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Author Conversation—A Rebel’s Outcry: Biography of Issei Civil Rights Leader Sei Fujii

2022年09月03日

FREE In Person RSVP Virtual RSVP Celebrate the release of the award-winning biography of civil rights leader, Sei Fujii, with a special 10th anniversary screening of the short film Lil Tokyo Reporter and a discussion around the biography. The conversation will include filmmaker and publisher Jeffrey Gee Chin and Academy Award-winner Chris Tashima, and actress Keiko Agena. This program is prese...

Tea n’ Zines

2022年09月01日

FREE Gather with us to share tea and conversation and explore creative expression. Interactive creative exercises will be led by traci kato-kiriyama, former Little Tokyo +LAB Artist-in-Residence at JANM, and Mya Worrell, zine artist. Make yourself a warm (or iced!) cup of tea, get comfortable, and join us online! All ages are welcome to participate. This program was launched in 2019 through the +LAB Artist Resi...

Kelli-Ann Nakayama Named Chief Development Officer at the Japanese American National Museum

2022年09月01日

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) has appointed Kelli-Ann Nakayama as the Museum’s new chief development officer. Nakayama has more than twenty years of professional nonprofit fundraising experience, with a specialty in capital campaigns and major/principal gifts. She provides leadership to the Museum's national philanthropic funding strategies, including membership, individual and ins...

The Japanese American National Museum Announces Ten New Board Members

2022年08月30日

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) has announced ten new members to its board of trustees and board of governors. Kristine Nishiyama and Dennis Sugino have been named trustees. Jennifer Hirano, Akemi Kondo Dalvi, Yuko Kaifu, Masatoshi Komoriya, David Mineta, Michele Miyakawa, Josh Morey, and Christopher Yang were named governors. “Our new board members bring a wealth of diversity and...

William T Fujioka Named Chair of the Japanese American National Museum Board of Trustees

2022年08月25日

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) is proud to announce that William T Fujioka has been named chair of the JANM Board of Trustees. Fujioka is a third-generation Japanese American who started his forty-four-year career in public service working for the County of Santa Cruz while attending the University of California, Santa Cruz in the early 1970s. After graduating in 1974, he interned...

Premiere Screening and Q&A—No No Girl

2022年08月20日

FREE Join us for the Los Angeles community premiere of No No Girl, a new film about family history, secrets, and identity. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the cast and crew. Tickets to this program are sold out. Please use the RSVP link to sign up for the waitlist and we will notify you if space becomes available. Click for event press release

The Japanese American National Museum Extends BeHere / 1942 and Sutra and Bible Exhibitions

2022年08月18日

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) has extended the closing dates for two temporary exhibitions that offer new insights into the incarceration of Japanese Americans in American concentration camps during World War II. BeHere / 1942: A New Lens on the Japanese American Incarceration will stay open through January 8, 2023. Sutra and Bible: Faith and the Japanese American World War II Incarce...

For Every Generation: Recovering and Sharing Family Histories

2022年08月13日

FREE In Person RSVP Virtual RSVP Exhibitions like Sutra and Bible: Faith and the Japanese American World War II Incarceration are made possible by the dedicated efforts of family and community members who have preserved and researched their family’s histories and the objects, images, and documents that tell these stories. Join us as we learn from Dr. Gail Y. Okawa, Mitch Homma, Elizabeth Nishiura, ...

JANM PRESENTS TRANCENDIENTS COMMUNITY CELEBRATION: CHALLENGING BORDERS

2020年02月14日

Los Angeles, CA–The Transcendients Community Celebration: Challenging Borders, a free one-day event, kicks off on Saturday, March 7 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Japanese American National Museum. The community celebration offers music, dance, art, speaker series, and hands-on activities along with artist Taiji Terasaki’s groundbreaking collaboration with the Japanese American National Museum, Transcendients: Her...

TRANSCENDIENTS: Heroes at Borders A Contemporary Art Exhibit by Taiji Terasaki

2020年01月21日

Los Angeles, CA–Celebrated multi-media artist Taiji Terasaki is hard at work on his next exhibition at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM), in remembrance of the 78th anniversary of Japanese American concentration camps in World War II. On February 19,1942 President Roosevelt signed an executive order that authorized the unconstitutional incarceration of American citizens and residents. TRANSCENDIENTS: Heroe...