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  • The Japanese American National Museum Receives $503,877 from Two Japanese American Confinement Sites Grants

    Dec 02, 2022

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) has received $327,974 for Preserving America’s Community Treasures (PACT): The Toyo Miyatake Collection and $175,903 for Eating Together: Food in Japanese America, two grants from the Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) Grant Program. The $327,974 JACS grant for Preserving America’s Community Treasures (PACT): The Toyo Miyatake Collection will ...

  • Japanese American in New York: Nikkei Trans-regional Dialogue

    Dec 05, 2020

    Telling the lesser-known history of Nikkei on the East Coast—a community vastly different from West Coast Japanese Americans—author-historian, consultant, and attorney Daniel H. Inouye explores the unique stories of a divided community of Japanese New Yorkers before World War II. Through a wealth of primary sources, including oral histories, memoirs, newspapers, government documents, photographs, and more, h...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Author Discussion – "Thirty Minutes Over Oregon: A Japanese Pilot’s World War II Story" by Marc Nobleman

    Feb 29, 2020

    Hiroshima. Dresden. London. Brookings? Americans know the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, as one of the most infamous events of World War II. However, few on either side know that Japan also bombed mainland America—twice. Navy pilot Nobuo Fujita launched a seaplane off a submarine—via catapult—and hit the woods outside the town of Brookings, Oregon. No one was killed or even hurt, but all involved wer...

  • Tea & Letter Writing: gathering in relaxation, expression & conversation

    Nov 07, 2019

    Do you miss the art of letter writing? Would you like the opportunity to write a letter to the future of Little Tokyo or to a future stakeholder of this community? Gather with us in a relaxed atmosphere to share tea and conversation and write letters—with plenty of prompts provided by traci kato-kiriyama, former Little Tokyo +LAB Artist-in-Residence at JANM. Come write about your hopes and dreams for the future of...

  • 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...