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Members Only Exhibition Tour: "Transpacific Borderlands"

2018年01月27日

Join exhibition curator and JANM VP of Exhibitions Clement Hanami for a gallery tour Transpacific Borderlands. Limited to 25 participants. RSVP by January 23 using the link below. You can also contact memberevents@janm.org or 213.830.5646.

Little Tokyo Walking Tour

2018年01月27日

Relive history and learn about present-day Little Tokyo with JANM docents. $12 members, $15 non-members. Museum admission included. Comfortable walking shoes recommended. Weather permitting. Limited to 20 participants.

Film Screening and Q&A—"Mifune: The Last Samurai"

2018年01月20日

Mifune: The Last Samurai, a new film by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Steven Okazaki, explores the accidental movie career of Toshiro Mifune, one of the true giants of world cinema. Mifune made 16 remarkable films with director Akira Kurosawa during the golden age of Japanese cinema, including Rashomon (1950), Seven Samurai (1954), and Yojimbo (1961). Together they thrilled audiences and influenced filmmakin...

2018 Oshogatsu Family Festival—Year of the Dog

2018年01月07日

FREE ALL DAY! Ring in the new year and celebrate the Year of the Dog with fun arts and crafts, food, cultural activities, and exciting performances! Traditional mochitsuki (Japanese rice pounding ritual) performance by Kodama Taiko Drawing demonstration and book signing by Usagi Yojimbo creator Stan Sakai Dog candy sculptures by Shan the Candyman JANM Members Only reserved seating and express lines C...

Contested Histories: Art and Artifacts from the Allen Hendershott Eaton Collection

2018年01月07日 - 2018年04月08日

Now Traveling!Check the Venues page to see where the pop-up display is traveling.Interested in booking this display? JANM is currently looking for locations in the central valley of California, San Diego county, and parts of Arizona. Download the Contested Histories travel fact sheet or email Clement Hanami at chanami@janm.org for more information. Allen Hendershott Eaton’s historic 1952 book, Beauty Behind Barbed W...

AUTHOR OF 'ONE THOUSAND PAPER CRANES' TO DISCUSS STORY OF SADAKO AT OPENING OF 'FOLDING PAPER' EXHIBITION

2012年02月25日

Pastor Takayuki Ishii will discuss his book, One Thousand Paper Cranes: The Story of Sadako and the Children's Peace Statue, as part of the opening day festivities for the exhibition, Folding Paper: The Infinite Possibilities of Origami, on Saturday, March 10, at the Japanese American National Museum. This new exhibition, which runs through August 26, is organized in partnership with International Arts & Artists (IA&...

70 YEARS LATER: THE LESSONS OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 9066

2012年02月15日

By Gordon Yamate and Seth Gerber The 70th anniversary of Executive Order 9066 marks one of the saddest tragedies of our great country: the compulsory expulsion from their homes and false imprisonment of Americans of Japanese ancestry on U.S. soil during World War II. The signing of Executive Order 9066 by President Franklin Roosevelt on Feb. 19, 1942, is often seen as the first domino to fall in a chain of xenophobi...

MUSEUM, IA&A TO PREMIERE 'FOLDING PAPER' EXHIBITION MARCH 10

2012年01月17日

The Japanese American National Museum is pleased to announce it will premiere the new exhibition Folding Paper: The Infinite Possibilities of Origami, an engaging, thought-provoking, and interdisciplinary look at the modern advances of origami through contemporary artworks, inventions, and videos. Folding Paper, organized in partnership with International Arts & Artists (IA&A), is on view at the National Museum begin...

‘TRANSFORMING A FORGOTTEN STORY’ THEME FOR NATIONAL MUSEUM'S 2012 ANNUAL DINNER ON MAY 5

2011年12月21日

The Japanese American National Museum announced that its theme for its 2012 Annual Gala Dinner will be "Transforming a Forgotten Story", highlighting the evolution of the Japanese American World War II story from being forgotten to being shared internationally. Ceremonies are set for Saturday, May 5, 2012, at the J.W. Marriott Hotel at L.A. LIVE and will include the presentation of the Museum’s Distinguished Medal of...

Madame Fujima Kansuma

Born May 9, 1918, Madame Fujima Kansuma is a celebrated Japanese American kabuki dancer and teacher whose career began in the early 1940s and spanned decades. After studying under the “God of Theatre,” Onoe Kikugoro VI, in Japan, she was requested to perform her pieces in different concentration camps while still incarcerated in Arkansas during World War II. Because she dedicated her life to sharing the culture of ka...