With speakers Mario Perez (Immigrant Justice Fellow at the Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice), Dr. Curtiss Takada Rooks (Program Coordinator of Asian Pacific American Studies), and Mariko Fujimoto Rooks (senior at Yale University).
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JANM, NAMED ONE OF ‘AMERICA’S CULTURAL TREASURES,’ RECEIVES $5.5 MILLION GRANT OVER FOUR YEARS FROM THE FORD FOUNDATIONThe Japanese American National Museum (JANM) is honored to be selected as one of the 20 Black, Latinx, Asian, and Indigenous arts and cultural organizations designated as “America’s Cultural Treasures,” and to be the recipient of a $5.5 million grant over four years, thanks to the vision and generosity of the Ford Foundation along with other leading foundations and major donors who have pledged to donate more than $80 million to this initiative. |
JANM is temporarily closed to the public until further notice. In addition, all on-site public programs, group visits, and rentals are cancelled until further notice. Virtual Visits are available for grades 1-12, college, and adult groups. Click here for more information regarding JANM’s response to COVID-19. Updated 12/3/20
While our doors remain temporarily shuttered we will bring you virtual programming that will continue to inspire, educate, and help you stay connected. We are sharing content every day across JANM’s social media platforms. Join us to be inspired, educated, and engaged! JANM From Home is about content and connection.
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Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation and the Embassy of Japan in the United States
When the US government incarcerated Japanese Americans during World War II, it also made a concerted effort to pressure the young Nisei generation to assimilate into the American culture at large and abandon the Japanese parts of their culture. Japanese American culture, however, proved more resilient than the government could imagine. Nearly 80 years later, in a climate of peaceful US-Japan relations, many Japanese Americans still hold fast to or seek out community and tradition, even as they look ahead to the future. Join an intergenerational panel of luminaries for a frank and personal discussion of identity and cultural survival in the 21st century.
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San Joaquin Delta College
Virtual panel discussion in association with new exhibition, Shadows of the Past: Sansei Artists and the American Concentration Camps, curated by Gail Enns. Exhibiting artist Jerry Takigawa will preside as moderator and present his photographic series, Balancing Cultures. Panelists: Larry Oda, past President of the JACL; Susan H. Kamei, Associate Director of the Spatial Sciences Institute, USC; Ann Burroughs, President and CEO, JANM; Clement Hanami, VP of Exhibitions and Art, JANM.
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National Museum of American History
Join this Day of Remembrance panel to commemorate the thousands of people affected by this human rights abuse. Our discussion this year features news anchor and filmmaker David Ono and his documentary series FACEism, which examines how racism is rooted in often ignored and painful histories. Panelists will consider the documentary and explore how community activists further discussions about history, accountability, and injustice in our past, present, and future.
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Mineta Legacy Project
“What Does it Mean to Be an American?” in observance of the Day of Remembrance, is a webinar for teachers and educators to introduce a powerful learning tool designed to engage and empower students. Developed by the Mineta Legacy Project in partnership with SPICE (Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education), this innovative free online curriculum offers six unique and customized lessons tailored for educators, high school students, and college students to examine what it means to be American. Presented by curriculum developer Rylan Sekiguchi, SPICE; and Dianne Fukami and Debra Nakatomi, co-producers of the Mineta Legacy Project; the program will feature a 45-minute tour examining history, identity, and current events exploring 6 themes: Immigration, Civil Liberties & Equity, Civic Engagement, Justice & Reconciliation, Leadership, and U.S-Japan Relations.
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Gardena Valley Japanese Cultural Institute
Each year, the Gardena Valley Japanese Cultural Institute (GVJCI) holds its annual Day of Remembrance (DOR) which commemorates the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII. A different theme and related film is selected each year, and a panel of experts is carefully selected to help further educate the community on the events, experiences, and lessons that should be learned from this time in American history.
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JANM’s Discover Nikkei project is compiling photos to share its global Nikkei community’s Hinamatsuri traditions. We want to see photos of your family’s special dolls, foods, and other traditional (or non-traditional) decorations and celebrations. Photos can be from past years or to share how you are finding ways to celebrate this year despite the pandemic.
To participate, photos must be submitted with descriptions from now through March 12, 2021 to editor@DiscoverNikkei.org.
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Create a permanent physical memorial to family members, friends, or colleagues at an historically-significant site. One of the most meaningful ways to support the Japanese American National Museum is introduced in this video by JANM Membership and Individual Giving Manager Alyctra Matsushita and Senior Philanthropy Officer John Esaki. Limited space remains to inscribe the names of individuals, families, or honorees in selected public areas of JANM for gifts of $5,000 and above.
