Press Releases
1998-08-31
Picture Bride
1998-07-07
Hawai`i Pidgin Voices : Talking da Kine In Poetry And Fiction
1998-03-25
Come Join The Pupu Party!
1998-03-05
From Bento To Mixed Plate - March Public Programs
1997-10-28
From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai`i
From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i
March 14, 1998 - January 3, 1999
This exhibition traces the evolution of Japanese American identity in multicultural Hawai'i as seen through the eyes of the first generation to the present.
Americans of Japanese ancestry (AJAs) share their story through the use of personal artifacts, family photographs, and first-person accounts. Told from an AJA perspective the uniqueness of the Island culture is evident and is truely a story involving all of Hawai'i's people. This exhibit is funded in part by The Rockefeller Foundation and The Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership.
Past Events
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Opening of the exhibition From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i at the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, JapanOpening of the exhibition From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i at the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan In conjunction with the exhibition From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i |
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Closing of the traveling exhibition From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i at the National Museum of EthnologyIn conjunction with the exhibition From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i |
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Opening of the exhibition, From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural HawaiâiOpening of the exhibition, From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawaiâi In conjunction with the exhibition From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i |
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Closing of the exhibition, From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural HawaiâiClosing of the exhibition, From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawaiâi In conjunction with the exhibition From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i |
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Opening of the exhibition, From Bento Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestrat the Niigata Prefectural Museum of History in Nagaoka, Japan In conjunction with the exhibition From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i |
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Closing of the exhibition From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural HawaiâiClosing of the exhibition From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawaiâi In conjunction with the exhibition From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i |
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Membersâ Reception and International Nikkei Research Project Book Signing in HonJoin the National Museumâs Hawaiâi Advisory Council for a 10th Anniversary Membersâ Reception in Honolulu, Hawaiâi. The reception will also feature an update on the international travel and âhomecomingâ? of the exhibition From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawaiâi, plans for Bento reunion activities on Maui in February 2004 when the exhibition ends its run at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center, and a book signing of reference publications developed through the International Nikkei Research Project by Dr. Akemi Kikumura-Yano, the National Museumâs vice president of programs. For more information on the Hawaiâi program, please contact René Tomita at 808.946.5417 or Florence Ochi at 213.830.5652. In conjunction with the exhibition From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i |
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Pre-opening reception and tour of From Bento to Mixed PlateNational Museum members are invited to attend a pre-opening reception and tour of From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese American Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai`i at the Maui Arts and Cultural Center in Kahului, Maui. For more information, please contact René Tomita in the National Museum's Honolulu office at 808.946.5417 or via email at rtomia@janm.org. In conjunction with the exhibition From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i |
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