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  • Origami with Ruthie Kitagawa: Floral Cards

    Sep 29, 2018

    Learn from JANM’s resident origami expert Ruthie Kitagawa how to make a card adorned with cheerful origami flowers. Space is limited to 15 participants. Advance purchase of a ticket is required. $12 non-members, free for JANM members. Museum admission included. This workshop is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs. In the Nancy K. A...

  • ZOCALO—Can U.S. Democracy Survive Russian Information Warfare?

    Sep 14, 2018

    A Zócalo/Japanese American National Museum Event at JANM’s National Center for the Preservation of Democracy Moderated by Warren Olney, Host, KCRW’s "To the Point" American intelligence services have unanimously concluded that the Russian government intervened in the 2016 US elections, and seeks to meddle again this fall. One of Russia’s methods was to use social media to distribute disinformation. ...

  • Memorial for Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombings

    Aug 04, 2018 - Aug 09, 2018

    Saturday–Thursday, August 4–9 Admission on Saturday, August 4: Pay What You Wish In commemoration of the World War II atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which occurred on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively, we will feature Yoko Ono’s Imagine Peace Wish Tree. Participants can write down their personal wishes for peace on a piece of paper that they tie to the tree. At the end of the commemoration, the ...

  • JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM STATEMENT REGARDING GORDON HIRABAYASHI CASE AS PRECEDENT FOR GUANTANAMO POLICY

    Jun 20, 2018

    Los Angeles, CA—The Japanese American National Museum is shocked and outraged that attorneys for the Department of Defense have cited the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II as a precedent for the administration’s current policies. In this instance, the Supreme Court’s 1943 ruling in Hirabayashi v. United States has been presented as a rationale for the Defense Department’s efforts to prevent a pr...

  • Before They Were Heroes at Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA)

    May 03, 2017 - Jun 26, 2017

    TRAVELING EXHIBITION Harvard Medical School Boston, MA 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 A...

  • East West Players: A Writers' Gallery Reading

    Mar 23, 2017

    FREE East West Players presents a reading of June is the First Fall, written by Yilong Liu and directed by Jeff Liu. After a painful breakup, a Chinese American gay man returns home to Hawaii, where he must confront his sister, his father, and himself about an unspeakable past that separated them, and a tender family history that held them together. Inspired by a portrait of Afong Moy, the first Chinese ...

  • JANM Summer Night Concerts—Electronic and Hip Hop Night

    Aug 18, 2016

    FREE Join us for an evening of electronic and hip hop music with Asian and Pacific Islander American performers. The featured headliner tonight is Dumbfoundead, a Korean American rapper straight out of LA’s Koreatown. Called a "walking bag of charisma" by genius.com, Dumbfoundead has appeared on Last Call with Carson Daly and counts Drake among his fans. Also featured are Year of the Ox, an APIA rap duo ...

  • Sadako’s Crane

    May 31, 2016 - Aug 31, 2019

    Born in Hiroshima, Japan, Sadako Sasaki was two years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on the city. When she was twelve, she contracted leukemia and was hospitalized. One of her roommates at the hospital told her about the Japanese belief that anyone who folds one thousand cranes would be granted a wish, so Sadako began folding cranes with the hope of recovering from her disease. Sadly, although she folded 1,300 ...

  • K-12 Teachers’ Workshop—Legacy Voices: The World War II Japanese American Experience

    Sep 19, 2015

    FREE for K-12 teachers This unique professional development opportunity will explore the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II through local and national stories. The training will focus on national civil rights hero Fred T. Korematsu, the “assembly centers” of California, and the personal accounts of those affected by the incarceration experience. The workshop will also inc...

  • NATIONAL MUSEUM RECOGNIZES ORIGINAL FOUNDERS AT 2010 ANNUAL GALA DINNER

    Jun 03, 2010

    The Japanese American National Museum marked its 25th Anniversary since its incorporation in 1985 at its 2010 Annual Gala Dinner, "25 Years & Beyond: Celebrating the Spirit of Our Community", with special recognition going to the original founders of the institution in activities at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel before almost 1,100 supporters. Founding President Bruce Kaji spoke on behalf of the early volu...