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  • Tea & Letter Writing: care for the kids

    Jun 09, 2021

    Gather with us in the comfort of your own home to share tea and conversation! This month we will be exploring self and community love through creative prompts provided by traci kato-kiriyama, former Little Tokyo +LAB Artist-in-Residence at JANM, and Mya Worrell, zine maker and writer. We will also be taking time to write letters of support and affirmation to migrant children currently held in influx facilities in Pom...

  • Family History Workshop: Genealogy for All Ages!

    Dec 12, 2020

    Learn how to do genealogical research, even while physically distanced, with family members of all ages! We’ll highlight activities you can do with children—particularly those engaged in distance learning—to help your family stay connected. Find creative ways to share your family stories across generations and how to get started with your genealogical research from home. This workshop will be led by Marisa Louie L...

  • Virtual Kokoro 2020

    Nov 14, 2020 - Nov 30, 2020

    The 12th Annual Kokoro Craft Boutique is going virtual this year! From November 14–30, shoppers can shop online or by phone with many familiar crafters, plus some new ones. A video featuring many of our talented crafters talking about their beautiful, hand-crafted products, as well as photos from all our participating crafter/vendors will be posted on YouTube.com/janmdotorg starting on Saturday, November 14. VE...

  • Discover Nikkei’s Nima Voices: Episode 1—Chuck Tasaka

    Oct 27, 2020

    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. We are thrilled to be launching “Nima Voices,” a series where we uplift our Nima through brief,...

  • 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...

  • ZÓCALO—How Will the New Supreme Court Change America?

    Dec 18, 2018

    A Zócalo/UCLA Downtown Event at JANM’s National Center for the Preservation of Democracy Moderated by Jess Bravin, Supreme Court Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal It’s age-old wisdom: Every single new justice creates a brand-new US Supreme Court. But some legal scholars are suggesting that the court taking shape now, with a conservative majority established by President Trump’s second appo...

  • 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-...

  • The Words We Hold

    Dec 01, 2018

    If you missed the program, you can watch it online on JANM’s YouTube channel. FREE Stories of World War II, hailing from both sides of the Pacific, paint a picture of how Japanese and Japanese American ancestors experienced everyday life during those treacherous times. Yonsei Nicole Cherry and Kristen Hayashi, and shin-Nikkei Ayumi Nagata and Natsumi Shibata will share personal family stories pa...

  • 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...

  • '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...