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2022年04月30日(土)

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30周年アニバーサリー・ベネフィット


JANM30周年記念ベネフィットにご参加くださり、まことにありがとうございます。ボードメンバー、職員、ボランティア一同、スポンサーの皆様と、当館初のハイブリッドなファンドレイジングイベント成功のためにお力をお貸しくださった皆様に感謝します。皆様からの寛大なご支援と当館のミッションへの信頼は当館にとって大きな意味を持つものです。皆様の寛大さとJANMへの揺るぎないコミットメントで、私たちをご支援くださり心から感謝申し上げます。

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30th Anniversary Benefit

30th Anniversary Benefit

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ベネフィットのプログラム:

  • musical performance by Nobuko Miyomoto and Alex Smith created by Derek Nakamoto
  • Masters of Ceremonies: Erin Aoyama, Japanese American Memoryscape Project Co-Director and Frank Buckley, Co-Anchor, KTLA 5 Morning News, Los Angeles
  • National Anthem performed by Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja
  • Welcome message by the Honorable Norman Y. Mineta, Chair, JANM Board of Trustees
  • Ann Burroughs, JANM President and CEO
  • The Honorable Koji Tomita, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to the United States of America
  • Kazuo “Kaz” Koshi, Managing Executive Officer – MUFG Bank, Ltd., Chairman of the Board – MUFG Americas Holding Corporation and MUFG Union Bank, N.A.
  • Year in Review
  • In Memoriam
  • Bid for Education with Jennifer Hirano, daughter of Irene Hirano Inouye (JANM Founding President and CEO)
  • Volunteer and Legacy Remarks by Masako Koga Murakami, first JANM volunteer, and Cole Kawana, Japanese American Stories Founder and President, Co-Presenter of The Interactive StoryFile of Lawson Iichiro Sakai
  • 30 Changemakers Under 30—We will recognize 30 young people that are making extraordinary contributions to advance JANM’s mission through the arts, business, culture, education, politics, sports, technology, and more.
  • Announcement of 2022 Lexus Opportunity Drawing winner by Tracey Doi, Chief Financial Officer, Toyota Motor North America

 

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Erin Aoyama
     

ERIN AOYAMA is a PhD candidate in American Studies at Brown University, co-director of the Japanese American Memoryscape Project, and JANM Curatorial Assistant. With research interests rooted in Asian American studies, 20th century American history, relational ethnic studies, and public history, her work explores the possibilities of justice-informed historical storytelling.

 

 

headshot of Frank Buckley
     

FRANK BUCKLEY anchors KTLA’s signature broadcast, Los Angeles’s toprated KTLA 5 Morning News, every Monday through Friday. He also hosts Frank Buckley Interviews on weekend nights on KTLA 5, also available as a podcast. He has received numerous awards including Emmys, Golden Mike Awards from the Radio and Television News Association, Associated Press Television Radio Association Awards, the national Americanism in News Media Award, and awards from the Los Angeles Press Club. Buckley donates his time to community organizations and has served on the boards of JDRF (formerly known as the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation), and the Los Angeles chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association. He is a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the U.S.-Japan Council, and served on the Japanese American Leadership Delegation to Japan in 2006. He has been honored as a T1D Champion by JDRF, and he is the recipient of a Leadership Award from the USC Asian Pacific Alumni Association.

 

photo of Cole Kawana standing behind Lawson Sakai (seated in a chair), both are in front of a green screen with cameras in the background
     

COLE YUJIRO KAWANA is the founder and president of Japanese American Stories, a nonprofit that develops artificial intelligence avatars to help preserve and share the oral histories of Japanese Americans who lived through World War II. In sixth grade, he conducted and filmed an oral history with his great uncle, Arthur Ichiro Murakami, an American survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. It was on display at JANM and archived at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. He is the co-presenter of The Interactive StoryFile of Lawson Iichiro Sakai which is currently on display at JANM.

 

photo of Nobuko Miyamoto in front of a grey background
     

NOBUKO MIYAMOTO is a singer, songwriter, and theater artist. She found her own voice as an activist and troubadour in the 1970s Asian American movement when she created the seminal album A Grain of Sand with Chris Iijima and founded Great Leap, which produces works for the stage, music videos, and original obon songs and dances. Her four decades as a community artist is chronicled in her 2021 memoir, Not Yo’ Butterfly and Smithsonian Folkways album 120,000 Stories.

 

 

headshot of Masako Koga Murakami
     

MASAKO IWAWAKI KOGA MURAKAMI is JANM’s first volunteer. Her family was incarcerated at the Gila River and Tule Lake concentration camps during World War II. A graduate of UC Berkeley with a degree in Biostatistics, she worked for the Tumor Board at UC San Francisco and was the Controller for Alumont Furniture Manufacturing. She married Fred Koga in 1956 and raised their three children, Mathew, Warren, and Ellen, in Monterey Park. Fred passed away in 1979.

Masako began volunteering with JANM in 1986. She gathered artifacts from the Issei and Nisei and advanced fundraising efforts by traveling throughout California, to camp reunions, and exhibitions in Washington D.C. and Ellis Island. A member of JANM’s first President’s Volunteer Council, she was the first recipient of the Miki Tanimura Outstanding Volunteer of the Year award. She met Richard Murakami at JANM and they married in 1997. Masako’s three grandchildren are Kristin Koga, and Cole and Brooke Kawana.

 

headshot of Derek Nakamoto
     

DEREK NAKAMOTO is the producer and curator of “Ichigo Ichie,” the musical performance with Nobuko Miyomoto and Alex Smith. From string arrangements for Grammy-winning artists and production credits to full orchestra scores, Derek forges textures and harmonies from different cultures and eras into a unique piece that is sure to move the audience.

 

 

 

photo of Alex Smith playing the drums
     

ALEX SMITH is a producer, composer, drummer and percussionist, bassist, recording engineer, and private instructor. He graduated in 2020 from UCLA with an undergraduate degree in Ethnomusicology where he studied with Grammy-winning composer Terence Blanchard and the Latin-Jazz master Arturo O’Farrill.

 

 

headshot of Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja
     

MALEA EMMA TJANDRAWIDJAJA is an actor and singer who has starred in the film After Yang, Disney Channel’s Raven’s Home, and Coop and Cami Ask the World. She went viral after singing the American national anthem at a Los Angeles Galaxy soccer game in 2018. Since then, she has been invited to sing all over the country at big events and major sport league games.