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Nick Ut: Beyond the Napalm Girl

2017年06月08日

If you missed the program, you can watch it online on JANM’s YouTube channel. FREE On June 8, 1972, Associated Press photographer Nick Ut took one of the most iconic images of the 20th century: a crying Vietnamese girl fleeing after a napalm bomb attack. Ut was just 21 years old when he captured that shot, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. The image, however, was just one of tens of thou...

JANM Free Family Days: Celebrate Japanese American History

2017年04月08日

FREE ALL DAY Learn about Japanese American history and actor/activist George Takei with crafts and activities inspired by our exhibitions, Instructions to All Persons: Reflections on Executive Order 9066 and New Frontiers: The Many Worlds of George Takei. Presented in collaboration with Kizuna. ALL DAY ACTIVITIES: Kizuna Craft Stations Get a head start on Kodomo no hi (Children’s Day, May 5) wi...

Time After Time Capsule

2016年11月01日 - 2017年01月29日

Time After Time Capsule was created by Sebastian Masuda, a Japanese artist and a founder of 6%DOKIDOKI, a boutique and a central hub of kawaii culture in Harajuku, Japan. Time After Time Capsule is an ongoing art project which invites the public to contribute cherished personal items to fill 10 translucent sculptures that will travel around the world. Each community is invited to offer or create colorfully decorat...

"Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty’s Trek Across the Pacific" by Christine Yano, PhD

2014年12月06日

Join Christine Yano, co-curator of Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty, for a discussion of her 2013 book, which takes an in-depth look at the global economic and sociological effects of the export of Japanese “cute-cool culture.” Free for members, $20 adult non-members, $10 non-members ages 6-17. Includes admission to Hello! after discussion. Tickets Available Now Purchase Pink Globalization...

Trust this History: Poets on Mothers, Missing and Otherwise

2014年05月10日

FREE! Celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month and Motherʼs Day weekend with three cutting-edge poets whose debut collections grapple with the ties formed by family, community, and history. April Naoko Heck's A Nuclear Family consists—in the words of Natalie Diaz—of “flickering shrines built from the debris of history and memory, both Japanese and American.”ʼ With American Canyon...

PROF. SAKAMOTO TO EXPLAIN CULTURAL CONFLICTS FOR JAPANESE AMERICANS AT NATIONAL MUSEUM ON JULY 28

2012年07月17日

Dr. Arthur Sakamoto, a professor of sociology at the University of Texas-Austin, will discuss the inherent conflicts between aspects of Japanese and American culture and how it has historically affected Japanese Americans in a public program set for Saturday, July 28, beginning at 2 p.m. at the Japanese American National Museum. Professor Sakamoto will lecture on "Japanese and American Aspects of the Japanese Amer...

JANM RECEIVES IMLS NATIONAL MEDAL, HIGHEST HONOR FOR AMERICAN MUSEUMS, LIBRARIES

2010年11月17日

The Board of Trustees of the Japanese American National Museum is proud to accept the 2010 Institute of Museum and Library Service (IMLS) National Medal, one of only 10 institutions and one of only four museums nationally to be recognized by IMLS this year. The National Medal for Museum and Library Service is America’s highest honor for museums and libraries across the country. Institutions are presented with the ...

'AMERICAN TAPESTRY' EXHIBITION TELLS 25 STORIES THROUGH COLLECTED OBJECTS, ART

2010年11月09日

As part of its celebration of its 25th Anniversary since its incorporation, the Japanese American National Museum will unveil its latest exhibition, American Tapestry: 25 Stories from the Collection, on Saturday, November 13. The National Museum, since its founding in 1985 and its public opening in 1992, has developed the world’s largest collection of Japanese American objects, including artifacts, photographs, do...

'ON PAPER WINGS' DOCUMENTARY TO BE SCREENED ON JUNE 27

2009年06月23日

A documentary that recounts a World War II Japanese military campaign that forced young Japanese women to help make balloons that were then armed with bombs and sent into the jet stream toward North America, resulting in the death of a woman and five girls in Oregon, and a Japanese American scholar who brought together some of the unwitting builders and the residents of the Oregon town, will be screened at the Japane...

ONE WAY OR ANOTHER: ASIAN AMERICAN ART NOW EXHIBITION CONTINUES NATIONAL TOUR

2008年01月30日

The critically acclaimed traveling exhibition, One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now, will open at the Japanese American National Museum on Sunday, February 10, 2008, as part of its national tour. Featuring 17 contemporary artists selected by a team of three curators, this exhibition, which runs through May 4, was organized by Asia Society, New York. The New York Times called the show the Asia Society's "best fo...