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  • When Yuri Met Malcolm

    Oct 02, 2022

    FREE Join the East West Players Theater for Youth Tour for a performance and talkback of their play When Yuri Met Malcolm. This show is all ages (primary audience ages 11 and up).

  • Art Break: Drawing Life! with Rob Sato

    Jun 22, 2021

    Rob Sato is an artist, illustrator, and writer living and working in Los Angeles. Known for his watercolors and extensive drawing practice, he traverses a wide range of expression exploring the spaces between pictorial narrative and abstraction. Weaving autobiographical, historical, and fantastical imagery together, he mixes humor and beauty to create a wild, lush, and enigmatic dimension that overlays our own. He ha...

  • JANM Digital Film Festival: Big Drum: Taiko in the United States Q&A

    Jul 24, 2020

    FREE Tune in for a 15th anniversary celebration of the film, Big Drum: Taiko in the United States, and conversation with curator Sojin Kim and featured performers Kenny Endo (Kenny Endo Taiko Ensemble), Kay Fukumoto (Maui Taiko), Teddy Yoshikami (Soh Daiko), PJ Hirabayashi (Artistic Director Emeritus, San Jose Taiko), and more! Featuring America’s pioneering taiko figures, this film documents the developmen...

  • Film Screening and Q&A—"Sophie and the Rising Sun"

    Nov 16, 2019

    Set in the autumn of 1941 in Salty Creek, a fishing village in South Carolina, this film tells the dramatic story of interracial lovers swept up in the tides of history. As World War II rages, a wounded stranger, Mr. Ohta, appears in town under mysterious circumstances. Sophie, a native of Salty Creek, quickly becomes transfixed by Mr. Ohta and a forbidden courtship blossoms. When Pearl Harbor is bombed, a sur...

  • Contested Histories at Midwest Buddhist Temple (Chicago, IL)

    May 17, 2019

    TRAVELING DISPLAY Midwest Buddhist Temple Chicago, IL 10:45 a.m.–5 p.m. 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 created by persons of Japanese descent while wrongfully incarcerated in the World War II American concentration camps. It was one of the first books to examine any aspect of...

  • Contested Histories at Nihon Matsuri (Salt Lake City, UT)

    Apr 27, 2019

    TRAVELING DISPLAY Nihon Matsuri Salt Lake City, UT 10 a.m.–5 p.m 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 created by persons of Japanese descent while wrongfully incarcerated in the World War II American concentration camps. It was one of the first books to examine any aspect of the li...

  • Contested Histories at 2019 Jerome/Rohwer Pilgrimage (Little Rock, AR)

    Apr 12, 2019

    TRAVELING DISPLAY 2019 Jerome/Rohwer Pilgrimage Little Rock, AR 9 a.m.–6 p.m. Workshop: 10–10:30 a.m. (Pilgrimage dates: April 11–13) 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 created by persons of Japanese descent while wrongfully incarcerated in the World War II American concentrati...

  • 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...

  • Textured Lives: Japanese Immigrant Clothing from the Plantations of Hawai`i - JANM Store

    JANM members receive a 10% discount! Join or renew now

  • Only the Oaks Remain: The Story of Tuna Canyon Detention Station - Press

    For press inquiries, email mediarelations@janm.org or call 213.625.0414. Press Photo Gallery (Password Access Only—contact mediarelations@janm.org for access.)