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  • 9th Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest Virtual Celebration

    May 26, 2022

    FREE Marvel at the amazing and creative ways that writers can imagine Little Tokyo and expand the fictional boundaries of the Japanese American experience. Each year, the Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest heightens awareness of Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo by challenging both new and experienced writers to write a story that captures the spirit and essence of Little Tokyo and the people in it. In this virtu...

  • Hanashi Oral History Pop Up

    Sep 21, 2019

    FREE Come see a selection of Go For Broke National Education Center’s Hanashi (“to talk”) Oral Histories. GFBNEC has been recording interviews of Nisei veterans of World War II as well as their contemporaries in the armed forces for over twenty years. Stay for as many interviews as you like; this day-long opportunity does not have formal presentations or introductions. Presented in partnership with Go For Broke...

  • Crime and Policing—A Conversation Determined by You (SoCal Solutions)

    May 22, 2019

    FREE KPCC In Person is talking law enforcement, and you picked the topic. We started by inviting your questions on crime and public safety. We narrowed them to three, and you let us know what matters most by voting for the question you wanted as the focus of our conversation. The responses have been tallied, and the top vote-getter is focused on transparency in law enforcement. KPCC correspondent Frank Stolt...

  • Members Only Meet-and-Greet with Frank Abe and Greg Robinson

    Feb 02, 2019

    All members are invited to this exclusive reception with Frank Abe and Greg Robinson, editors of John Okada: The Life and Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy, prior to the discussion about the book at 2 p.m. Space is limited. RSVP by January 29 using the link below. You can also contact memberevents@janm.org or 213.830.5646.

  • Only the Oaks Remain

    Dec 10, 2016 - Apr 09, 2017

    Only the Oaks Remain: The Story of Tuna Canyon Detention Station tells the true stories of those targeted as dangerous enemy aliens and imprisoned in the Tuna Canyon Detention Station, located in the Tujunga neighborhood of Los Angeles, by the US Department of Justice during World War II. Photographs, letters, and diaries bring the experiences of prisoners—who included Japanese, German, and Italian immigrants and Jap...

  • A Samurai’s Life

    Oct 24, 2015

    In honor of Family History Month, UC Santa Barbara Professor of History Luke Roberts will present a lecture on the life of samurai Yoshiki Mori (1768–1807), who was a retainer for the Yamauchi lord of the Tosa domain. The talk will draw from Mori’s diary, his letters, and historical records, and will include a discussion of challenges faced by Roberts while researching samurai family history. Roberts is a speciali...

  • "Samurai Among Panthers: Richard Aoki on Race, Resistance, and a Paradoxical Life" by Diane C. Fujino

    Aug 04, 2012

    The first biography of Asian American activist and Black Panther Party member Richard Aoki An iconic figure of the Asian American Movement, Richard Aoki (1938-2009) was also, as the most prominent non-black member of the Black Panther Party, a key architect of Afro-Asian solidarity in the 1960s and 70s. His life story exposes the personal side of political activism as it illuminates the history of ethnic nationali...

  • 'THE PINK DRESS' PUPPET PERFORMANCE SET FOR NATIONAL MUSEUM DEC. 6

    Nov 21, 2008

    "The Pink Dress", a puppet-theatre performance done in a Japanese Bunraku style and based on a story of a Japanese American teenage girl’s experiences in the World War II domestic concentration camp at Amache, Colorado, will return to the Japanese American National Museum for a single performance on Saturday, Dec. 6, beginning at 2 p.m. The show is being produced by Triumvirate Pi Theatre (Tri-Pi Theatre). Last pr...

  • IKENOBO IKEBANA SOCIETY TO GIVE DEMONSTRATION AT NATIONAL MUSEUM JUNE 22

    Jun 18, 2008

    The Ikenobo Ikebana Society of Los Angeles, one of the three local Japanese flower arranging schools creating and maintaining installations as part of the Japanese American National Museum’s exhibition, Living Flowers: Ikebana and Contemporary Art, will give a demonstration on Sunday, June 22, beginning at 2 p.m., at the National Museum in Little Tokyo. Living Flowers is an innovative exhibition that features trad...

  • Sincerely Miné Okubo

    Short biographical film on the artistic span and career of Miné Okubo, a Japanese American artist who is best known for her graphic memoir Citizen 13660 (1946), which chronicled her World War II incarceration. This film was produced in conjunction with the 2021 exhibition, Miné Okubo’s Masterpiece: The Art of Citizen 13660. Directed by Yuka Murakami 16 minutes This film is currently being presented at film...