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Collecting and Preserving a Community’s History
Sep 23, 2021
FREE Do you have objects at home that you think belong in a community archive? Have you ever wondered about how items end up inside museums or displayed at historic sites? Learn how these institutions collect and maintain their historic collections, the challenges this type of work entails, and how people can help prepare their collections if they are interested in having them considered for intake. Hear...
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Post Election Discussion for Educators
Nov 10, 2020 - Nov 24, 2020
FREE The Education Unit of the Japanese American National Museum invites teachers and educators to an informal, virtual post-election discussion to respectfully share thoughts, questions, hopes and anxieties. How can we support our students as our democracy looks to the future in a climate of continued uncertainty and division? What does this look like in our teaching practice? These gatherings have no particular ...
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15th Annual Museums Free-for-All
Jan 25, 2020
FREE ADMISSION ALL DAY In an effort to make museums available to the broadest possible audience, JANM joins with more than 40 other regional museums in offering free admission on this day. Take advantage of free admission to come see Under a Mushroom Cloud: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Atomic Bomb and Common Ground: The Heart of Community. For a complete list of participating institutions, visit socalmuseum...
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Celebrating Japanese American Redress: A Promise for the Future
Aug 10, 2018
If you missed the program, you can watch it online on JANM’s YouTube channel. PAY WHAT YOU WISH In honor of the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, join us for an afternoon of reunion, reconnection, and reaffirmation of our commitment to democracy and justice. JANM President and CEO Ann Burroughs, GFBNEC President and CEO Dr. Mitchell T. Maki, and Ka...
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"Moving Day"
Mar 23, 2017 - Aug 11, 2017
If you missed the program, you can watch it online on JANM’s YouTube channel. March 23 – August 11, 2017 Daily from sunset to midnight In conjunction with the exhibition Instructions to All Persons: Reflections on Executive Order 9066, JANM presents Moving Day, an outdoor public art installation. The work consists of a series of projections of the Civilian Exclusion Orders that were publicly poste...
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Instructions to All Persons
Feb 18, 2017 - Aug 13, 2017
On February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which paved the way for the forced removal and incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast following Japan’s bombing of Pearl Harbor. To commemorate the 75th anniversary of this historic miscarriage of justice, the Japanese American National Museum presents Instructions to All Persons: Reflections on Executive Order 9066, an ed...
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'442: LIVE WITH HONOR, DIE WITH DIGNITY' FILM TO BE SCREENED AT NATIONAL MUSEUM NOV. 11
Nov 04, 2010
To mark the occasion of Veterans Day on Thursday, November 11, a special screening of the documentary, "442: Live with Honor, Die with Dignity", will be shown at 2 p.m. at the Japanese American National Museum. The film by Japanese director Junichi Suzuki presents the story of the all-Japanese American fighting unit, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team that served valiantly in Europe during World War II and earned ei...
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Wakaji Matsumoto
The Wakaji Matsumoto—An Artist in Two Worlds: Los Angeles and Hiroshima,1917–1944 online exhibition highlights the rare photographs of an Issei farmer turned photographer who captured the Japanese American community in Los Angeles and urban life in Hiroshima prior to the 1945 atomic bombing of the city. The Watase Media Arts Center produced these short videos narrated by exhibition curator Dennis Reed about Wakaji Ma...
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Sincerely Miné Okubo
Short biographical film on the artistic span and career of Miné Okubo, a Japanese American artist who is best known for her graphic memoir Citizen 13660 (1946), which chronicled her World War II incarceration. This film was produced in conjunction with the 2021 exhibition, Miné Okubo’s Masterpiece: The Art of Citizen 13660. Directed by Yuka Murakami 16 minutes This film is currently being presented at film...