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  • Film Screening—Dealing with Dad

    Jun 26, 2025

    Join JANM and Changing Tides for a screening of the award-winning and poignant dramedy, Dealing with Dad. When Margaret reluctantly returns to her hometown to deal with her dad’s sudden depression, she and her brothers learn how to work together to help him get better and rediscover their relationship with him and with each other.The screening will be followed by a Q&A discussion with the film’s writer and director, ...

  • Film Screening and Discussion—"Hidden Histories: The Story and Legacy of Japanese American WWII Incarceration"

    Sep 30, 2017

    Hidden Histories is a touring program of five short narrative films about the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. Each film tells a personal story that dramatizes a different aspect of this history. Hidden Histories commemorates an important chapter in American history at the same time that it serves as a cautionary tale; although the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians d...

  • Fred T. Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution: Forum for Educators

    Jan 06, 2011

    California Assemblymembers Warren Furutani and Marty Block authored Assembly Bill 1775, which establishes January 30 as Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution to encourage schools across the state to teach students about Fred Korematsu’s story and its relevance in today’s post-9/11 environment. The first Fred Korematsu Day will be celebrated on January 30, 2011, on Fred Korematsu’s birthday. Ka...

  • Performance of Cold Tofu's The Armando Show!

    Oct 28, 2010

    The Armando Show is a long-form improv performance inspired by an audience suggestion. A special guest host (or “Armando”) interprets that suggestion through a personal and truthful improvised monologue. Inspired by that monologue, COLD TOFU performs scenes that, in turn, inspire a response from our Armando. This propels hilarious interchanges between the Armando’s monologues and the company’s scenes. "Pay-Wha...

  • AUTHOR OF 'BEST FRIENDS FOREVER' CREATED BOOK AFTER INTERVIEWING LONG-TIME NATIONAL MUSEUM VOLUNTEERS

    Sep 29, 2010

    Best Friends Forever: A World War II Scrapbook author Beverly Patt will read from her book and talk about her research to create a work of fiction based on historical events at the Japanese American National Museum on Saturday, October 2, beginning at 2 p.m. The story concerns two young girls, Louise Krueger and Dottie Masuoka, who find themselves separated by the government’s unconstitutional forced removal of Ja...

  • UCLA Extension One-Day Program: Boyle Heights: The Power of Place

    Oct 05, 2002

    This one-day program brings together a panel of curators, designers, educators, and scholars to discuss the history and transformation of Boyle Heights, a longtime gateway for newcomers to Los Angeles. In addition, curators guide students through the exhibit's artifacts, photographs, original artwork, and interactive environments which present a multivocal interpretation of the neighborhood. Participants will also vi...

  • "Common Ground: The Heart Of The Community" - Exhibition Fact Sheet

    Jan 01, 1999

    Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles Opening: January 23, 1999 Curator: Glen Kitayama Exhibition Coordinator: Cayleen Nakamura This exhibition presents the personal life histories of multiple generations of the Japanese American community to trace this diverse community’s development over the past 130 years. It explores how Americans of Japanese ancestry resettled and forged their identity, ...

  • World War II Incarceration Of Japanese Americans Featured In Ellis Island Exhibit

    Mar 25, 1998

    The award-winning exhibition, America’s Concentration Camps: Remembering the Japanese American Experience, which drew record crowds to the Japanese American National Museum in 1994 and 1995, is a featured exhibit at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum in New York City beginning Friday, April 3 and running through January 5, 1998. The exhibition details the World War II experiences of 120,000 Americans of Japan...

  • From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai`i

    Oct 28, 1997

    The exhibition explores the evolution of Japanese American identity in Hawai`i from the first to the present generation. Through personal artifacts, family photographs and first-person accounts, the role of Japanese Americans in sports, labor, education, religion, politics, and business is explored as arenas of sharing and adaptation in our Island society. When Japanese immigrants first worked on Hawai`i’s sug...

  • Institute Of Museum Services Awards $112,500 Grant To Japanese American National Museum

    Apr 24, 1997

    The Japanese American National Museum was awarded a $112,500 General Operating Support Grant by the Institute of Museum Services (IMS), a Federal agency that strengthens museums to benefit the public. The Museum was one of 953 institutions nationally to apply for grant money. Out of those applicants, 192 received awards totaling over $15 million. Those institutions that qualified have demonstrated outstanding pe...