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Conversation on Tule Lake Stockade Diary by Tatsuo Ryusei Inouye

2021年12月11日

FREE RSVP to attend in person RSVP to attend virtually Join Nancy Kyoko Oda, Hiroshi Shimizu, Masumi Izumi, Duncan Williams, and David Yoo in a conversation moderated by Karen Umemoto around this groundbreaking new book, Tule Lake Stockade Diary. The diary, originally written in Japanese and translated for the first time into English, tells Tatsuo Ryusei Inouye’s story of struggle and resilience ...

Japanese Cooking for Beginners with Azusa Oda: Gyoza

2021年11月06日

$25 General Admission / $20 Members Making gyoza (Japanese dumplings) can be a fun group activity or a solo meditative practice. In this interactive virtual workshop, learn the basics with cookbook author and designer, Azusa Oda, and make this perennial favorite a part of your cooking repertoire. You will be sent the ingredient list and necessary setup in advance so you can cook along from your own kitchen. Azu...

The Big Games in Little Tokyo

2021年07月11日

FREE Come together to celebrate the strength and history of Japanese American athletics! Join in a day of performances, exhibitions, demonstrations, and activities to wish all the athletes competing this year luck and safety and learn about the Olympic games in Little Tokyo past and present. This program is presented in partnership with the Japanese American National Museum (JANM), the Japanese American Cultura...

We Hereby Refuse with Frank Abe, Tamiko Nimura, and Ross Ishikawa

2021年06月26日

$10 general / FREE for members The new graphic novel, We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration, presents an original vision of America’s past with disturbing links to the American present. Through the distinct but interconnected stories of Jim Akutsu, Hiroshi Kashiwagi, and Mitsuye Endo, three Japanese Americans who resisted imprisonment in American concentration camps during WWI...

Members Only Meet-and-Greet with Frank Abe, Tamiko Nimura, and Ross Ishikawa

2021年06月26日

All members are invited to this exclusive conversation and Q&A with the creators behind We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration. Frank Abe wrote and directed the PBS film on the largest organized resistance to incarceration, Conscience and the Constitution. He won an American Book Award for JOHN OKADA: The Life & Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy and is co-editing a new a...

One Year Later: Gender & Anti-Asian Violence

2021年06月03日

In May 2020, JANM hosted a program in response to the surge of prominent Anti-Asian attacks where we reflected on violence in our community’s past and future. Now, almost a year later, with the COVID-19 pandemic having changed how we all move through the world, the renewed visibility of hate crimes in our community is still a concern and the mass shooting in Atlanta has highlighted the vulnerability especial...

Haunted Little Tokyo: Virtual Ghost Tour

2020年10月24日

$10 Go on a journey through Little Tokyo’s haunted past and present with a special, virtual guided tour of historical buildings, ghostly tales, and paranormal experiences in this over 100-year-old historic and cultural neighborhood. Join Little Tokyo Historical Society ghost reporter, Bill Watanabe, as he walks us through four unique spots with reported paranormal activity in the neighborhood and is joined by eyew...

JANM RECEIVES GRANT AWARD FROM CALIFORNIA HUMANITIES

2020年04月30日

Los Angeles, CA – California Humanities has recently announced the March Humanities For All Project Grant awards. The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) has been awarded $20,000 for its project entitled Wakaji Matsumoto: An Artist in Two Worlds, Los Angeles and Hiroshima, 1917-1944. Humanities For All Project Grant is a competitive grant program of California Humanities which supports locally-developed proje...

Textured Lives: Japanese Immigrant Clothing from the Plantations of Hawai`i - JANM Store

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Only the Oaks Remain: The Story of Tuna Canyon Detention Station - Press

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