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  • Japanese Cooking for Beginners with Azusa Oda: Chirashi zushi

    Feb 27, 2021

    $25 general $20 member In this interactive workshop with cookbook author and designer, Azusa Oda, you will learn how to cook chirashi zushi (sushi rice topped with vegetables, egg, and fish) in celebration of Girl’s Day in Japan! Girl’s Day, also known as Doll’s Day or Hinamatsuri, is celebrated on March 3rd and often involves parties where people share this delicious and portable dish. You will be sent the ingr...

  • Virtual Open House for Educators

    May 26, 2020

    FREE Join us for a brief orientation to the education resources available to you digitally through JANM. This quick, 30-minute webinar and Q&A will provide an overview of new and existing educational resources including video tutorials, lessons and curriculum, activities, and more. Connect with the Education Unit, get answers to any questions you have, and learn how JANM can support your work as an educat...

  • REFLECTIONS/REFRACTIONS—Ten Works Inspired by "At First Light"

    Sep 19, 2019

    FREE An ad man coined the phrase “a picture is worth a thousand words” in the 1920s to emphasize the power of graphics to compel the viewer to adopt an idea or buy a product. But a picture can also be the springboard for new interpretations and the reimagination of the physical object, people, or places depicted. In that spirit, we reached out to ten literary arts practitioners to visit the At First Light: The...

  • What "IS" a Concentration Camp?

    Jul 11, 2019

    SOLD OUT FREE, but RSVPs are required During World War II, Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from their homes on the West Coast of the United States and incarcerated in remote camps in the nation’s interior. Their only crime was being of Japanese ancestry. For many years, the incarcerees and their descendants have struggled with the correct terminology to describe what happened during the war, b...

  • Before They Were Heroes at California Museum (Sacramento, CA)

    Jan 22, 2019 - Mar 17, 2019

    TRAVELING EXHIBITION California Museum Sacramento, CA Susumu “Sus” Ito’s WWII photographs were taken while on a tour of duty through Europe as a member of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team’s 522nd Field Artillery Battalion. While Ito participated in such dramatic events as the rescue of the Lost Battalion, these rare and breathtaking images capture the humble daily lives of a group of young Japanese Am...

  • JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM STATEMENT ON READER LETTER PUBLISHED BY LOS ANGELES TIMES

    Dec 06, 2018

    Los Angeles, CA—Two years ago, the Los Angeles Times published two letters that attempted to justify the forced removal and unlawful incarceration of 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry in the Western United States during World War II. After appropriate outcry from other readers and leaders in the Japanese American community—including the Japanese American National Museum—the newspaper’s then publisher and editor-in-...

  • JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM STATEMENT IN RESPONSE TO INTERIOR SECRETARY RYAN ZINKE’S COMMENT TO REP. COLLEEN HANABUSA

    Mar 17, 2018

    Los Angeles, CA—The Japanese American National Museum is profoundly disappointed by the insulting treatment of Hawaii Representative Colleen Hanabusa by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. By flippantly responding in Japanese to her impassioned plea for the continued funding of the Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) grant program, Secretary Zinke demonstrated a shocking level of insensitivity and cultural ignoranc...

  • "Moving Day" program presented by LTHS

    Jun 15, 2017

    FREE Each night through August 11, from sunset to midnight, Moving Day presents outdoor projections of Civilian Exclusion Order posters, which were issued during World War II to inform persons of Japanese ancestry of their impending forced removal and incarceration. The date of each projection will coincide with the original issue date of the order being projected. Projections take place on the façade of the museu...

  • 'FIGHTING FOR DEMOCRACY' TRAVELING EXHIBITION TO BE INSTALLED AT MUSEUM

    May 12, 2011

    The Japanese American National Museum will bring home its innovative, educational traveling exhibition, Fighting for Democracy: Who is the “We” in “We, the People”?, as its seventh stop of a national 10-city tour by installing it at the National Museum beginning May 28. Originally created to highlight the stories of seven diverse individuals and their service to their country during World War II, Fighting for Demo...

  • 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...