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Discover Nikkei Volunteer Open House

2021年09月25日

Interested in helping us grow Discover Nikkei? Become a project volunteer! Discover Nikkei is JANM’s community-based web project sharing stories and the experiences of Nikkei around the world. Volunteers help with all aspects of the site as well as related virtual programs and promotion. Language support is needed in English, Japanese, Spanish, and Portuguese. Volunteer opportunities include: Writing T...

"They Called Us Enemy"—Conversation and Signing with George Takei

2019年07月21日

SOLD OUT Join living legend George Takei for a brief conversation about the graphic novel They Called Us Enemy. The book, co-written by Justin Eisinger and Steven Scott and illustrated by Harmony Becker, is Takei’s firsthand account of years behind barbed wire at an American concentration camp during World War II, the terrors of growing up under legalized racism, his mother’s hard choices, his father’s faith in de...

Members Only Learning at Lunch: Iwao Takamoto

2016年11月18日

If you missed the program, you can watch it online on JANM’s YouTube channel. Join JANM’s collections staff for an exploration of the work of animator, TV producer, and film director Iwao Takamoto. As a teenager, Takamoto and his family were sent to Manzanar, where he learned basic illustration. After the war, he was hired by Walt Disney Studios as an assistant animator. He eventually beca...

"Hello!" Members Only Exhibition Tour with Co-curator Jamie Rivadeneira

2014年10月18日

Join Jamie Rivadeneira, founder of JapanLA and co-curator of Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty, for this exclusive gallery tour. Limited to 20 participants. RSVP to 213.830.5646 or memberevents@janm.org. This event has reached capacity; no additional reservations can be accepted.

I Want the Wide American Earth

2013年09月14日 - 2013年10月27日

Asian Pacific Americans have a rich, deep-rooted history in the United States, spanning from the first immigrants in the 1800s to the multi-ethnic communities found today. Through a Smithsonian traveling display of 30 banners of poignant text, photographs, and art, I Want the Wide American Earth: An Asian Pacific American Story takes a sweeping look at how Asian Pacific Americans have shaped and been shaped by the co...

"The Manzanar Fishing Club" by Cory Shiozaki

2013年04月20日

The Manzanar Fishing Club is a feature-length documentary that chronicles the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans from a unique perspective: through the eyes of those who defied the armed guards, barbed wire and searchlights to fish for trout in the surrounding waters of the Eastern Sierra. This untold story offers a unique perspective on freedom, where internees found relief from the daily grind of unju...

Fighting For Democracy at Highground Veterans Memorial Park (Neillsville, WI)

2012年11月01日 - 2012年12月31日

TRAVELING EXHIBITION Highground Veterans Memorial Park Neillsville, WI About the Exhibition Through the diverse perspectives of seven ordinary citizens whose lives and communities were forever changed by World War II, this exhibition asks visitors to think critically about freedom, history, and, ultimately, the ongoing struggle to live democratically in a diverse America. Fighting For Democracy: Who...

Border Crossings: "A Flicker in Eternity"

2011年11月12日

Presented by Visual Communications, the nation’s premier Asian Pacific American media arts center. In this installment of “Border Crossings,” an ongoing exploration of community and society through cinema and media arts, we are pleased to present the World Premiere of A Flicker in Eternity, by Ann Kaneko and Sharon Yamato. A Flicker in Eternity is a documentary that tells the true World War II story of Stanley Hay...

Book Reading: " World War II Alien Internment " by John Christgau

2010年08月28日

WORLD WAR II ALIEN INTERNMENT BY JOHN CHRISTGAU They were called aliens and enemies. But the World War II internees John Christgau writes about were in fact ordinary people victimized by the politics of a global war. The Alien Enemy Control Program in America was born with the United States’s declaration of war on Japan, Germany, and Italy and lasted until 1948. In all, 31,275 “enemy aliens” were imprisoned in camps...

Japan after Perry

2005年02月06日 - 2005年05月01日

The opening of Yokohama, Japan, to trade with the United States and Europe in 1859 ended more than two centuries of Japanese isolation and transformed the rural fishing village into a thriving international port. Documenting this early history of Japan's gateway to the world, artists produced colorful woodblock prints of city scenes, urbane residents, and harbor views, capturing this tumultuous era of Japan's transf...