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  • Sutra and Bible Upper Level Members & VIP Reception

    Apr 02, 2022

    Members at the Director's Circle Level and above are invited to a VIP Reception of Sutra and Bible: Faith and the Japanese American World War II Incarceration. See an array of astonishing artifacts: from the prayer books and religious scrolls they carried into camp, to the Buddha statues, crosses, and altars they handcrafted to keep their spirits alive. Evites were sent in early March. By invitation only. Contact ...

  • Nima Voices: Episode 8—Laura Honda-Hasegawa

    Mar 15, 2022

    Free [Language: Portuguese] Discover Nikkei is JANM’s 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, ...

  • 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...

  • COVID-19 Community Heroes: Taiji Terasaki and Kristin Fukushima

    Jun 20, 2020

    FREE Artist Taiji Terasaki will join us from his studio in Hawai‘i to discuss his latest project, Transcendients: COVID-19 Community Heroes, in which he is highlighting unsung heroes who are working tirelessly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Kristin Fukushima, Managing Director of the Little Tokyo Community Council, will be participating in the program from Los Angeles’s Little Tokyo. Fukushima helped found Commu...

  • 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-...

  • 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 Visual Communications

    Apr 20, 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...

  • DOCUMENTARY ON PIONEER CONGRESSWOMAN PATSY MINK TO SCREEN OCT. 30

    Oct 23, 2010

    "Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority", an award-winning documentary that chronicles the life of pioneer Congresswoman Patsy Mink, will be screened on Saturday, Oct. 30, at 2 p.m. at the Japanese American National Museum. Mink, the first woman of color to be elected to Congress in 1965, spent her life fighting racial and gender discrimination and left a lasting legacy with her authoring of the Title IX legislation th...