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  • Members Only Learning at Lunch: Veterans Day

    Oct 20, 2018

    Bring a brown bag lunch and join JANM Collections staff as they showcase a selection of JANM artifacts focused on those who have served in the Armed Forces. Learn more about veteran artifacts—including personal letters, uniforms, and service awards—and the stories they tell. Space is limited. RSVP by October 16 using the link below. You can also contact memberevents@janm.org or 213.830.5646. Photo:...

  • Members Only Exhibition Tour: "Only the Oaks Remain"

    Jan 28, 2017

    Join a representative from the Tuna Canyon Detention Station Coalition for an informative tour of the Only the Oaks Remain: The Story of Tuna Canyon Detention Station special display. Limited to 20 members; reservations are required. RSVP to memberevents@janm.org or 213.830.5646.

  • "Canefield Songs: Holehole Bushi" Advance Screening and Panel Discussion

    Jul 18, 2015

    The Japanese immigrants who worked on Hawai‘i’s sugar plantations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries sang as they worked, creating a Japanese-American equivalent of "the blues." Called holehole (Hawaiian for dried cane leaves) bushi (Japanese for melody or tune), the songs are a record of the workers’ joys, sorrows, and challenges, providing a fascinating window onto early plantation life. In the ...

  • Go For Broke

    Nov 12, 2013 - Mar 02, 2014

    Go For Broke: Japanese American Soldiers Fighting on Two Fronts chronicles the history of Japanese American Nisei soldiers from the 100th Infantry Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, and Military Intelligence Service who served during World War II to prove their loyalty to the nation that had disowned them. Japanese American soldiers of the 100th and 442nd fought in eight brutal campaigns across Europe, recei...

  • Summer "Soboro" Chicken Rice Supper Workshop with Sonoko Sakai

    Aug 24, 2013

    Soboro is a delicious Japanese dish that uses rice as the centerpiece of a meal. The menu will consist of rice made in a donabe clay pot, and served with a variety of toppings. There will be vegetable side dishes to enhance the rice dish and a refreshing fruit dessert. $70 members, $80 non-members. RSVP early, 16 students max.

  • Shibori Workshop with Indigo

    Sep 17, 2011 - Sep 07, 2011

    Back from a month long trip to Japan to further Shibori Girl's study of silk, shibori, and indigo she has some great new stories and samples to share with you in addition to a wonderful little video presentation of the Arimatsu Shibori Festival. Yes! An annual festival devoted to shibori, past and present! She will also do some stitching (let's shibori stitch a dragonfly and drop it in the indigo vat), see some new t...

  • NATIONAL MUSEUM POSTPONES ASIAN/FUSION FOOD TRUCK EVENT

    Jul 26, 2011

    "The Battle of the Asian and Fusion Food Trucks" event, originally scheduled to be part of the National Museum’s 13th Annual Summer Festival on the Courtyard on Saturday, August 13, at the Japanese American National Museum, has been postponed. The free Summer Festival on the Courtyard will go on as scheduled, highlighted by the Los Angeles Tea Festival by Chado, hands-on arts and crafts and a ticketed concert at 2...

  • Fresh Words and Actions

    Sep 26, 2002

    Performance Arts Series Held Every Fourth Thursday Big Head is Denise Uyehara's latest work which links the memory of the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans with the present-day treatment of those suspected of being "the enemy". This interdisciplinary performance is inspired by letters her great uncle composed in 1942 on his twentieth birthday while incarcerated at Rohwer concentration camp in Arkansas...

  • Re-Visioning Manzanar

    Sep 24, 1999 - Oct 07, 2001

    Manzanar, one of the ten War Relocation Authority concentration camps, has been the subject of multiple interpretations over the last fifty years. Culled from the permanent collection of the Japanese American National Museum, this exhibition also features work by Ansel Adams, Robert Hasuike, and Masumi Hayashi. New additions to this exhibition include the recent acquisition of American Families, a weaving by Nisei...

  • Japanese American National Museum Opens New Hawai'i Exhibition

    Mar 10, 1998

    The Japanese American National Museum opens their new exhibit, From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i, Saturday, March 14, 1998. The exhibition tells the story of Americans of Japanese ancestry (AJAs) in Hawai'i from immigration to the present. When they arrived in the Islands as laborers, Japanese immigrants carried their lunches, called bento to work in the field...