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  • Love to Nippon 2015

    Mar 08, 2015

    JANM is pleased to host the 2015 edition of Love to Nippon, an annual conference commemorating the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated Northern Japan. The daylong program will include a memorial program, an interfaith service, a screening of the documentary film Live Your Dreams: the Taylor Anderson Story, and a panel discussion on the state of Tohoku today. Visit lovetonippon.com for details.

  • Marvels & Monsters

    Oct 12, 2013 - Feb 09, 2014

    Through a selection of images from comic books representing four turbulent decades, Marvels & Monsters illustrates how evolving racial and cultural archetypes defined America’s perceptions of Asians. This exhibition draws from noted science fiction author and cultural studies scholar William F. Wu’s comic book collection—the largest archive of comic books featuring Asians and Asian Americans—that was donated to the N...

  • American Heroes

    May 04, 2013 - Jun 09, 2013

    Nearly seven decades after the beginning of World War II, the Congressional Gold Medal—the nation’s highest civilian award—was bestowed collectively on the U.S. Army’s 100th Infantry Battalion, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, and the Military Intelligence Service for their extraordinary accomplishments in the war. The men in these units, comprised almost entirely of persons of Japanese ancestry, fought with bravery...

  • "Pacific Citizens" by Greg Robinson

    Dec 01, 2012

    Pacific Citizens collects key writings of Larry S. Tajiri, a multitalented journalist, essayist, and popular culture maven. He and his wife, Guyo, became leading figures in Nisei political life as the central purveyors of news for and about Japanese Americans during World War II. The Tajiris also created the Pacific Citizen, a forum for liberal and progressive views on politics, civil rights, and democracy. Pa...

  • Origami Design Contest Information

    Aug 11, 2012

    DATE & TIME: August 11, 11AM-4PM LOCATION: Weingart Gallery Foyer AGE DIVISIONS: Child (under 13) and Adult (13+) This year’s Summer Festival will feature an Origami Design Contest for kids and adults! Contestants are welcome to use the origami paper provided by the National Museum to create their original origami designs. No materials other than what we provide can be used in the contest. HOW TO ENTER: Sign ...

  • Fighting For Democracy at National Constitution Center (Philadelphia, PA)

    Oct 14, 2011 - Jan 16, 2012

    TRAVELING EXHIBITION National Constitution Center Philadelphia, PA About the Exhibition Through the diverse perspectives of seven ordinary citizens whose lives and communities were forever changed by World War II, this exhibition asks visitors to think critically about freedom, history, and, ultimately, the ongoing struggle to live democratically in a diverse America. Fighting For Democracy: Who is ...

  • PROF. HIRABAYASHI, FORMER WRA PHOTOGRAPHER HIKARU IWASAKI TO DISCUSS WWII PHOTOS NOV. 21

    Nov 10, 2009

    Professor Lane Ryo Hirabayashi and former War Relocation Authority (WRA) photographer Hikaru Carl Iwasaki will discuss the images and history from the book, Japanese American Resettlement Through The Lens: Hikaru Carl Iwasaki and the WRA’s Photographic Section, 1943-1945, at a public program set for Saturday, Nov. 21, beginning at 2 p.m. at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo. Hirabayashi, the Ge...

  • Summer Film Festival: "Crossroads: Boyle Heights"

    Aug 13, 2009 - Aug 23, 2009

    To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center, the National Museum will continuously screen Crossroads: Boyle Heights. This documentary was compiled from life histories of past and present neighborhood residents of Boyle Heights. It was originally produced for exhibition, BOYLE HEIGHTS: The Power of Place (2002), at the Japanese American National Museum. 55 min. [Purchase a cop...

  • America's Concentration Camps: Remembering the Japanese American Experience

    Mar 25, 1998

    PUBLIC PROGRAMS "COMING TO TERMS: The Impact of World War II on American Jews and Japanese Americans Today" Sunday, March 29, 1998 1 p.m.–5 pm New York University Law Library – Greenberg Lounge This public program brings the American Jewish and Japanese American communities together in an examination of the history of each group in relation to World War II. The audience will be engaged in a discus...

  • Sumo U.S.A.: Wrestling the Grand Tradition Opens at the Japanese American National Museum

    Jul 01, 1997

    Sumo U.S.A.: Wrestling the Grand Tradition opens at the Japanese American National Museum, Thursday, July 3, 1997. Adapted and expanded from an exhibition initially mounted by the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawai‘i, Sumo U.S.A. focuses on how Japan’s national sport came to the United States along with thousands of immigrants at the turn of the Century and the important role it played in the Japanese American c...