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Ireichō Tour Schedule to Former Confinement Sites

2025年01月03日

FEBRUARY 18 – 21, 2025 — WASHINGTON DC — presented in conjunction with the National Archives and Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History for Day of RemembranceAPRIL 26 – 27, 2025 — MANZANAR (CA) — presented in conjunction with the Manzanar pilgrimageApr. 26 Manzanar Cemetery Ireitō for interfaith ceremonyApr. 26 Manzanar National Historic Site Visitor Center for stampingApr. 27 Manzanar National Historic Si...

2024 Holiday Member Appreciation Days

2024年11月29日 - 2024年12月01日

Come shop at the JANM Store during Member Appreciation Days and receive a 20% discount on qualified store purchases as an appreciation of thanks for all of your support and patronage!Not a current JANM Member? Join Now Order OnlineJANM will honor the 20% discount for online orders placed by current JANM Members at janmstore.com from November 29 – December 1, 2024. To receive the special discount, enter the code MADN...

Beauty from Hardship

2024年09月14日

Beauty from Hardship: Storytelling, Art, and Japanese American Resilience Then and NowDiscover how literature, music, dance, and the visual arts capture and make the richness and resilience of the Japanese American community possible with Professor erin Khuê Ninh, Professor Diane C. Fujino, Professor Kim Yasuda, and authors Constance Hays Matsumoto and Kent Matsumoto. Revolving around the themes of hardship and beau...

Nikkei Uncovered IV: a poetry reading

2024年08月22日

Join us for our fourth annual virtual poetry reading with a powerful lineup of poets previously featured in Discover Nikkei’s Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column, hosted by traci kato-kiriyama, author of Navigating With(out) Instruments. Featured poets are Christine Kitano, Mia Ayumi Malhotra and Matthew Mejia.

11th Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest Awards Ceremony

2024年06月01日

All of the winning and honorable mention stories will be available on Discover Nikkei. READ HERE Marvel at the amazing ways creative writers and actors expand the fictional boundaries of the Japanese American experience at the 11th Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest Awards Ceremony!2024 marks the 140th anniversary of Little Tokyo, and this year’s event will be a vibrant celebration, its history and culture by t...

Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement at CAAMFest in San Francisco

2024年05月11日

Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement will have its Bay Area premiere at CAAMFest in San Francisco on May 11, 2024. Expected guests in attendance: Co-Director Quyên Nguyen-Le, Co-Director/Producer Tadashi Nakamura, subject Nobuko Miyamoto, and composer Derek Nakamoto. Experience this new sweeping documentary from JANM’s Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center and PBS SoCal that follows the life of visionary artist-activis...

hapa.me at Morikami Museum (Delray Beach, FL)

2024年05月04日 - 2024年08月24日

TRAVELING EXHIBITIONMorikami Museum and Japanese GardenDelray Beach, FL Web: morikami.orgPhone: 561.233.1325 Artist Kip Fulbeck created The Hapa Project in 2001, traveling the country to photograph over 1,200 volunteers who identified as Hapa. The Hapa Project’s goal was to promote awareness and recognition of the millions of Hapas in the United States; to give voice to multiracial people and other previously ignored...

National Trust for Historic Preservation Names Little Tokyo to Endangered List

2024年05月01日

LOS ANGELES, CA, May 1, 2024 – Today the National Trust for Historic Preservation announces that the historic Little Tokyo district in downtown Los Angeles is on the Trust’s annual list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. Established in 1884, Little Tokyo has endured over a century of adversities, including the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, demolition and con...

J. T. Sata: Immigrant Modernist

2024年03月15日 - 2024年09月15日

James Tadanao Sata (1896–1975) created some of the most adventurous photographs made in America in the 1920s and ’30s. Abstract spheres and triangles, complex arrangements of figures and shadows, and spaces rich with deep and delicate tones emphasized geometric forms and conveyed newness, modernity, and irony.Sata came to the United States in 1918. Despite his good education and the elevated social status of his samu...

The Adventures of Sikh Captain America

2014年02月08日

FREE! In June 2013, cartoonist Vishavjit Singh dressed up as Sikh Captain America and was photographed around New York City. He will share the reactions—both positive and negative—that he received on his adventure, followed by a cartoon workshop.