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The Japanese American National Museum Receives $503,877 from Two Japanese American Confinement Sites Grants

2022年12月02日

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) has received $327,974 for Preserving America’s Community Treasures (PACT): The Toyo Miyatake Collection and $175,903 for Eating Together: Food in Japanese America, two grants from the Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) Grant Program. The $327,974 JACS grant for Preserving America’s Community Treasures (PACT): The Toyo Miyatake Collection will ...

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.

What Does It Mean to Be Nikkei in 2021?

2021年02月06日

FREE In 2018, The Nippon Foundation, in collaboration with JANM, launched the Global Nikkei Young Adult Research Project to examine how young adult Nikkei around the world feel about and express their Japanese heritage. Analyzing the data from a worldwide survey and global regional focus groups, the project sought to obtain a deeper understanding of their similarities and differences, as well as their cel...

PREMIERE and Q&A—ATOMIC CAFE: The Noisiest Corner in J-Town

2020年09月27日

FREE In the late 1970s, when L.A.’s punk rock scene was exploding, an unlikely family-owned restaurant in Little Tokyo started by Japanese Americans returning from America’s WWII concentration camps became one of its most popular hang-outs. That’s when Sansei “Atomic Nancy” with her “take-no-prisoners” punk make-up and demeanor took the café over from her parents and cranked up the jukebox. Infamous for its eclec...

JANM Digital Film Festival Q&A: Words, Weavings & Songs

2020年09月18日

FREE Join us for a Q&A with the grandchildren of Wakako Yamauchi, Momo Nagano, and Mary Nomura, the subjects of Words, Weavings & Songs (2002). Alyctra Matsushita, Hana van der Steur, and Erin Nomura Marquez will talk about their grandmothers and their impacts on the Japanese American community and beyond. They will also be joined by Mary Kageyama Nomura, the Songbird of Manzanar herself, in a special appearan...

Passing the Legacy: Hiroshima and Nagasaki

2019年11月09日

In conjunction with the opening of Under the Mushroom Cloud: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Atomic Bomb, join us for a special presentation by Takuo Takigawa, Director of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and testimonies followed by Q&A with Howard Kakita and Junji Sarashina, Japanese Americans who were in Hiroshima when the atomic bomb was dropped. The program will be moderated by JANM Vice President of Operations/Ar...

Contested Histories at 2019 Jerome/Rohwer Pilgrimage (Little Rock, AR)

2019年04月12日

TRAVELING DISPLAY2019 Jerome/Rohwer PilgrimageLittle Rock, AR9 a.m.–6 p.m.Workshop: 10–10:30 a.m.(Pilgrimage dates: April 11–13) 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 ...

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 ...

"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...

Rhythm and Rice

A look at the longtime, ongoing New Year’s mochitsuki tradition in Livingston, CA. It features interviews conducted by JANM’s Director of Collections Management & Access Kristen Hayashi with Sherman Kishi, Dawn Nakashima, Aya Newman, and Harrison Uyematsu. Directed by Evan Kodani 8 minutes Created in conjunction with JANM’s A Taste of Home program series, supported by the Consulate General of Japan in Los...