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From JA to Shohei: Manzanar Baseball Project

2024年12月07日

A lively panel discussion and video screening on Japanese American baseball past and present. During the 1940s, baseball was the national pastime of the US, including in America’s World War II concentration camps. Japanese Americans created leagues in all ten camps and the games drew huge crowds, with spectators often standing and sitting on bare dirt under the blazing sun. Baseball was a way for Japanese Americans t...

JANM Members Only: Coffee and Community

2024年10月26日

Enjoy great coffee and be in-the-know of the big changes coming to JANM.Find out more about the major renovation of JANM’s Pavilion that will start in early 2025 and JANM on the Go, a series of programs and events that will engage communities in Los Angeles’s Little Tokyo and beyond. The morning will also include insights into the design and development of our new core exhibition and self-guided or docent-led tours o...

Community Day of Remembrance—Is It 1942 Again? Overcoming Our Fears and Upholding Constitutional Rights for All

2016年02月20日

PAY WHAT YOU WISH On February 19, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, making it possible for the U.S. military to forcibly remove and incarcerate 120,000 Japanese Americans solely on the basis of race. Each year, communities across the country hold Day of Remembrance programs to recall this shameful chapter in U.S. history and honor the courage and perseverance of the Japanese A...

"A Divided Community: 3 Personal Stories of Resistance" by Momo Yashima

2012年07月21日

This documentary tells the story of Yosh Kuromiya, Frank Emi, and Mits Koshiyama, who challenged the United States government’s decision to draft Japanese Americans while they and their families were being held in America’s concentration camps. A panel discussion with Professor Emeritus Art Hansen, Attorney Deborah Lim (author of The Lim Report), Yosh Kuromiya, and Momo Yashima will follow the screening. The moderato...

Film Screening: "Calling Tokyo: Japanese American Radio Broadcasters of World War II"

2010年07月10日

Calling Tokyo tells the story of Japanese Americans who participated in the United States and Britain's World War II broadcast campaign to influence the hearts and minds of people in Japan. Some of the radio broadcasters will share their experiences after the screening. This is a story of discovery by a son, (Gary Ono) who learned about what his father did during the war, shortly after the signing of the 1988 Civ...

Summer Film Festival: "Bento to Mixed Plate: Politics of Plate Lunch"

2009年07月02日 - 2009年07月12日

To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center, the National Museum will continuously screen Bento to Mixed Plate: Politics of Plate Lunch. Politics of Plate Lunch is a penetrating yet tender look beneath the “island paradise” stereotype to explore the inter-ethnic and generational complexities of contemporary Hawai‘i. 20 min. This special showing will be screened at the Tera...

Fresh Words and Action: "The Abduction of Lady Wen Chi"

2003年05月22日

Performing Arts Series Held Every Fourth Thursday Text, lyrics and music by Mimi Seton; additional music by James Peterson The Abduction of Lady Wen Chi is Mimi Seton's imaginative re-working of a Chinese tale of an upper-class girl, educated in Confucianism, but still unworldly, who is violently kidnapped by H'siung Nu nomads at the end of the Han Dynasty. Her journey through 15 years in the desert—from naive gi...

An Afternoon of Nagauta Shamisen Music and Dance

2001年05月19日

Featuring: Lillian Nakano, Fujima Ryusei, Tom Kurai and the Sanmi Ensemble (National Museum's shamisen class) The National Museum presents the eighth in a series of shamisen performances by California Arts Council recipients and National Museum resident artist Lillian Nakano. This program is made possible through funding from the California Arts Council. Free with National Museum admission.

The Life and Work of George Hoshida: A Japanese American’s Journey—Lordsburg

1942 Hoshida was sent from Hawai‘i to the mainland by ship in 1942. First he traveled to Fort Sam Houston in Texas where he was encarcerated for a short period of time. From Fort Sam Houston he was sent by train to Lordsburg, New Mexico, a Justice Department camp. The Justice Department camps were made up of men who were labeled suspicious simply because of their leadership in the community. Hoshida was considered...

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