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2017 Gala Dinner and Silent Auction

2017年05月06日

Reconnecting with the Past, Forging Our Future Honoring: Irene Hirano Inouye, Lifetime Achievement Award Bruce T. Kaji, Legacy Award Tom Ikeda, Founders’ Award Join us for the 2017 Gala Dinner and Silent Auction at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Suites, Los Angeles on Saturday, May 6. Reconnecting with the Past, Forging Our Future will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Japanese Amer...

2017 Gala Dinner and Silent Auction

Honoring Irene Hirano Inouye Bruce T. Kaji Tom Ikeda

Before They Were Heroes at Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA)

2017年05月03日 - 2017年06月26日

TRAVELING EXHIBITION Harvard Medical School Boston, MA Susumu “Sus” Ito’s WWII photographs were taken while on a tour of duty through Europe as a member of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team’s 522nd Field Artillery Battalion. While Ito participated in such dramatic events as the rescue of the Lost Battalion, these rare and breathtaking images capture the humble daily lives of a group of young Japanese A...

"Moving Day"

2017年05月01日 - 2017年08月11日

March 23 – August 11, 2017 Daily from sunset to midnight In conjunction with the exhibition Instructions to All Persons: Reflections on Executive Order 9066, JANM presents Moving Day, an outdoor public art installation. The work consists of a series of projections of the Civilian Exclusion Orders that were publicly posted during World War II to inform persons of Japanese ancestry of their impending forced removal...

Little Tokyo Walking Tour

2017年04月29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.

C3: The Conference for Creative Content

2017年04月29日 - 2017年04月30日

Saturday, April 29 – Sunday, April 30 Presented by Visual Communications, the nation’s premier Asian Pacific American media arts center, as part of the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, C3 is a two-day media arts conference dedicated to providing the APA creative community with a space for meaningful discourse on media and entertainment. Panels and seminars feature established pioneers in entertai...

33rd Annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival

2017年04月28日 - 2017年04月30日

Friday, April 28 – Sunday, April 30 Visual Communications, the nation’s premier Asian Pacific American media arts center, once again brings the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival to JANM for a series of special event screenings and select encores of festival favorites. In many cases, filmmakers will be on hand to participate in Q&A sessions with audiences, adding a uniquely intimate element to the experie...

JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM DEVELOPS LESSON PLANS FOR "INSTRUCTIONS TO ALL PERSONS" EXHIBITION

2017年04月24日

Los Angeles, CA The Japanese American National Museum has developed a series of lesson plans for teachers to complement its Instructions to All Persons: Reflections on Executive Order 9066 exhibition and enhance student learning of the 75th anniversary of President Franklin Roosevelt’s signing of the order that led to the tragic and unlawful incarceration of 120,000 individuals of Japanese ancestry during World Wa...

AUTHOR WAKAKO YAMAUCHI TO DISCUSS LATEST WORK, 'ROSEBUD AND OTHER STORIES'

2011年04月23日

Author Wakako Yamauchi, known for her groundbreaking short story, "And the Soul Shall Dance" which was turned into an award-winning play, will discuss her collection of short fiction in the anthology, Rosebud and Other Stories, at a program set at the Japanese American National Museum on Sunday, May 1, beginning at 2 p.m. Yamauchi, who was born in California Imperial Valley in the 1920s, attended night school at t...

MUSEUM SETS 'MOMENT OF REMEMBRANCE' GATHERING FOR JAPAN VICTIMS ON APRIL 29

2011年04月12日

The Japanese American National Museum with the support of the Little Tokyo Community Council (LTCC) will hold a "Moment of Remembrance" community gathering for the victims of Japan’s natural disasters on Friday, April 29, in the Museum’s plaza, beginning at 2:30 p.m. The memorial gathering will include brief remarks and reflections by Rev. Noriaki Ito of Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple and Rev. Mark Nakagawa of C...