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2014 Oshogatsu Family Festival—Year of the Horse
2014年01月05日
Ring in the New Year and the Year of the Horse with fun arts ‘n crafts, food, exciting cultural activities, and performances! HIGHLIGHTS: Onigiri Contest sponsored by Common Grains Candy artist Shan Ichiyanagi Meet & ride real live ponies! Sample traditional Japanese New Year's foods Mochitsuki demonstration by Kodama Taiko See below for complete schedule!
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"Hiro: A Story of Japanese Internment" by Keiko Wright
2013年07月27日
A Gold Medal winner at the 38th Annual Student Academy Awards, Hiro is a short documentary explores the life of Hiroshi ‘Hiro’ Hoshizaki. A retired grandfather of six, Hiro was incarcerated at the Heart Mountain Relocation during his adolescence. As we follow him on his own journey to confront the events and memories of his past, we learn of his incarceration and the traumatic repercussions this experience has had on...
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"Children of Manzanar" edited by Heather C. Lindquist
2013年06月29日
This program has been cancelled. We apologize for the inconvenience. This book captures the experiences of the nearly four thousand children and young adults held at Manzanar during World War II. Quotes from these children accompany photographs from both official and unofficial photographers, including Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and Toyo Miyatake. These photos and remembrances record a barren world of guard towe...
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NATIONAL MUSEUM PRODUCES DVDS OF CLASSIC MADE-FOR-TV FILM 'FAREWELL TO MANZANAR'
2011年11月10日
The Japanese American National Museum announced that it has obtained the licensing rights through the NBCUniversal Television Consumer Products Group to the classic made-for-TV 1976 movie, "Farewell to Manzanar," and has produced DVD copies for sale this fall for the first time ever. Based on the autobiographical book, Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James Houston, the film is a rare Hollywood...
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Wellness as a Global Solution: A Look at Keiro's Future & 50 Years of Enhancing the Quality of Senior Life in our Community
2011年09月18日
With one in five individuals over 65, the Japanese American community foreshadows what the rest of the nation will experience in 2050. Learn about how Keiro Senior HealthCare serves as a model of care for a healthy community and how this affects you now, whatever your age! 2011 is the 50th anniversary of Keiro Senior HealthCare, a not-for-profit organization providing culturally-sensitive and person-centered senior ...
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A Reading of My Man Kono by Philip W. Chung
2009年03月19日
FREE! East West Players presents a reading of My Man Kono which explores the extraordinary life of Toraichi Kono from a Japanese immigrant to movie star Charlie Chaplin’s assistant to his arrest in 1941 as a Japanese spy.
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'DREAMS TO DREAMS' VINYL SHOW FEATURES INTERPRETATIONS OF TRADITIONAL DARUMA DOLL
2008年12月04日
The Japanese American National Museum in association with Dacosta of Chocolate Soop has unveiled the first custom vinyl toy show in a museum, the "Dreams to Dreams" Custom Vinyl Show, featuring the works of 40 + artists who customized Chocolate Soop’s DCTO (Dream Come True Object), a futuristic vinyl version of a traditional Japanese Daruma or folk toy. The display will be available through Saturday, January 4, 2009,...
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Closing of the exhibition "From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i"
2002年11月24日
Closing of the exhibition From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i
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"Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray"
2001年10月04日
Elegant and penetrating, Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray positions this immigrant photographer within the canon of American art. In Los Angeles, Miyatake is renowned as a studio photographer. To others he is known for having smuggled a lens and film holder into one of America's WWII concentration camps. Yet it was his little-known artistic pursuits before the war that honed his discerning eye. Join filmmaker B...
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Reflections: Memoirs of Japanese American Women in Minnesota
1997年03月01日
Book Reading and Signing John N. Tsuchida, editor of Reflections: Memoirs of Japanese Women in Minnesota, joins the Museum to sign and read from this extraordinary book. This rich anthology of memoirs includes works by fourteen Japanese American women in Minnesota which tells of their experiences and effects of World War II, racism, discrimination, and their endurance, strength, and personal success. Free with...