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Queer Nikkei Stories: Intergenerational Conversations

2020年06月18日

FREE What was it like to be gay and Japanese American decades ago? What is it like now? Okaeri, JANM, and Visual Communications invite you to listen to and participate in conversations with several generations of LGBTQ+ Japanese Americans as they talk about their experiences at the intersections of these identities. Actor and activist George Takei will be in conversation with USC student Justin Kawaguchi...

ZOCALO—Can U.S. Democracy Survive Russian Information Warfare?

2018年09月14日

A Zócalo/Japanese American National Museum Event at JANM’s National Center for the Preservation of Democracy Moderated by Warren Olney, Host, KCRW’s "To the Point" American intelligence services have unanimously concluded that the Russian government intervened in the 2016 US elections, and seeks to meddle again this fall. One of Russia’s methods was to use social media to distribute disinformation. ...

Memorial for Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombings

2018年08月04日 - 2018年08月09日

Saturday–Thursday, August 4–9 Admission on Saturday, August 4: Pay What You Wish In commemoration of the World War II atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which occurred on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively, we will feature Yoko Ono’s Imagine Peace Wish Tree. Participants can write down their personal wishes for peace on a piece of paper that they tie to the tree. At the end of the commemoration, the ...

JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM STATEMENT REGARDING GORDON HIRABAYASHI CASE AS PRECEDENT FOR GUANTANAMO POLICY

2018年06月20日

Los Angeles, CA—The Japanese American National Museum is shocked and outraged that attorneys for the Department of Defense have cited the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II as a precedent for the administration’s current policies. In this instance, the Supreme Court’s 1943 ruling in Hirabayashi v. United States has been presented as a rationale for the Defense Department’s efforts to prevent a pr...

Comedy InvAsian Live Tapings—Amy Hill

2017年02月26日

JANM is pleased to host Comedy InvAsian, a new series of one-hour standup comedy performances that will be filmed in front of live audiences in our Tateuchi Democracy Forum. Come be a part of the audience as six of the nation’s most exciting Asian and Pacific Islander American (APIA) comedians take the stage. Actress/comedian Amy Hill’s numerous television and film credits include Seinfeld, All-American Girl,...

Comedy InvAsian Live Tapings—Robin Tran

2017年02月25日

JANM is pleased to host Comedy InvAsian, a new series of one-hour standup comedy performances that will be filmed in front of live audiences in our Tateuchi Democracy Forum. Come be a part of the audience as six of the nation’s most exciting Asian and Pacific Islander American (APIA) comedians take the stage. Robin Tran came out as a transgender woman in 2015 and has been writing about her experiences ever si...

National Conversation on Immigration: Barriers and Access

2016年11月19日

FREE On the 225th anniversary of the Bill of Rights, the National Archives is hosting a series of conversations across the country to explore the complex issues around human and civil rights in the modern era. JANM is proud to host this free daylong conversation on immigration. 10 a.m.: David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States, and Ann Burroughs, Interim President and CEO of JANM, will open the N...

Jidai

2015年08月01日 - 2015年08月30日

Jidai: Timeless Works of Samurai Art looks at the weaponry and armor of the samurai—Japan’s elite warrior class. Assembled from collections in the greater Los Angeles area, Jidai features rare and historically significant samurai artifacts dating as far back as the Kamakura Period (AD 1185–1333) in Japan. The display also examines ways this facet of Japanese culture has been preserved, embraced, and shared in America...

1ST & CENTRAL FREE CONCERT SERIES TO BEGIN JULY 10

2008年06月14日

"1st & Central Summer Concerts," the Japanese American National Museum’s popular outdoor music series, returns from July through September for a fourth season in the heart of Little Tokyo in downtown Los Angeles. As in years past, thousands are expected to turn out on the National Museum Plaza to enjoy an eclectic program of master musicians and not-to-be-missed newcomers, with sounds ranging from world music to jazz...

NATIONAL MUSEUM RECOGNIZES REDRESS PROPONENTS AT ANNUAL DINNER

2008年05月02日

The Japanese American National Museum utilized the occasion of its 2008 Annual Gala Dinner to bring together some of the key figures in the passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 in order to present the story of Japanese American redress before an audience of over 1,000 people on Saturday, April 19, at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel. The government apologized for its unconstitutional forced removal of thou...