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JANM’s Discover Nikkei Project Seeks Stories About Names for Nikkei Chronicles 13

2024年06月03日

LOS ANGELES, CA – Discover Nikkei, a web-based project of the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) that promotes connections and understanding among the global Japanese diaspora, announces the 13th edition of its Nikkei Chronicles special series, an annual, themed open call for writings. This year’s theme, Nikkei Names 2: Grace, Graça, Graciela, Megumi?, calls for stories, essays, and vignettes that explore t...

Media Coverage of the Japanese American Incarceration and its Lessons for the Trump Era

2017年05月25日

FREE Join Los Angeles Times publisher Davan Maharaj, author and journalist Richard Reeves, author and former Rafu Shimpo editor Naomi Hirahara, and others for a lecture and roundtable discussion on the media’s mistakes during the public hysteria generated by the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 and the lessons learned for our times. Space is limited. This program is free, but RSVPs are recommended using...

East West Players Presents a Writers Gallery Reading of "Hannah and the Dread Gazebo" by Jiehae Park

2013年10月17日

FREE EVENT EWP and JANM proudly present the Writers Gallery reading of HANNAH AND THE DREAD GAZEBO by Jiehae Park directed by Jennifer Chang Inside the FedEx box are two things: a 100% bona-fide-heart’s-desire-level wish and a suicide note. Hannah tracks the package back to Seoul, where her grandmother recently jumped from the roof of her retirement home onto the wrong side of the Demilitarized Zone. The...

"Queer Compulsions: Race, Nation, and Sexuality in the Affairs of Yone Noguchi" by Dr. Amy Sueyoshi

2013年01月19日

Join Dr. Amy Sueyoshi for a reading and discussion of her book, Queer Compulsions: Race, Nation, and Sexuality in the Affairs of Yone Noguchi. A Q&A and book signing will follow the program. Click here to read an interview with Dr. Sueyoshi about Queer Compulsions. In September 1897 Yone Noguchi (1875–1947) contemplated crafting a poem to his new love, western writer Charles Warren Stoddard. Recently arrived in...

Little Tokyo Then & Now: Neighborhood Change Through The Lens of Photography Workshop

2010年02月06日

PLEASE NOTE: THIS CLASS HAS BEEN CANCELED. Professor Paul Ong will teach participants how to document aspects of neighborhood change by using historic and contemporary photos they take themselves. $9 members; $14 for non-members. Please note that this workshop requires access to a digital camera.

Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: New Year's Sumi-e (Year of the Horse)

2002年01月26日

Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: New Year's Sumi-e (Year of the Horse)

JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM ONLY LOS ANGELES-BASED MUSEUM TO RECEIVE INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM & LIBRARY SERVICE GRANT

2000年01月01日

LOS ANGELES.—The Japanese American National Museum was the only Los Angeles-based museum to receive a General Operating Support grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and one of only 177 museums to earn this support from over 800 applications, the IMLS announced. The IMLS is a federal agency that supports the nation’s 15,000 museums and 112,000 libraries nationally. Its General Operating Su...

"Kenjiro Nomura: An Artist's View of the Japanese American Internment" exhibition opens October 4, 1997

1997年09月25日

The Japanese American National Museum opens a new exhibit, Saturday, October 4, 1997. Kenjiro Nomura: An Artist’s View of the Japanese American Internment highlights the images created by artist Kenjiro Nomura while he was incarcerated in the Minidoka concentration camp in Hunt, Idaho. Already an established and prolific artist when he and his family were forcibly removed from their home in Seattle and placed in Mi...

The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa: Contours in the Air - Events

Programs are free for museum members and included with admission for visitors, unless otherwise noted. To see a complete listing of JANM’s upcoming programs, check out our Events Calendar.

Japan after Perry: Views of Yokohama and Meiji Japan - Events

Programs are free for museum members and included with admission for visitors, unless otherwise noted. To see a complete listing of JANM’s upcoming programs, check out our Events Calendar.