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  • Two Day Workshop: Shibori and Indigo Explorations

    Nov 09, 2024 - Nov 10, 2024

    Unleash your creativity with indigo and shibori! Taught by Glennis Dolce, this workshop will explore traditional Japanese fabric dyeing techniques, including stitching, clamping, binding, and pole wrapping. Various shibori techniques will be presented and practiced—arashi, nui, itajime, yanagi, tekumo, and more!This workshop is limited to fifteen participants and is open to all levels of knowledge. All tools and a ma...

  • Imagine Little Tokyo Writing Workshop with Susan Ito and Naomi Hirahara

    Jan 13, 2024

    Participants were able to join award-winning authors Susan Kiyo Ito and Naomi Hirahara for an interactive writing workshop! Participants learned tips and got advice for writing short stories that they can submit to the eleventh annual Imagine Little Tokyo short story contest. Participants were also welcomed to sign up for a Little Tokyo walking tour with Little Tokyo Historical Society members, preceding the ...

  • Conversations on Race: Opening the Dialogue

    Dec 01, 2023

    The opening summit for Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past in Los Angeles will convene speakers for discussions on the topics of Race and Wealth, Race and Wellness, and Race and Arts. Participants are invited to explore the exhibition The Bias Inside Us, an interactive project about the science and history of bias and what people can do about it.

  • Book Launch — THE GOLDEN SCREEN: The Movies that Made Asian America

    Nov 02, 2023

    Join New York Times bestselling author, Jeff Yang, and other special guests for the launch of Yang’s newest book, The Golden Screen: The Movies that Made Asian America. The past decade has been a groundbreaking era for Asian-centric storytelling in Hollywood films. The Golden Screen celebrates and examines the history of Asian Americans on the big screen, exploring how iconic films have shaped Hollywood, representati...

  • Nima Voices: Episode 13—Alden Hayashi

    Jun 20, 2023

    FREE 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, but enlightening, intervie...

  • Defining Courage

    Mar 18, 2023

    Tickets to this event are now sold out. ONE NIGHT ONLY—Saturday, March 18, 2023 at 7 p.m. (HST) at The Hawaii Theatre, 1130 Bethel St, Honolulu, HI. Celebrate the legacy of True American Heroes in Defining Courage, an unforgettable live event. Considered the greatest fighting unit in US military history, the Nisei Soldiers of World War II were a segregated combat team of Americans of Japanese Ancestry. Sadly,...

  • The Japanese American National Museum Welcomes Decision by the Los Angeles Times to Drop “Internment”

    Mar 17, 2023

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) welcomes the decision by the Los Angeles Times to stop using the euphemism “internment” to describe the unjust incarceration of over 125,000 Japanese Americans and their families during World War II. On the 75th anniversary of Executive Order 9066, the newspaper’s editorial board published an apology for being an advocate of Japanese American incarcer...

  • TRANSCENDIENTS: Heroes at Borders A Contemporary Art Exhibit by Taiji Terasaki

    Jan 21, 2020

    Los Angeles, CA–Celebrated multi-media artist Taiji Terasaki is hard at work on his next exhibition at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM), in remembrance of the 78th anniversary of Japanese American concentration camps in World War II. On February 19,1942 President Roosevelt signed an executive order that authorized the unconstitutional incarceration of American citizens and residents. TRANSCENDIENTS: Heroe...

  • Cold Tofu Improv, "The Soy of Sex"

    Feb 27, 2002

    It's back! The show where Cold Tofu explores love, relationships, and the opposite sex through improv.

  • Harsh Canvas: The Art and Life of Henry Sugimoto

    Jul 22, 2001

    Video Premiere Screening and Panel Discussion in New York Please see National Programs for more information