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  • Temporary Detention: A New Multimedia Project About “Assembly Centers”

    May 10, 2025

    Commemorate Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with the launch of the new multimedia project, Temporary Detention: A Guide to the Forced “Assembly Centers.” The website provides a past-and-present look at the fifteen temporary detention centers and the Owens Valley “Reception Center” operated by the US Army’s Western Civil Control Administration during World War II. Euphemistically c...

  • Community Day of Remembrance—Is It 1942 Again? Overcoming Our Fears and Upholding Constitutional Rights for All

    Feb 20, 2016

    PAY WHAT YOU WISH On February 19, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, making it possible for the U.S. military to forcibly remove and incarcerate 120,000 Japanese Americans solely on the basis of race. Each year, communities across the country hold Day of Remembrance programs to recall this shameful chapter in U.S. history and honor the courage and perseverance of the Japanese A...

  • "A Divided Community: 3 Personal Stories of Resistance" by Momo Yashima

    Jul 21, 2012

    This documentary tells the story of Yosh Kuromiya, Frank Emi, and Mits Koshiyama, who challenged the United States government’s decision to draft Japanese Americans while they and their families were being held in America’s concentration camps. A panel discussion with Professor Emeritus Art Hansen, Attorney Deborah Lim (author of The Lim Report), Yosh Kuromiya, and Momo Yashima will follow the screening. The moderato...

  • Film Screening: "Calling Tokyo: Japanese American Radio Broadcasters of World War II"

    Jul 10, 2010

    Calling Tokyo tells the story of Japanese Americans who participated in the United States and Britain's World War II broadcast campaign to influence the hearts and minds of people in Japan. Some of the radio broadcasters will share their experiences after the screening. This is a story of discovery by a son, (Gary Ono) who learned about what his father did during the war, shortly after the signing of the 1988 Civ...

  • A Reading of "No-No Boy " by Ken Narasaki

    Oct 31, 2009

    Playwright and actor Ken Narasaki adapts John Okada’s story of Ichiro Yamada as he returns home from prison and struggles to come to terms with his decision to not join the U.S. Army. Read "Tackling No No Boy" by Ken Narasaki on DiscoverNikkei.org to learn more about this play >>

  • Summer Film Festival: "Bento to Mixed Plate: Politics of Plate Lunch"

    Jul 02, 2009 - Jul 12, 2009

    To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center, the National Museum will continuously screen Bento to Mixed Plate: Politics of Plate Lunch. Politics of Plate Lunch is a penetrating yet tender look beneath the “island paradise” stereotype to explore the inter-ethnic and generational complexities of contemporary Hawai‘i. 20 min. This special showing will be screened at the Tera...

  • Conscience, the Constitution and the Japanese American Draft Resistance of World War II

    Oct 27, 2001

    The emotion surrounding the issue of the Japanese American draft resistance during World War II may be better understood and appreciated by joining us in confronting a controversy that time has not put to rest. A panel moderated by Professor Arthur Hansen that includes Frank Abe, producer of the film Conscience and the Constitution; Professor Eric Muller of the University of North Carolina School of Law, author of Fr...

  • New Exhibition: "A Process of Reflection: Paintings by Hisako Hibi" Opens July 27

    Jul 27, 1999

    A Process of Reflection: Paintings by Hisako Hibi, a new exhibition organized by the Japanese American National Museum devoted to the art and life of issei (first generation Japanese American) woman artist Hisako Hibi (1907–1991) opens Tuesday, July 27 in the Museum’s new Pavilion. This new exhibition features paintings never before exhibited in Los Angeles and includes many of Hibi’s oil-on-canvas paintings made w...

  • The Life and Work of George Hoshida: A Japanese American’s Journey—Lordsburg

    1942 Hoshida was sent from Hawai‘i to the mainland by ship in 1942. First he traveled to Fort Sam Houston in Texas where he was encarcerated for a short period of time. From Fort Sam Houston he was sent by train to Lordsburg, New Mexico, a Justice Department camp. The Justice Department camps were made up of men who were labeled suspicious simply because of their leadership in the community. Hoshida was considered...

  • New Frontiers: The Many Worlds of George Takei - Events

    Programs are free for museum members and included with admission for visitors, unless otherwise noted. To see a complete listing of JANM’s upcoming programs, visit our event calendar.