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Celebrating Little Tokyo at 140 Years

2024年08月10日 - 2025年01月05日

Celebrate Little Tokyo’s 140th anniversary with JANM and other Little Tokyo community organizations with the new pop-up exhibit, Celebrating Little Tokyo at 140 Years, now on view in JANM’s Manabi and Sumi Hirasaki National Resource Center through January 5, 2025.The display explores the anniversary’s theme, “Celebrating Our Legacy. Persevering for Our Future.” Highlights include artifacts and items from Koharu resta...

Defining Courage at the Ron Robinson Theater (Little Rock, AR)

2024年06月07日

ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY! Friday, June 7, 2024 • 4:30 p.m. Ron Robinson Theater Little Rock, AR Defining Courage is a gripping and emotional journey into the legacy of Nisei veterans, a segregated combat team of Japanese American soldiers that fought during World War II and that remains the most highly decorated unit in US Army history. Drawing upon decades of filmmaking and investigative journalism...

Celebrate Summer with JANM’s Natsumatsuri Family Festival

2024年06月07日

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will celebrate summer with its free Natsumatsuri Family Festival on Saturday, August 10, 2024 from 11 a.m.–5 p.m. The Museum’s annual festival features cultural performances, crafts, and activities for families and kids of all ages. Tickets are free and available at janm.org/events. Advance reservations are recommended. A full schedule of events will be p...

Film Screening and Discussion—"Hidden Histories: The Story and Legacy of Japanese American WWII Incarceration"

2017年09月30日

Hidden Histories is a touring program of five short narrative films about the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. Each film tells a personal story that dramatizes a different aspect of this history. Hidden Histories commemorates an important chapter in American history at the same time that it serves as a cautionary tale; although the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians d...

“DODGERS: BROTHERHOOD OF THE GAME” OPENS MARCH 29 AT JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM

2014年03月20日

Dodgers: Brotherhood of the Game, a new exhibition exploring the team’s storied past through four players and a Hall of Fame manager, will open at the Japanese American National Museum on Saturday, March 29. Jackie Robinson, Fernando Valenzuela, Chan Ho Park, Hideo Nomo, and Tommy Lasorda—each of whom made history in his own right—will be prominently featured, as will owners Branch Rickey, Walter O’Malley, and Pete...

The Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment Presents: The Legacy Series

2011年03月03日

Please note that this event has been canceled. An evening of candid conversations with the most successful and influential leaders in the entertainment industry, these seminars are an opportunity to gain first-hand insights and perspectives in a master class setting reminiscent of Bravo’s “Inside the Actors Studio.” Keep checking back for program information! Presented in partnership with the Coalition of As...

The Pavilion: Home, Community, History— Celebrating Ten Years of Building a Legacy

2009年04月25日

The Japanese American National Museum announced its 2009 program theme celebrating the opening of its Pavilion with year-long slate of public programs and special events that will review the work by the National Museum in the last decade. The first of these themed-programs is the National Museum’s 2009 Annual Gala Dinner, "The Pavilion: Home, Community, History—Celebrating Ten Years of Building a Legacy", which wil...

Ikebana Presentation with the Sogetsu School of Ikebana, Los Angeles Chapter

2004年04月24日

Isamu Noguchi was a friend and colleague of Sofu Teshigahara, founder of the Sogetsu Ikebana School. In this program, students from the Los Angeles-based school will give a demonstration and speak about the art of flower arranging. Members of the school will also create various arrangements for display at the National Museum throughout the run of the show.

"From Our Side Of The Fence" Presents Writings Of Former World War II Camp Inmates At Reading At Japanese American National Museum Sept. 29

2001年09月29日

Although comparisons have recently been made between the September 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. and the consequences of Pearl Harbor, many voices from Japanese and Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during World War II have yet to be heard on the subject. Eleven first-person accounts of what it was like to live in a World War II U.S. concentration camp where thousands of Americans of Japanese ancestry wer...

Cold Tofu Improv: More Soy of Sex

1997年08月28日

Cold Tofu looks at love & relationships, the expanded version! This talented, energetic, multicultural comedy improv group has an amazing assortment of entertainment techniques that will keep you laughing all night. Free. Reservations suggested. Limited seating.