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Members Only Conversation: New Year’s Food!

2022年01月02日

FREE for members Get an exclusive, virtual behind the scenes tour of a Little Tokyo restaurant during the busiest holiday of the year! Only for members! More details to come. RSVPs are required using the link below or by contacting memberevents@janm.org or 213.830.5646 by Tuesday, December 28. RSVP NOW This event is presented in conjunction with the 2022 Oshogatsu Festival.

Members Only Meet-and-Greet with Susan H. Kamei

2021年09月25日

FREE for JANM & JACL Members All members are invited to this exclusive virtual conversation with the author and scholar behind When Can We Go Back to America?: Voices of Japanese American Incarceration during WWII, Susan H. Kamei. The daughter and granddaughter of incarcerees, Susan H. Kamei volunteered in the redress campaign and served as National Deputy Legal Counsel for the JACL Legislative Education Commit...

Discover Nikkei’s Nima Voices: Episode 2—Erik Matsunaga

2020年12月15日

Discover Nikkei is JANM’s international community-based web project sharing stories and the experiences of Nikkei around the world. “Nima” are members of the Discover Nikkei online community. Hailing from all around the world, they each bring unique experiences and perspectives to the site’s rich archive of stories. “Nima Voices” is an interview series where we uplift our Nima through brief, but enlightening,...

Japanese American in New York: Nikkei Trans-regional Dialogue

2020年12月05日

Telling the lesser-known history of Nikkei on the East Coast—a community vastly different from West Coast Japanese Americans—author-historian, consultant, and attorney Daniel H. Inouye explores the unique stories of a divided community of Japanese New Yorkers before World War II. Through a wealth of primary sources, including oral histories, memoirs, newspapers, government documents, photographs, and more, h...

VIRTUAL TALK: Contested Histories on the Road: Part II

2020年05月23日

Experience more of the behind the scenes of traveling the Contested Histories: Art and Artifacts from the Allen Hendershott Eaton Collection special display, from program developer and curator Clement Hanami in this live presentation and Q&A. He will be joined by Nancy Ukai, Project Director of 50 Objects/Stories and a writer and researcher who helped lead the social media protest to stop the Rago auction of the ...

Author Discussion – "Thirty Minutes Over Oregon: A Japanese Pilot’s World War II Story" by Marc Nobleman

2020年02月29日

Hiroshima. Dresden. London. Brookings? Americans know the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, as one of the most infamous events of World War II. However, few on either side know that Japan also bombed mainland America—twice. Navy pilot Nobuo Fujita launched a seaplane off a submarine—via catapult—and hit the woods outside the town of Brookings, Oregon. No one was killed or even hurt, but all involved wer...

Summer Respite: Tea & Letter Writing to the Future

2019年08月22日

FREE Do you miss the art of letter writing? Would you like to have the opportunity to write a letter to the future of Little Tokyo or to a future stakeholder of this community? Gather with us in a relaxed atmosphere on JANM Plaza each Thursday of August to share tea, conversation, and write letters—with plenty of prompts provided by traci kato-kiriyama, Little Tokyo +LAB Artist-in-Residence. Artist...

Summer Respite: Tea & Letter Writing to the Future

2019年08月15日

FREE Do you miss the art of letter writing? Would you like to have the opportunity to write a letter to the future of Little Tokyo or to a future stakeholder of this community? Gather with us in a relaxed atmosphere on JANM Plaza each Thursday of August to share tea, conversation, and write letters—with plenty of prompts provided by traci kato-kiriyama, Little Tokyo +LAB Artist-in-Residence. Artist...

Summer Respite: Tea & Letter Writing to the Future

2019年08月08日

FREE Do you miss the art of letter writing? Would you like to have the opportunity to write a letter to the future of Little Tokyo or to a future stakeholder of this community? Gather with us in a relaxed atmosphere on JANM Plaza each Thursday of August to share tea, conversation, and write letters—with plenty of prompts provided by traci kato-kiriyama, Little Tokyo +LAB Artist-in-Residence. Artist...

Summer Respite: Tea & Letter Writing to the Future

2019年08月01日

FREE Do you miss the art of letter writing? Would you like to have the opportunity to write a letter to the future of Little Tokyo or to a future stakeholder of this community? Gather with us in a relaxed atmosphere on JANM Plaza each Thursday of August to share tea, conversation, and write letters—with plenty of prompts provided by traci kato-kiriyama, Little Tokyo +LAB Artist-in-Residence. Artist...