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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...

  • From Moth to Cloth: Two-Day Silk Workshop

    Dec 09, 2017 - Dec 10, 2017

    Saturday–Sunday, December 9–10 11 a.m.–4 p.m. (both days) Glennis Dolce leads this two-day exploration of the Japanese tradition of silkworm rearing. On day one, learn to reel thread from cocoons with a traditional silk reeling device (zakuri) and try your hand at making silk handkerchiefs (mawata) from the cocoons. On day two, learn to process the silk cocoons into other usable fiber, thread, and j...

  • Time After Time Capsule

    Nov 01, 2016 - Jan 29, 2017

    Time After Time Capsule was created by Sebastian Masuda, a Japanese artist and a founder of 6%DOKIDOKI, a boutique and a central hub of kawaii culture in Harajuku, Japan. Time After Time Capsule is an ongoing art project which invites the public to contribute cherished personal items to fill 10 translucent sculptures that will travel around the world. Each community is invited to offer or create colorfully decorat...

  • "Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty’s Trek Across the Pacific" by Christine Yano, PhD

    Dec 06, 2014

    Join Christine Yano, co-curator of Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty, for a discussion of her 2013 book, which takes an in-depth look at the global economic and sociological effects of the export of Japanese “cute-cool culture.” Free for members, $20 adult non-members, $10 non-members ages 6-17. Includes admission to Hello! after discussion. Tickets Available Now Purchase Pink Globalization...

  • PROF. SAKAMOTO TO EXPLAIN CULTURAL CONFLICTS FOR JAPANESE AMERICANS AT NATIONAL MUSEUM ON JULY 28

    Jul 17, 2012

    Dr. Arthur Sakamoto, a professor of sociology at the University of Texas-Austin, will discuss the inherent conflicts between aspects of Japanese and American culture and how it has historically affected Japanese Americans in a public program set for Saturday, July 28, beginning at 2 p.m. at the Japanese American National Museum. Professor Sakamoto will lecture on "Japanese and American Aspects of the Japanese Amer...

  • 'ON PAPER WINGS' DOCUMENTARY TO BE SCREENED ON JUNE 27

    Jun 23, 2009

    A documentary that recounts a World War II Japanese military campaign that forced young Japanese women to help make balloons that were then armed with bombs and sent into the jet stream toward North America, resulting in the death of a woman and five girls in Oregon, and a Japanese American scholar who brought together some of the unwitting builders and the residents of the Oregon town, will be screened at the Japane...

  • Smithsonian's Franklin Odo To Read From Book 'No Sword To Bury'

    Mar 26, 2004

    Franklin Odo, Director of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program and curator at the National Museum of American History, will read from his latest book, No Sword to Bury: Japanese Americans in Hawaii during WWII, at a program set for the Japanese American National Museum on Sunday, April 4, beginning at 2 p.m. The event is co-sponsored by the National Museum and the Go For Broke Educational Foundation. ...