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  • Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day

    Sep 21, 2019

    Free admission to JANM all day! In the spirit of the Smithsonian Museums, which offer free admission every day, JANM is offering FREE admission all day as part of the annual Museum Day event.

  • Health Care—A Conversation Determined by You (SoCal Solutions)

    Jun 19, 2019

    FREE What would it take to create a universal access health system in terms of money, time, and a sufficient number of health care providers? This is a question KPCC’s health reporters field often. It’s clear that many share the goal of moving the United States to universal coverage. Less clear: just how this would happen. Is “Medicare for all” the answer? What about a “single-payer” system? Join KPCC In Person...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Little Tokyo Design Week: Future City

    Jul 13, 2011 - Jul 17, 2011

    Little Tokyo Design Week: Future City celebrates the power of cutting edge design and technology now emerging from Japan and its intersection with current trends materializing in Los Angeles. Design’s ability to move us towards a more sustainable and creative urban lifestyle is at the heart of this five-day festival, which will include exhibitions, symposiums, film screenings, and designer installations. @JANM: We...

  • '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. ...

  • Former Congressman Norman Mineta Donates Papers to the Japanese American National Museum

    Jan 01, 1996

    The Japanese American National Museum announced the acquisition of former U.S. Rep. Norman Y. Mineta’s papers and other materials from his 22-year career in Congress, a significant collection from the first mainland Nikei elected to the House of Representatives. The Mineta Collection includes papers compiled at his Washington, D.C. office and amounts to nearly 30 linear feet of materials and documents. Among t...