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2022 Kokoro Craft Show

2022年10月30日

The Friends of the Japanese American National Museum invite you to the 14th annual Kokoro Craft Show! Fifty-six vendors will be selling hand-painted apparel, apparel for babies, kids, and pets, framed art, bronze sculptures, ceramics, food, jewelry, gifts, glass art, shibori, stationery, embroidered towels, totes, origami, and MORE! Entrance to this in-person event is free (does not include Museum admission...

Holiday Tales with Stanley Hayami

2021年12月18日 - 2021年12月19日

In this immersive experience, get transported back to the 1940s with actor Kurt Sanchez Kanazawa, the voice of Stanley Hayami in A Life in Pieces, as he reads aloud from the letters and diaries of Stanley. Diary entries and letters will be selected from his time during the winter holidays in the Heart Mountain concentration camp and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Please note there will be three similar readings...

JANM Digital Film Festival: Big Drum: Taiko in the United States Q&A

2020年07月24日

FREE Tune in for a 15th anniversary celebration of the film, Big Drum: Taiko in the United States, and conversation with curator Sojin Kim and featured performers Kenny Endo (Kenny Endo Taiko Ensemble), Kay Fukumoto (Maui Taiko), Teddy Yoshikami (Soh Daiko), PJ Hirabayashi (Artistic Director Emeritus, San Jose Taiko), and more! Featuring America’s pioneering taiko figures, this film documents the developmen...

JANM Digital Film Festival: "Big Drum: Taiko in the United States"

2020年07月17日

Fifteen years after its initial release as part of the groundbreaking exhibition at JANM, Big Drum: Taiko in the United States will be available online as part of the JANM Digital Film Festival! Featuring America’s pioneering taiko figures, this film documents the development of American taiko and includes interviews and footage of drum-making and performances that reflect the ongoing transformation and diversificati...

Contested Histories at History Colorado Center (Denver, CO)

2019年02月15日 - 2019年02月17日

TRAVELING DISPLAYHistory Colorado CenterDenver, CO10 a.m.–5 p.mFREE 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 aspect...

Contested Histories at NVC Hall (Seattle, WA)

2018年11月24日 - 2018年11月25日

TRAVELING DISPLAYNVC HallSeattle, WA10 a.m.–5 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 books to examine any aspect of the lives of the 120,000 inmates. In ...

Kaiju vs Heroes

2018年09月15日 - 2019年07月07日

With mighty fangs, menacing horns, and iridescent gold scales, the lizard monster Drazoran crushes an imaginary city while Captain Maxx, wearing a bright red suit, flies in to save the day. Drazoran and Captain Maxx are two of the monsters and heroes that emerged from the creative mind of Mark Nagata, a toy designer and fervent toy collector. At JANM, Drazoran and Captain Maxx join hundreds of dazzling vintage and co...

"Moving Day"

2017年08月01日 - 2017年08月11日

March 23 – August 11, 2017 Daily from sunset to midnight In conjunction with the exhibition Instructions to All Persons: Reflections on Executive Order 9066, JANM presents Moving Day, an outdoor public art installation. The work consists of a series of projections of the Civilian Exclusion Orders that were publicly posted during World War II to inform persons of Japanese ancestry of their impending forced removal...

"Moving Day"

2017年07月01日 - 2017年08月11日

March 23 – August 11, 2017 Daily from sunset to midnight In conjunction with the exhibition Instructions to All Persons: Reflections on Executive Order 9066, JANM presents Moving Day, an outdoor public art installation. The work consists of a series of projections of the Civilian Exclusion Orders that were publicly posted during World War II to inform persons of Japanese ancestry of their impending forced removal...

JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM CONDEMNS ALL CALLS FOR MUSLIM INCARCERATION CAMPS

2017年06月08日

Los Angeles, CA The Japanese American National Museum condemns recent and ongoing rhetoric calling for the mass incarceration of people of the Muslim faith. Citing the unlawful incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II as a precedent or justification for the unlawful targeting of Muslims, or any other group, demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of one of the most shameful chapters in United ...