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  • "They Called Us Enemy"—Conversation and Signing with George Takei

    Jul 21, 2019

    SOLD OUT Join living legend George Takei for a brief conversation about the graphic novel They Called Us Enemy. The book, co-written by Justin Eisinger and Steven Scott and illustrated by Harmony Becker, is Takei’s firsthand account of years behind barbed wire at an American concentration camp during World War II, the terrors of growing up under legalized racism, his mother’s hard choices, his father’s faith in de...

  • Author Discussion and Activist Panel—"Serve the People" by Karen L. Ishizuka

    Jun 18, 2016

    If you missed the program, you can watch it online on JANM’s YouTube channel. Serve the People: Making Asian America in the Long Sixties tells the story of the social and cultural movement that knit disparate communities of Asian and Pacific Islander Americans into a political identity. Drawing on more than 120 interviews and illustrated with striking images from guerrilla publications, the book...

  • Members Only Meet and Greet with S. Floyd Mori

    Jan 23, 2016

    Come meet S. Floyd Mori—author, member of JANM’s Board of Governors, and President and CEO of the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies (APAICS)—at this intimate pre-event reception prior to the public discussion about his book, The Japanese American Story. Space is limited. RSVP by January 18 to memberevents@janm.org or 213.830.5646.

  • "Airborne Dreams: “Nisei” Stewardesses and Pan American World Airways " by Christine R. Yano

    Jan 28, 2012

    On October 13, 1955, Pan American World Airways stunned the commercial aviation industry by ordering the largest fleet of jet aircraft in the world, officially ushering in the Jet Age. In that same year, the airline embarked on a new personnel program, hiring Japanese American women to serve its Tokyo-bound and famed round-the-world flights. Although the airline claimed to hire these women to speak Japanese, in o...

  • American Tapestry

    Nov 13, 2010 - Apr 17, 2011

    A set of marbles found in the barren desert. The candid diary of a 19-year-old soldier. A haunting memento from the World Trade Center on 9/11. The Japanese American National Museum has a treasure of ordinary, yet extraordinary stories in its unique and innovative collection. Celebrating its 25th Anniversary year, the Museum is pleased to present AMERICAN TAPESTRY: 25 Stories from the Collection, a selection of...

  • " Japanese American Resettlement through the Lens: Hikaru Iwasaki and the WRA's Photographic Section, 1943-1945"

    Nov 21, 2009

    In Japanese American Resettlement through the Lens, Lane Ryo Hirabayashi gathers a unique collection of photographs by War Relocation Authority photographer Hikaru Iwasaki, the only full-time WRA photographer from the period still living. This book explores the WRA's use of photography in its mission to encourage "loyal" Japanese Americans to return to society before the end of the war, and also to convince Euro-Amer...

  • Songs for a New World

    Oct 23, 2009 - Oct 25, 2009

    October 23-25 8 PM shows on Friday/Saturday, 2 PM on Sunday $25 general admission $20 seniors, students and groups of 10 or more YES AND…PRODUCTIONS proudly presents Jason Robert Brown’s SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD. With a small, passionate cast and a driving, exquisitely crafted score, SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD is about one moment---or rather, isolated moments in the lives of many characters---in a variety of eras. ...

  • CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION RETROSPECTIVE ART EXHIBIT OPENS AT MUSEUM OCT. 4

    Oct 02, 2008

    The California Community Foundation (CCF), the Getty Foundation and the Japanese American National Museum on Saturday, Oct. 4, launched a three-month retrospective featuring the works of 33 recipients of the foundation’s Fellowships for Visual Artists from the past 20 years. Co-sponsored by the Getty Foundation, the exhibit is entitled "Twenty Years Ago Today: Supporting Individual Artists in L.A,’" and runs throu...

  • Music for Alice

    Mar 26, 2004

    As a girl, Alice loved to dance, but the rhythms of her life offered little opportunity for a foxtrot, much less a waltz. World War II erupted soon after she was married, and Alice and her husband—along with many other Japanese Americans—were forced to leave their home and report to an assembly center. Undaunted, Alice and Mark learned to make the most of every circumstance, from their stall in the old stockyard in...

  • "Southland", by Nina Revoyr

    Jan 10, 2004

    Southland explores the fragile relationships and sometimes painful misunderstandings that occur across the lines of race and culture. It is also the story of an ever-changing city. Moving in and out of the past, from the shipping yards and internment camps of World War II; the barley fields of the Crenshaw district in the 1930s; the mean streets of Watts in the 1960s; and the night spots and garment factories of the ...