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  • JANM Skate Park Pop-Up

    Feb 11, 2024

    Bring your board and join us for a pop-up skate park on JANM’s plaza to celebrate the special edition skateboard deck designed by the artist in collaboration with The Berrics. Once an “off-brand skateboard kid,” Kaino’s experiences on the board helped shape his art career and worldview. Combining the artist’s childhood love for skateboarding with the influential imagery of Katsuhiro Otomo’s animated film Akira, th...

  • Film Screening and Discussion—"Loving (2016)"

    Jul 07, 2018

    This historical drama is based on the true story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a couple whose 1958 arrest for interracial marriage in Virginia began a legal battle that would end with the Supreme Court’s historic 1967 decision that invalidated state anti-miscegenation laws. Panel discussion to follow screening, moderated by hapa.me creator Kip Fulbeck and with panelists Ken Tanabe and Catherine Leung of Lovi...

  • FREE ADMISSION ALL DAY

    Jan 20, 2017

    In recognition of democracy and the fragility of constitutional protections, JANM will be offering free admission all day.

  • Members Only Screening and Discussion—"Under the Blood Red Sun"

    Feb 06, 2016

    All members are invited to a private screening of Under the Blood Red Sun. Based on the acclaimed book by Graham Salisbury, the film is a coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II. Tomi and his best friend Billy are playing baseball when they notice fighter planes bearing Japan’s insignia descending on their island home. Following the attack, preju...

  • Double (Book) Header: "How to Be An American Housewife" by Margaret Dilloway & "Wingshooters" by Nina Revoyr

    Feb 25, 2012

    How to Be An American Housewife crosses continents, cultures, decades, and generations to tell the story of a Japanese woman who marries an American soldier at the end of World War II, her thorny relationship with her American daughter, and the trip to contemporary Japan that changes both of their lives in dramatic and unexpected ways. Purchase How to Be an American Housewife >> Wingshooters, set in the 1970...

  • "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...

  • " 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Life Interrupted: The Japanese American Experience in WWII Arkansas

    Jul 18, 2003

    The overall project, entitled "Life Interrupted: The Japanese American Experience in WWII Arkansas", includes the use of four National Museum traveling exhibitions and the creation and development of three other exhibitions to open in Little Rock in September of 2004. It also includes an all-day conference (a follow-up to the successful All-Camps Summit organized by the National Museum in November of 2002), optiona...