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  • Imagine Little Tokyo 2023 Short Story Editing Workshop

    Jan 19, 2023

    FREE Oscar-nominated screenwriter and debut novelist Iris Yamashita and veteran writer and editor Gary Phillips will host an interactive, virtual workshop with tips on how to polish a short story before submission. Miya Iwataki, co-chair of the Imagine Little Tokyo short story committee will moderate the workshop. Iris Yamashita, Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Letters from Iwojima, released her debut novel, City ...

  • Nima Voices: Episode 9—Greg Robinson

    Jul 12, 2022

    Nima Voices is an interview series where we uplift our Nima through brief, but enlightening, interviews. In the ninth episode, Greg Robinson, a noted author and scholar of Japanese American and Japanese Canadian history, will be interviewed by guest host Lisa Doi, a curatorial assistant at the Japanese American National Museum and a PhD Student in American Studies at Indiana University. Greg has been contribut...

  • Virtual Artist Talk—Inspired by Miné

    Jan 29, 2022

    EVENT UPDATE Due to the rapidly increasing COVID-19 infection rates in Los Angeles County due to the Omicron variant, this program will now be held virtually. The safety of our community is of paramount importance to us, as is our obligation as a public institution to do our part to support efforts to inhibit the spread of the COVID-19 virus. We will continue to monitor public health guidelines and reassess a...

  • Setsuko’s Secret: Transformational Stories

    Oct 21, 2021

    FREE RSVP TO ATTEND IN PERSON CLICK TO WATCH THE LIVESTREAM Please join for an exciting conversation about Setsuko’s Secret: Heart Mountain and the Legacy of the Japanese American Incarceration. Author Shirley Ann Higuchi, J.D., chair of the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation, will share her painful transformational journey researching and writing about her family’s history and the Japanese American incar...

  • Nisei Radicals with Diane Fujino, Ron Fujiyoshi & Miya Sommers

    Jun 05, 2021

    Join author Diane Fujino, activist-minister Ron Fujiyoshi, and community organizer Miya Sommers in a conversation around Fujino’s newest book, Nisei Radicals: The Feminist Poetics and Transformative Ministry of Mitsuye Yamada and Michael Yasutake. Fujiyoshi, a long time friend of Yasutake, will share on his experiences working alongside Yasutake with a shared “jubilee liberation praxis.” Sommers will provide...

  • Art Break: Clay! with Ako Castuera

    May 25, 2021

    Ako Castuera’s sculptural work is informed by the diverse cultural and environmental features of Southern California, on Tongva Land, where she was born and currently lives. Ako’s sculptural work is a material exploration which draws on mythmaking to give body to personal and global histories, incorporating a variety of mediums including locally gathered and commercial clay, neighborhood yard trimmings, compost, yarn...

  • Building & Bridging (Part I): Bridging Japanese American and Japanese Corporations

    Feb 02, 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 the p...

  • Members Only Meet-and-Greet with Naomi Hirahara and Kathleen Burkinshaw

    Aug 15, 2020

    All members are invited to meet authors Naomi Hirahara and Kathleen Burkinshaw for a virtual Members Only Meet-and-Greet before our authors talk at 12 p.m. (PDT). Naomi Hirahara is an Edgar Award-winning mystery writer, social historian, and a former editor of The Rafu Shimpo. Kathleen Burkinshaw is a Japanese American author of The Last Cherry Blossom, a United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs Resource for ...

  • JANM AWARDED NEH GRANT TO FUND 2021 WORKSHOPS FOR TEACHERS ON ‘LITTLE TOKYO: HOW HISTORY SHAPES COMMUNITY ACROSS GENERATIONS’

    Aug 10, 2020

    Los Angeles, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) is proud to announce that it is a recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to fund two Landmarks of American History and Culture teachers’ workshops in the summer of 2021 under a new educational initiative, Little Tokyo: How History Shapes Community Across Generations. NEH awarded JANM a grant of $172,445 to fund two we...

  • Film Screening—Never Give Up! Minoru Yasui and the Fight for Justice

    Feb 22, 2020

    Never Give Up! tells the story of Minoru (Min) Yasui, son of Japanese immigrant parents, born in 1916, and raised in the farming community of Hood River, Oregon. He was the first Japanese American attorney in Oregon, and during World War II, he initiated the first legal test challenging the forced removal from the West Coast and subsequent incarceration of over 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry in US concentration...