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Musician June Kuramoto to be Celebrated in Program of Music at JANM on October 19

2024年09月23日

LOS ANGELES, CA – In Japanese, Ichigo Ichie translates to “One chance, one opportunity.” This is the theme of the Arigato event, a program celebrating the noted koto musician and 2024 NEA National Heritage Fellow June Kuramoto on Saturday, October 19, 2024, at 2 p.m. in the Tateuchi Democracy Forum at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM). Tickets are $50 ($40 for JANM Members) and are available at janm.org/ev...

JANM Mourns the Passing of Raymond S. Uno

2024年03月11日

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) mourns the passing of the Honorable Raymond S. Uno. A nationally recognized civil rights and peace activist and retired Third District Court judge, Uno was the first person of color to ever serve as a judge in Utah. Born in Ogden, Utah, he and his family moved to El Monte, California, where he went to a segregated school. During World War II he and hi...

JANM Hosts the Natsumatsuri Family Festival on August 12, 2023

2023年07月27日

LOS ANGELES, CA – Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will host the Natsumatsuri Family Festival on Saturday, August 12, 2023, from 11 a.m.–5 p.m. The Museum’s annual summer celebration features free cultural performances, crafts, and activities for families and kids of all ages. Admission to the Natsumatsuri Family Festival is free. All visitors are requested to register for their free tickets to ensure smo...

Glenn Kaino: Aki’s Market Opening Celebration

2023年06月30日

FREE Join us for the opening of Aki’s Market, a new and uniquely personal project by acclaimed multimedia artist and filmmaker Glenn Akira Kaino. Visit this new exhibition for free, explore the museum, and dance to beats by DJ Melo-D of the Beat Junkies. Food and ice cream available for purchase from food trucks Savage Taco and Moom Maam. Glenn Kaino: Aki’s Market is inspired by Akira and Sachiye Shiraishi’s sm...

Contested Histories at The Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California (San Francisco, CA)

2018年06月23日 - 2018年06月24日

TRAVELING DISPLAYThe Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern CaliforniaSan Francisco, CASaturday: 9 a.m.–6:30 p.m.; workshop: 5:30 p.m.–6:15 p.m.Sunday: 9 a.m.–6 p.m.; workshop: 3:30 p.m.–4:15 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 wrongful...

Perseverance at the Middlebury College Museum of Art (Middlebury, VT)

2016年06月10日 - 2016年08月07日

TRAVELING EXHIBITION Middlebury College Museum of Art Middlebury, VT Perseverance: Japanese Tattoo Tradition in a Modern World is a groundbreaking photographic exhibition that explores the master craftsmanship of traditional Japanese tattoos and their enduring influence on modern tattoo practices. Even as Japanese-style tattooing has moved into the mainstream, it remains an enigmatic and misunderst...

PROF. SCOTT KURASHIGE TO DISCUSS 'SHIFTING GROUNDS OF RACE' ON SATURDAY, JULY 30

2011年07月28日

Professor Scott Kurashige will provide insight into his book, Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles, at a public program set for the Japanese American National Museum on Saturday, July 30, beginning at 2 p.m. Among Professor Kurashige’s insights is the fact that Los Angeles, now considered one of the most diverse metropolitan areas in the world, had the sma...

'YEAR OF THE RABBIT: STAN SAKAI'S USAGI YOJIMBO' EXHIBITION TO OPEN JULY 9

2011年06月24日

The Japanese American National Museum will premiere its latest exhibition, Year of the Rabbit: Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo, on Saturday, July 9, featuring original art of the iconic comic book character and a new documentary on cartoonist Stan Sakai. Premiere Sponsor for the exhibition is Daruma. The show runs through October 30, 2011. Sakai’s samurai rabbit has become internationally famous since its inception 27 ...

AUTHOR JOHN CHRISTGAU TO DISCUSS TREATMENT OF 'ENEMY ALIENS' DURING WW II

2010年08月19日

Examination of the United States Government’s Enemy Alien Internment Program, which operated from 1941 to 1946, is the subject of a public program featuring author John Christgau on Saturday, August 28, beginning at 2 p.m., at the Japanese American National Museum. Christgau is the author of the book, Enemies: World War II Alien Internment, as well as a collaborator on the photo exhibit, "The Alien Enemy Files: Hi...

AUTHOR TO DISCUSS BOOK ON 'NURSE OF MANZANAR' ON JULY 18

2009年07月03日

The book, Nurse of Manzanar, based on a lost manuscript by Nisei Toshiko Eto Nakamura, who was a registered nurse when World War II broke out, will be the subject of a public program at the Japanese American National Museum on Saturday, July 18, beginning at 2 p.m. Samuel Nakamura, Toshiko’s only son, discovered the manuscript after his mother’s death in 1994. The manuscript was written shortly after the end of Wo...