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  • Members Only Meet and Greet with Daniel James Brown

    May 14, 2022

    FREE for members In Person RSVP Virtual RSVP Join for an exclusive conversation for JANM members with New York Times bestselling author of The Boys on the Boat, Daniel James Brown, and the Executive Director of Densho, Tom Ikeda. This program is FREE for all members, but RSVPs are required in advance at the link below, by email to memberevents@janm.org, or phone at 213.830.5646 by Friday, May 13th. Spac...

  • Author Discussion—Clark and Division by Naomi Hirahara

    Aug 07, 2021

    Join Naomi Hirahara, Edgar Award-winning author of Clark and Division, for a virtual conversation and Q&A on blending history and fiction in this powerful new mystery. $ 10 General / FREE for JANM Members About the Book: Chicago, 1944: Twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar, where they have been detained by the US government since the aftermath of Pearl Ha...

  • Discover Nikkei’s Nima Voices: Episode 3—Tamiko Nimura

    Mar 02, 2021

    FREE Discover Nikkei is JANM’s international community-based web project sharing stories and the experiences of Nikkei around the world. “Nima” are members of the Discover Nikkei online community. Hailing from all around the world, they each bring unique experiences and perspectives to the site’s rich archive of stories. “Nima Voices” is an interview series where we uplift our Nima through brief, but enlig...

  • Fighting for Democracy

    Aug 10, 2019 - Jan 05, 2020

    We, the people, shape democracy; I, too, can shape democracy; Those who have struggled for freedom and equality have extended democracy’s reach for all. Fighting for Democracy: Who is the “We” in “We, the People”? is an experimental exhibition based on these fundamental principles. It features seven real people and traces their stories throughout the pre-war, World War II, and post-war periods as examples of th...

  • "Sashiko" and "Boro" Traditions Workshop

    Mar 17, 2019

    SOLD OUT In this one-day workshop led by Glennis Dolce, we will be mending and creatively reusing the fabrics of our lives using sashiko stitching to make a cloth that can be used as a scarf, a wall hanging, or used for making some other useful item of your choice. The concepts of mottainai (don’t waste!) and mu kara yuu o umo (out of nothing, something is born) as it relates to boro textiles (tattered and sti...

  • Contested Histories at Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center (Portland, OR)

    Nov 01, 2018 - Nov 04, 2018

    TRAVELING DISPLAYOregon Nikkei Legacy CenterPortland, ORIncluded with museum admissionThursday: 11 a.m.–7 p.m. • FREEFriday–Saturday: 11 a.m.–3 p.m.Sunday: 12 p.m.–3 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 Am...

  • Why Is the Modern World So Angry?

    Mar 01, 2018

    American mass shooters. Islamic terrorists. Vengeful nationalists. Racist presidents. Social media misogynists. In today’s world, paranoid hatred—and the wrath of the people who spread it—is inescapable. Where does all the rage come from? Join Zocalo and JANM at the Tateuchi Democracy Forum for a discussion with Panjak Mishra, author of Age of Anger: A History of the Present for a discussion moderated by Gregory R...

  • "Moving Day"

    May 01, 2017 - Aug 11, 2017

    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 posted during World War II to inform persons of Japanese ancestry of their impending forced removal...

  • "Moving Day"

    Apr 01, 2017 - Aug 11, 2017

    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 posted during World War II to inform persons of Japanese ancestry of their impending forced removal...

  • ‘TRANSFORMING A FORGOTTEN STORY’ THEME FOR NATIONAL MUSEUM'S 2012 ANNUAL DINNER ON MAY 5

    Dec 21, 2011

    The Japanese American National Museum announced that its theme for its 2012 Annual Gala Dinner will be "Transforming a Forgotten Story", highlighting the evolution of the Japanese American World War II story from being forgotten to being shared internationally. Ceremonies are set for Saturday, May 5, 2012, at the J.W. Marriott Hotel at L.A. LIVE and will include the presentation of the Museum’s Distinguished Medal of...