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KCRW Summer Nights ft. DJs Travis Holcombe & SiLVA

2023年07月15日

Join JANM, KCRW, and The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA for an evening of music featuring KCRW DJs SiLVA and Travis Holcombe, food trucks, a beer garden, and free after-hours access to both museums. Come dance with us!

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...

JANM RECEIVES TWO JAPANESE AMERICAN CONFINEMENT SITES GRANTS

2020年05月01日

Los Angeles, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) has received over $530,000 in grants from the Department of Interior, National Park Service (NPS) through the Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) grant program. The funds will support two projects - the development of an experiential exhibition that will explore the important role that religious institutions and individuals played for Japanese Amer...

Film Screening and Q&A—"Sophie and the Rising Sun"

2019年11月16日

Set in the autumn of 1941 in Salty Creek, a fishing village in South Carolina, this film tells the dramatic story of interracial lovers swept up in the tides of history. As World War II rages, a wounded stranger, Mr. Ohta, appears in town under mysterious circumstances. Sophie, a native of Salty Creek, quickly becomes transfixed by Mr. Ohta and a forbidden courtship blossoms. When Pearl Harbor is bombed, a sur...

Contested Histories at Seabrook Educational and Cultural Center (Bridgeton, NJ)

2019年07月20日 - 2019年07月21日

TRAVELING DISPLAYSeabrook Educational and Cultural CenterBridgeton, NJSaturday: 10 a.m.–4 p.m.Sunday: 12 p.m.–3 p.m. Allen Hendershott Eaton’s historic 1952 book, Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps, explored art and craft objects created by persons of Japanese descent while wrongfully incarcerated in the World War II American concentration camps. It was one of the first bo...

Contested Histories at Midwest Buddhist Temple (Chicago, IL)

2019年05月17日

TRAVELING DISPLAYMidwest Buddhist TempleChicago, IL10:45 a.m.–5 p.m.FREE and open to the public Allen Hendershott Eaton’s historic 1952 book, Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps, explored art and craft objects created by persons of Japanese descent while wrongfully incarcerated in the World War II American concentration camps. It was one of the first books to examine any as...

ZÓCALO—Is the Digital Age Making Museums Obsolete?

2019年02月28日

A Zócalo/Natural History Museum of Los Angeles Event at JANM’s National Center for the Preservation of Democracy Moderated by Gregory Rodriguez, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, Zócalo Public Square Before the digital age, museums were places where people went to acquire knowledge. But now most of the information and images contained in museums are available on your smartphone. So how can ...

Jewelry Workshop—Continuing to Work with "Washi"

2018年01月27日 - 2018年01月28日

Saturday–Sunday, January 27–28 11 a.m.–4 p.m. (both days) Designed for students who have completed one of our introductory washi classes, this two-day workshop will continue examining the unique properties of washi paper and various methods of working with it to create jewelry. Explore the challenges of applying washi onto various wooden beads, and experience the excitement of integrating commercial ...

PLAY READING FOR 'ALL THAT REMAINS' SET FOR NATIONAL MUSEUM ON JUNE 4

2011年06月01日

A reading of Mona Z. Smith’s play "All That Remains", which tells the tale of a young Japanese American man uncovering the story of his late father, who fought as a member of the famed all-Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team during World War II, will be presented at the Japanese American National Museum on Saturday, June 4, beginning at 2 p.m. The play is set in October of 1969 in the Vosges forest on the French-Ge...

Film Screening & Panel Discussion: Beate Sirota Gordon: Women's Rights and the Constitution of Japan

2010年05月16日

Beate Sirota Gordon The Visionary Leader Who Introduced Women’s Rights to Japan To Speak about her Fight for Equal Rights Beate Sirota Gordon, who worked under General Douglas MacArthur to help draft Japan’s Constitution, will discuss her own personal experiences and her advocacy for equal rights for Japanese women. Come and hear her first and only appearance in Los Angeles. 11 AM –12:30 PM Film Screening: Sirota...