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  • Building & Bridging (Part II): Building Relationships into the Future

    Feb 12, 2021

    FREE Japanese corporations and Japanese American communities have a long and complex history that weaves together stories of immigration, industrial expansion, and the building of neighborhoods, businesses, and banks. With a focus on Los Angeles, this two part program brings together speakers that represent a broad spectrum of Japanese corporations in the U.S. and Japanese American communities to discuss ...

  • 2020 JACSC Education Conference: Connecting, Empowering, & Transforming Our Communities

    Oct 17, 2020 - Oct 18, 2020

    FREE Please join the Japanese American Confinement Sites Consortium (JACSC) for the first virtual JACSC education conference. Founded on the idea that we are stronger together than on our own, JACSC aims to bring together practitioners in preservation, education, and advocacy related to the Japanese American experience. This free opportunity includes educational sessions and inspiring conversations with our nat...

  • JANM Digital Film Festival: Madame Fujima Kansuma Q&A

    Jun 26, 2020

    FREE Madame Fujima Kansuma shares the life of the celebrated Japanese American kabuki dancer and teacher with a career beginning in the early 1940s and spanning decades. Join filmmaker Yuka Murakami for a discussion around the legacy of Madame Kansuma with Madame Kansuma’s daughter, Miyako Tachibana, and longtime student, June Berk, who were both featured in the film produced for a celebration of Kansuma’s ...

  • Anti-Asian Racism Past & Present / Our Hopes for the Future

    May 28, 2020

    FREE During this global pandemic, we hear reports of attacks on Asians and Asian Americans across the country. We are confronted by cycles of blame and fear on those who are perceived to be from China. Asian Americans young and old fear leaving their houses while masked. We also see Asians and Asian Americans speaking out against hate and violence, as well as communities of color rising up with mutual aid effo...

  • VIRTUAL TALK: Contested Histories on the Road with Clement Hanami

    Apr 30, 2020

    Dive into the experience of traveling across the country with the Contested Histories: Art and Artifacts from the Allen Hendershott Eaton Collection special display, from program developer and curator Clement Hanami in this live presentation and Q&A! Allen Hendershott Eaton’s historic 1952 book, Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps, explored art and craft objects crea...

  • Memory Crafting: How Do We Remember the Unspeakable, A Yonsei Perspective

    Mar 07, 2020

    SOLD OUT FREE Our community and cultural institutions, researchers, family members, artists, and many others have created priceless archives of Japanese American history. The effort to preserve, with tremendous contributions from many generations in our community, have given Yonsei, Gosei, and future generations important resources to learn and understand our community history, especially surrounding incarcerat...

  • At First Site

    Aug 15, 2019

    FREE 6 p.m.: Reception 7 p.m.: Program See the historic heart of Little Tokyo—First Street North—through the eyes of artists and activists. Join us for a performance and the screening of two short documentaries about Little Tokyo’s resilient history of fighting displacement and why many call it home, including the West Coast premiere screening of Ken Honjo and Kuniharu Yoshida’s First Street North and Visual C...

  • Tatau at the Immigration Museum (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)

    May 24, 2019 - Oct 06, 2019

    TRAVELING EXHIBITION Immigration Museum Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Web: museumsvictoria.com.au/immigrationmuseum Phone: 13 11 02 Outside Australia: +61 3 8341 7777 Tatau: Marks of Polynesia explores the beauty of Samoan tattoos as well as the key role they play in the preservation and propagation of Samoan culture. Through photographs taken in the studio and on location in Samoa and elsewhere...

  • ZÓCALO—Can Individuals Be Happy in an Unhappy Time?

    Dec 12, 2018

    A Zócalo/UCLA Anderson Event at JANM’s National Center for the Preservation of Democracy Moderated by Warren Olney, Host, KCRW’s "To the Point" The pursuit of happiness is foundational to the United States, and happiness has become an international obsession as nations seek to measure happiness and enact policies to increase it. But this is also an era of disruption, dislocation, and great unhappiness...

  • Film Screening & Panel Discussion: Beate Sirota Gordon: Women's Rights and the Constitution of Japan

    May 16, 2010

    Beate Sirota Gordon The Visionary Leader Who Introduced Women’s Rights to Japan To Speak about her Fight for Equal Rights Beate Sirota Gordon, who worked under General Douglas MacArthur to help draft Japan’s Constitution, will discuss her own personal experiences and her advocacy for equal rights for Japanese women. Come and hear her first and only appearance in Los Angeles. 11 AM –12:30 PM Film Screening: Sirota...