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Little Tokyo Walking Tour

2015年06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.

2015 V3 Digital Media Conference (V3con)

2015年06月26日 - 2015年06月27日

Friday, June 26–Saturday, June 27 JANM is pleased to host the 2015 edition of the V3 Digital Media Conference (V3con), an event that focuses on digital communications within the Asian American and Pacific Islander community. Presented by the Los Angeles chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association, V3con invites online journalists, social media communicators, and interested individuals to share ...

"Nisei Stories of Wartime Japan"

2015年06月20日

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, thousands of American citizens of Japanese ancestry who were in Japan at the time were barred from returning to the United States until after the war ended. Through ten interviews that encompass a range of experiences and attitudes, this documentary film takes an inside look at the experiences of the stranded American citizens. Discussion to follow with mother-and-son fil...

Target Free Family Saturdays: Uniquely You

2015年06月13日

FREE ALL DAY! In conjunction with the Mixed Remixed Festival dedicated to celebrating the mixed-heritage experience, JANM’s day of family fun will celebrate everything that’s special about YOU! ALL DAY ACTIVITIES: Mirror, Mirror: Beautify a mirror for yourself, adding fun decorations that reflect who you are. Be a Puppetmaster: Create your own puppet self-portrait. Quick-Draw Caricatur...

Mixed Remixed Festival

2015年06月13日

FREE ALL DAY Mixed Remixed is an exciting film, book, and media festival dedicated to celebrating and raising awareness of the mixed-heritage experience. Activities include panels, workshops, readings, and film screenings as well as live music, comedy, and spoken word. Mixed Remixed is timed to coincide with Loving Day (June 12), an annual worldwide commemoration of Loving v. Virginia, the historic 1967 S...

DOCUMENTARY 'RESETTLEMENT TO REDRESS' TO BE SCREENED, AUTHOR OF BIO ON GOV. RALPH CARR TO SPEAK MARCH 22

2008年03月07日

The documentary, "Resettlement to Redress: Rebirth of the Japanese-American Community", will be screened and author Adam Schrager who has written a biography on former Colorado Governor Ralph Carr, the only governor to welcome Japanese Americans to his state during World War II, will speak as part of a public program set for Saturday, March 22, beginning at 2 p.m., at the Japanese American National Museum. This pr...

kip fulbeck: part asian, 100% hapa EXHIBITION SET FOR NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MARCH 10-MAY 30

2008年03月07日

The widely-acclaimed traveling photographic exhibition, kip fulbeck: part asian, 100% hapa, organized by the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, with the support, in part, by the James Irvine Foundation, will be installed at New York University’s Asian/Pacific/American Institute from March 10 to May 30. The original exhibition, which opened in 2006 at the National Museum, featured 80 photographic por...

13 JAPANESE AMERICAN LEADERS SELECTED TO TRAVEL TO JAPAN IN MARCH

2008年02月22日

Thirteen outstanding Japanese American leaders have been selected for the 2008 Japanese American Leadership Delegation Program from ten cities throughout the United States. This year’s Delegation will travel to three cities in Japan, Tokyo, Kyoto, and Fukuoka, from February 29 to March 9, 2008. This will be the eighth Delegation that will travel to Japan. The program is funded by The Ministry of Foreign Affairs a...

TRUSTEES NAME AKEMI KIKUMURA YANO AS NEW CEO OF NATIONAL MUSEUM

2008年02月21日

LOS ANGELES.—The Board of Trustees for the Japanese American National Museum named Dr. Akemi Kikumura Yano as the institution’s new Chief Executive Officer on February 1, 2008, because of her strong programmatic background and her extensive experience as someone who first joined the institution in 1987 and has worked as a curator, development officer and most recently as Senior Vice President. Kikumura Yano assume...

JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM SETS NATIONAL CONFERENCE, "WHOSE AMERICA? WHO'S AMERICAN?"

2007年10月02日

As part of its year-long commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the signing of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which provided an official apology and reparations to thousands of Japanese Americans unconstitutionally displaced by the U.S. government during World War II, the Japanese American National Museum’s Enduring Communities: The Japanese American Experience in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas and Utah pro...