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  • 2024 Holiday Member Appreciation Days

    Nov 29, 2024 - Dec 01, 2024

    Come shop at the JANM Store during Member Appreciation Days and receive a 20% discount on qualified store purchases as an appreciation of thanks for all of your support and patronage!Not a current JANM Member? Join Now Order OnlineJANM will honor the 20% discount for online orders placed by current JANM Members at janmstore.com from November 29 – December 1, 2024. To receive the special discount, enter the code MADN...

  • 2024 Obata Art Weekend in Yosemite

    Aug 30, 2024 - Sep 01, 2024

    Join JANM at Obata Art Weekend in Yosemite National Park and celebrate the extraordinary life of Japanese American artist Chiura Obata, including his watercolor and woodblock prints of Yosemite and his writings on “Great Nature.” This weekend will include artist workshops, guest speakers, ranger talks, interactive art, and a special exhibition of Obata’s Yosemite works.All are welcome at this event but advanced reser...

  • J. T. Sata Exhibition: Curator Tour with Dennis Reed and Robert Hori

    Aug 17, 2024

    Join exhibition curator Dennis Reed and Robert Hori, associate director of Cultural Programs at the Huntington, for a walkthrough of JANM’s exhibition, J. T. Sata: Immigrant Modernist. The exhibition comprises sixty photographs by J. T. Sata, photographs of Sata’s concentration camp paintings and drawings, and family artifacts from camp. Reed will talk about Sata’s photography and legacy as well as the process of cur...

  • Author Discussion—"Nisei Naysayer: The Memoir of Militant Japanese American Journalist Jimmie Omura" by James Matsumoto Omura; edited by Arthur A. Hansen

    Aug 25, 2018

    If you missed the program, you can watch it online on JANM’s YouTube channel. The late journalist James "Jimmie" Omura was among the fiercest opponents of the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. In his sharply written columns, Omura called out leaders in the Nikkei community for what he saw as their complicity with the US government’s unjust and unconstitutional policie...

  • Big Trouble in Little Tokyo presents "The Curse of Quon Gwon: When the Far East Mingles with the West" (1916-17)

    May 13, 2015

    In honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, JANM presents a rare screening of The Curse of Quon Gwon: When the Far East Mingles with the West (1916–17), a silent black-and-white film directed by Marion Wong. The Curse of Quon Gwon is the earliest known film directed by an Asian American, and one of the earliest directed by a woman. Reflecting the filmmaker’s desire to present authentic Chinese culture t...

  • "Because they might be a threat..." Memories of the Children's Village at Manzanar

    Jan 14, 2007

    On June 23, 1942, forty orphans arrived at Manzanar. By the time the camp closed, more than sixty joined their ranks. As assistant superintendent, Lillian Matsumoto oversaw the operation of the facility and care of the orphans. Now in her nineties, Matsumoto shares her memories in a very special program that includes her daughter, Karyl Matsumoto, and oral historian, Greg Marutani. Reservations recommended. This p...

  • "Common Ground: The Japanese American National Museum and the Culture of Collaborations"

    May 15, 2005

    This collection of essays outlines how the National Museum operates in collaboration with other institutions, museums, researchers, audiences, and funders. Authors will speak on their case studies which explore collaboration with community-oriented partners in order to document, interpret, and present their histories and experiences and provide a new understanding of what museums can and should be in the United State...

  • "An Introduction to The History and Practice of Taiko"

    Feb 15, 2005

    In advance of the exhibition Big Drum: Taiko in the United States (opening July 2005), musician, Yuta Kato will lead an eight-week course to give students a historical and practical approach to learning taiko. Early reservations are recommended due to limited space. Course fees are $100 for National Museum Members and $125 for non-members. Participants must be at least 16 years old.

  • U.S. Government Appropriates Federal Funds To Establish National Center For The Preservation Of Democracy At Japanese American National Museum

    Oct 17, 2000

    The Japanese American National Museum and the Chairman of its Board of Governors, The Honorable Daniel K. Inouye, United States Senator from Hawai‘i, announced today the appropriation of $20 million in federal funds to establish the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy which will be affiliated with the National Museum in Los Angeles. The new National Center will be headquartered in the National Museum’...

  • Slide Presentation and Book Party—"Topaz Moon: Chiura Obata’s Art of the Internment"

    Jun 24, 2000

    Featuring: Kimi Kodani Hill Join Kimi Kodani Hill as she discusses the art and lives of her grandparents, Chiura, an artist and professor at UC Berkeley, and Haruko Obata, who created art during their incarceration in Tanforan and Topaz, Utah. The Obatas are also the parents of Gyo Obata, architect of the National Museum’s Pavilion.