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  • 2022 Kokoro Craft Show

    Oct 30, 2022

    The Friends of the Japanese American National Museum invite you to the 14th annual Kokoro Craft Show! Fifty-six vendors will be selling hand-painted apparel, apparel for babies, kids, and pets, framed art, bronze sculptures, ceramics, food, jewelry, gifts, glass art, shibori, stationery, embroidered towels, totes, origami, and MORE! Entrance to this in-person event is free (does not include Museum admission...

  • Holiday Tales with Stanley Hayami

    Dec 18, 2021 - Dec 19, 2021

    In this immersive experience, get transported back to the 1940s with actor Kurt Sanchez Kanazawa, the voice of Stanley Hayami in A Life in Pieces, as he reads aloud from the letters and diaries of Stanley. Diary entries and letters will be selected from his time during the winter holidays in the Heart Mountain concentration camp and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Please note there will be three similar readings...

  • 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...

  • "At First Light"—Opening Day Discussion

    May 25, 2019

    To commemorate the opening day of the exhibition At First Light: The Dawning of Asian Pacific America, JANM will host Visual Communications (VC) co-founders and exhibition curators Duane Kubo, Robert Nakamura, and Eddie Wong in a panel discussion about the history of VC and the creation of this show. They will be joined by scholar, author, producer, and JANM Chief Curator Karen Ishizuka, who will moderate 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...

  • Contested Histories at 2018 Minidoka Pilgrimage (Twin Falls, ID)

    Jul 06, 2018

    TRAVELING DISPLAY2018 Minidoka PilgrimageTwin Falls, ID9 a.m.–5 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 American concentration camps. It was one of the first books to examine any aspect of the lives of the 12...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • '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...