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  • Giant Robot Workshop: Wooden Worlds with Yoskay Yamamoto

    May 11, 2024

    Join Giant Robot Biennale 5 exhibition artist, Yoskay Yamamoto, as he guides you through the process of designing and decorating your own recycled wood creations. Born and raised in Toba, Japan, Yoskay Yamamoto moved to the United States at the age of fifteen. A self-trained illustrator, Yamamoto blends pop iconic characters from his new Western home with traditional and mythical Japanese elements and balances his...

  • JANM Welcomes New Chief Impact Officer

    Mar 27, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) welcomes Kenyon Mayeda as the Museum’s new Chief Impact Officer. He will begin on April 1, 2024. Mayeda brings over twenty years of leadership, strategy, and institution-wide performance and impact to the Museum. He started his career as a JANM intern during the summer of 2004 and has since worked at the Japanese Community Youth Council, Cathay Bank, a...

  • "Lt. Watada: A Matter of Conscience". Directed by Oscar Winner Freida Lee Mock

    Mar 26, 2011

    He’s called a hero, a coward; a patriot, a traitor. How does an Army officer full of promise, praised by his commanders as exemplary with unlimited potential, come to face a felony conviction, a prison term and a dishonorable discharge? “Lt. Watada” tells the story of the first commissioned military officer to refuse to deploy to Iraq and to speak out about his belief that the war is illegal and a violation of his...

  • East West Players presents a reading of IXNAY by Paul Kikuchi

    Oct 30, 2008

    Raymond Kobayashi is in the prime of his sansei life when he’s pulled up to Heaven. But when he finds out he’s been scheduled to return as a Japanese American again, Raymond flat out refuses. A comedy about an underachieving Asian who causes major havoc at the Reincarnation Station when he ixnays his Next Life.

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

    Mar 07, 2008

    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...

  • The Art of Gaman: Arts & Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps by Delphine Hirasuna

    Apr 09, 2006

    Delphine Hirasuna presents a varied collection of artifacts photographed by Terry Hefferman in a tribute to the 120,000 Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II. Hirasuna will speak on the art of gaman, "the art of enduring the seemingly unbearable with patience and dignity"; and on how crafts were produced in camp out of found materials. Objects presented in this colorful anthology are examples of what ma...

  • Hana to Tomo ni: The History of the California Flower Market

    Sep 13, 1997

    Featuring: Gary Kawaguchi, Ph.D. At the turn of the century, Japanese Chinese and Italian flower growers combined their efforts to wholesale their flowers in the San Francisco Bay area. Join Dr. Kawaguchi as he tells of the hardships and struggles faced for nearly a century by the Japanese American flower growers who continue to dominate the flower industry in the Bay Area. Reservations required. Free with Museum ...

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

    1942 Shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese on December 7, 1941 policemen and soldiers began rounding up “suspects” in Hawai‘i and interning them at Kilauea Military Camp, located near Kilauea Volcano on the island of Hawai‘i. The government feared that people of Japanese ancestry would sabotage the war effort, even though investigators found only one case of disloyalty among islanders. At Ki...

  • Don’t Fence Me In: Coming of Age in America’s Concentration Camps—Resources

    Don’t Fence Me In: Coming of Age in America’s Concentration Camps explores the experiences of Japanese American youth who asserted their place as young Americans confronting the injustice of being imprisoned in World War II concentration camps. Check out our resources including: A video about conserving a Boy Scout drum An activity guide created by JANM’s Education Unit to accompany the exhibition ...

  • A Life in Pieces: The Diary and Letters of Stanley Hayami - Stanley Hayami

    Stanley Hayami was an ordinary American teenager from Mark Keppel High School in Alhambra, Calif. who enjoyed writing and sketching in his diary. Born on December 23, 1925, he was the son of Frank Naoichi and Asano Hayami. Stanley was the second youngest of four children, and in 1941, he was living the life of an average teenager in San Gabriel, Calif. The December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor attack by Japan forever alte...