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  • Breakfast & Ballots (Cal Matters)

    Oct 01, 2024

    Do you have questions about the election? How does Prop 5 make it easier for local governments to borrow money? Why would Prop 36 partly roll back another proposition that voters approved in 2014? Join Dan Hu and CalMatters as they analyze and answer your burning questions about this year’s ballot propositions in a conversation around the latest edition of their Voter Guide. This event is free and open to all. Contin...

  • Beauty from Hardship

    Sep 14, 2024

    Beauty from Hardship: Storytelling, Art, and Japanese American Resilience Then and NowDiscover how literature, music, dance, and the visual arts capture and make the richness and resilience of the Japanese American community possible with Professor erin Khuê Ninh, Professor Diane C. Fujino, Professor Kim Yasuda, and authors Constance Hays Matsumoto and Kent Matsumoto. Revolving around the themes of hardship and beau...

  • Discover Nikkei’s Nima Voices: Episode 16—Stan Kirk

    Jun 25, 2024

    Discover Nikkei is JANM’s community-based web project sharing stories and the experiences of Nikkei around the world. “Nima” are members of the Discover Nikkei online community. Hailing from all around the world, they each bring unique experiences and perspectives to the site’s rich archive of stories.Nima Voices is an interview series where we uplift our Nima through brief and enlightening interviews. In the sixtee...

  • Over 45 New Collections Debut on JANM’s Website

    Jun 25, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA –The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) announces that over forty-five collections from the Museum’s permanent collection are digitized and available at janm.org. The work is made possible by grants from the National Park Service’s Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) grant program, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), the Institute Museum Library Services (IMLS) and th...

  • "A Principled Stand: The Story of Hirabayashi v. United States" by Gordon K. Hirabayashi with James A. Hirabayashi and Lane Ryo Hirabayashi

    Sep 21, 2013

    In 1942, University of Washington student Gordon Hirabayashi defied the curfew and mass removal of Japanese Americans on the West Coast, and was subsequently convicted and imprisoned. In A Principled Stand, Gordon's brother James and nephew Lane have brought together his prison diaries and wartime correspondence to tell the story of Hirabayashi v. United States. A Principled Stand tells Gordon's story in his own word...

  • "Twice Heroes: America’s Nisei Veterans of WWII and Korea" by Tom Graves

    May 04, 2013

    Writer and photographer Tom Graves will discuss and read from his new book, Twice Heroes: America's Nisei Veterans of WWII and Korea. Graves spent over a decade interviewing and photographing men and women who served to prove their loyalty to America. The veterans shared their own histories with the author, many revealing their experiences for the first time. Q&A with author to follow. Purchase the book from t...

  • "From Minidoka to Minnesota: A Carleton College Story of the Japanese American Internment" by Fred Hagstrom

    Jul 23, 2011

    This talk focuses on an artist’s book recently completed by Fred Hagstrom, Rae Schupak Nathan Professor of Art at Carleton College in Minnesota. The artist’s book is titled deeply honored and tells the story of Frank Shigemura, who came to Carleton College in 1943. Carleton participated in the student relocation project, a program that allowed Japanese American students to leave internment camps and continue th...

  • Closing of the Henry Fukuhara Manzanar Watercolor Workshop display in the National Museum Pavilion

    Aug 18, 2002

    Closing of the Henry Fukuhara Manzanar Watercolor Workshop display in the National Museum Pavilion

  • Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Tsumami Zaiku (traditional Japanese hair ornaments made of silk)

    Sep 22, 2001

    Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Tsumami Zaiku (traditional Japanese hair ornaments made of silk)

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

    Hear from Emily Anderson, JANM’s curator for Don’t Fence Me In, and incarcerees from the War Relocation Authority camps as they share how Japanese American youth asserted their place as young Americans confronting the injustice of imprisonment in concentration camps. From joining scout troops to sports, social dancing to music, patriotism and life after camp, discover how these Americans used their resilience and...