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  • Spotlight on the Japanese American WWII Experience and Current Affairs

    Mar 01, 2014

    Presentation of the Japanese American WWII experience and how that experience is relevant to current affairs. Will feature a panel discussion that will span seven decades, three generations and four wars as it brings together Japanese Americans who served in World War II, the Korean War, Vietnam War, and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Moderated by Darrell Kunitomi. PANELISTS: Masao Takahashi - World War II veteran, 1...

  • "A Flicker in Eternity" by Sharon Yamato, Ann Kaneko, and Joanne Oppenheim

    Jun 01, 2013

    Screenings will be held at 2PM and 3PM.: This documentary tells the true World War II story of Stanley Hayami, a talented young teenager caught between his dreams of becoming an artist and his duty to his country. Based on Stanley’s diary and letters archived at the Japanese American National Museum, this coming-of-age tale chronicles Stanley’s life behind barbed wire and as a member of the 442nd Regimental Combat...

  • AUTHOR KIYO SATO TO READ, DISCUSS MEMOIR 'KIYO'S STORY' ON JULY 17

    Jul 13, 2010

    Author Kiyo Sato will read from and discuss her award-winning memoir, Kiyo’s Story: A Japanese American Family’s Quest for the American Dream, at a public program set for Saturday, July 17, beginning at 2 p.m. at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo. Like thousands of Japanese Americans, the Sato family was forcibly removed from their home and sent to live in a government-run concentration camp in...

  • PROF. MITCHELL MAKI TO FACILITATE MINETA-TAKEI CONVERSATION OCT. 24

    Oct 10, 2009

    Professor Mitchell Maki will facilitate the conversation between former Secretary of Transportation Norman Y Mineta and actor/activist George Takei at a special fundraising event organized by the Japanese American National Museum and set for its Democracy Forum on Saturday, October 24, beginning at 2 p.m. "Conversations with Norman Mineta and George Takei" is a new National Museum series created to provide a vehic...

  • Asian Pacific Film Festival

    May 06, 2009

    The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, set for April 30 through May 7, 2009, is an annual production of Visual Communications, the nation’s premier Asian Pacific American media arts center. The National Museum and the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy are honored to support their efforts by hosting programs that explores the diversity of the Asian American experience. The Film Festival...

  • Fighting for Democracy Pre-visit Workshop

    Jul 10, 2008

    Sign-up for a FREE Pre-Visit Workshop Thursday, November 6, 4:30 PM - 7:30 PM (Dinner provided) WHAT IS FIGHTING FOR DEMOCRACY? For hundreds of years people have sought a home and future in the United States of America. They came, and still come, in pursuit of freedom and democracy. Yet, the dream of democracy is not without its struggle. Against the backdrop of World War II, a segregated America, and the Ci...

  • dj Cheb i Sabbah and Friends

    Aug 04, 2005

    Spinning ragas and electronica with equal grace, Algerian-born dj Cheb i Sabbah is a pilgrim of the spirit, creating peaceful meditations that give new meaning to "trance music." His latest project, La Kahena, took him back to the Maghreb where he drank from an endless well of gorgeous melodies and rolling drumbeats. For this concert, Chebiji will be joined by some of LA's finest Maghrebi musicians and dancers. ...

  • Fresh Words & Actions: "Two in LA" by Rhiana Yazzie

    Nov 20, 2003

    A staged reading of a play about a young Navajo woman’s shocking discovery of real life in Los Angeles. In her hometown of Cuba, New Mexico, others could not see past Nita’s ethnicity, but in LA she could be anyone she wanted to be. Thrown into the middle of post-9/11 immigration decrees and their inherent biased nature, Nita is forced to experience a physical and emotional displacement of her own. A dram-edy...

  • Irene Y. Hirano

    Jan 01, 1999

    In the thirteen years since the founding of the Japanese American National Museum, the Museum has grown from an innovative historical museum to an interdisciplinary, international institution dedicated to sharing and celebrating the history and culture of Japanese Americans with people of all backgrounds. To date, the Museum has assembled the world’s largest collection of Japanese American art and artifacts; organize...

  • Japanese American National Museum And Fisher Gallery, USC Present "Asian Traditions/Modern Expressions: Asian American Artists And Abstractions, 1945-1970"

    Dec 09, 1997

    The Japanese American National Museum in partnership with the Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California present Asian Traditions/Modern Expressions: Asian American Artists and Abstraction, 1945–1970, Wednesday, December, 10, 1997 through Saturday, February 14, 1998 at the Fisher Gallery and Sunday, February 15, 1998 at the Japanese American National Museum. The exhibition presents artworks from a gener...