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JANM is proud to support Stand For The Arts and Be an Arts Hero who have joined forces to rally a coalition of arts organizations, venues and individuals across the country to make a bold call to Congress: Do not leave 4.5% of the nation’s GDP out of a relief package or future budgets. Recognize the cultural AND economic value of the arts, and commit to investing in its workers. This campaign, led by the partnership between Stand for the Arts and Be an Arts Hero, is a call to action to demand immediate relief from Congress for the arts and culture sector.
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JANM continues to partner with Made By Us to bring history to younger generations in innovative and meaningful ways, so they have more fuel to power the future.
Made up of hundreds of history and civics organizations coming together to build something bigger and to use history to power the future Made By Us and JANM aims to inspire, inform, and empower change makers to shape the next 250 years of our country.
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JANM is currently in the planning stages for an exhibition, curated by Oliver S. Wang, a pop culture expert and professor at CSULB, that will examine and highlight Nikkei car culture.
We’re looking for people to share their home photos and especially home movies involving people’s relationship to their cars for loan to JANM or a potential donation to the permanent collection. These can be about people driving, cruising, and racing cars or even just family photos/movies shot in front of cars or taken during road trips. We would especially like to find images and movies from the 1930s through 1980s.
Please contact Kristen Hayashi, Director of Collections Management and Access, at collections@janm.org or 213.830.5712.
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Saturday, February 27
In this interactive workshop with cookbook author and designer, Azusa Oda, you will learn how to cook chirashi zushi (sushi rice topped with vegetables, egg, and fish) in celebration of Girl’s Day in Japan! Girl’s Day, also known as Doll’s Day or Hinamatsuri, is celebrated on March 3rd and often involves parties where people share this delicious and portable dish. You will be sent the ingredient list and necessary setup in advance so you can cook along during the program.
Tuesday, March 2
Nima Voices is an interview series where we uplift our Nima through brief, but enlightening, interviews! In the third episode, hear from Discover Nikkei contributor Tamiko Nimura as she is interviewed by our guest host, Japanese American youth activist Justin Kawaguchi.
Wednesday, March 10
Curious about JANM’s Virtual Visits? Wondering if a virtual visit will be appropriate for your students? The JANM Education Unit invites teachers and educators to join us for a peek into our virtual visit experience. Join us as we walk through our available virtual visits designed for students in grades 1-3, 4-6, and 7-12. Get a sense of what each program entails and how your students will be engaged. Afterwards, if you still have questions, JANM educators will be on hand until 5:00 to informally chat and answer any specific questions participants may have.
Saturday, April 24
The new graphic novel, We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration, presents an original vision of America’s past with disturbing links to the American present. Through the characters of Jim Akutsu, Hiroshi Kashiwagi, and Mitsuye Endo, the book weaves together an epic narrative of people who refused to submit to race-based imprisonment in American concentration camps without a fight.
Tuesday, April 27
¡Únase a nosotros para nuestro primer episodio en idioma español! Sepa sobre nuestro colaborador de Descubra a los Nikkei, Juan Alberto Matsumoto, mientras es entrevistado por nuestra anfitriona invitada, Mónica Kogiso. Alberto y Mónica son ambos nisei, originalmente de Escobar, Argentina. Ellos hablarán sobre las comunidades argentinas japonesas y los nikkei latinoamericanos en Japón.
[VIDEOS & ACTIVITIES]
If you missed our week of virtual, kid-friendly activities to celebrate the New Year, you can still watch the videos online and download the interactive, offline festivities for all ages to welcome the Year of the Ox with JANM.
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In the second part of this series, we will explore with JANM Curator, Emily Anderson, Ph.D, how Japanese American cultural holiday traditions, such as mochitsuki, or mochi making, have adapted over time. Get a glimpse of what items from our collection reflect these stories. We will also hear firsthand from several generations of Japanese American home cooks about their own family holiday recipes. Finally, audiences will learn how to cook the traditional first meal of the year, ozoni, with cookbook author and designer, Azusa Oda, in an easy cooking demo and tutorial.
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The second episode of Nima Voices featured Erik Matsunaga with guest host, award-winning author Naomi Hirahara. Erik talked about his family, projects to map historic Japanese American neighborhoods in Chicago, his @windycitynikkei Instagram account, and his other articles on Discover Nikkei.
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