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  • Member Appreciation Days

    May 06, 2016 - May 08, 2016

    Friday–Sunday, May 6–8, 2016 JANM members always enjoy a 10% store discount and free admission to JANM. On this special weekend, take advantage of a 20% discount at the JANM Store and janmstore.com, plus free admission and a 20% store discount at 20 other participating Southern California institutions. Participants this season include FIDM Museum and Galleries, Heritage Square Museum, Kidspace Children’s ...

  • Okaeri: A Nikkei LGBTQ Gathering

    Nov 15, 2014

    Okaeri is a day of educational and storytelling workshops for LGBTQ members of the Nikkei community and their friends, family, and allies. All are welcome to come and share support and resources as we work to build an inclusive Nikkei community. For information and to register, visit okaeri-la.org. Click this link to read an interview with lead organizer of Okaeri, Marsha Aizumi>>

  • ‘I WANT THE WIDE AMERICAN EARTH: AN ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN STORY’ OPENS AT JANM SEPTEMBER 14

    Sep 03, 2013

    Los Angeles — The Japanese American National Museum is pleased to present I Want the Wide American Earth: An Asian Pacific American Story from September 14 to October 27, 2013. Travelling from the Smithsonian Institution’s Asian Pacific American Center, I Want the Wide American Earth explores the deep-rooted history of Asian Pacific Americans in the United States, spanning from the first immigrants in the 1800s to th...

  • KRISTI YAMAGUCHI TO READ LATEST CHILDREN'S BOOK AT MUSEUM MARCH 18

    Mar 08, 2012

    Kristi Yamaguchi, Olympic figure skating Gold Medalist and 2008 "Dancing with the Stars" Champion, will read from her latest children’s book, It’s a Big World, Little Pig! on Sunday, March 18, beginning at 2 p.m. at the Japanese American National Museum. The book will be available for sale at the Museum and Yamaguchi will sign books after the program. Yamaguchi came to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s as an ice s...

  • An Intergenerational Memoir Arts Workshop

    Mar 12, 2011

    Join editor Brian Komei Dempster of Making Home From War and illustrator Felicia Hoshino of My Dog Teny in a creative collaboration workshop. Bring a friend or family member and a memory that may be in the form of a photo, a letter, an artifact, or short writing reflection. Come create a recollection of life before, during, or after WW II to share with others. No experience necessary. Reservations requested. Sugg...

  • Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center Retrospective

    Aug 01, 2009

    *Free Join us for an enlightening conversation between filmmakers Justin Lin, Robert Nakamura, Karen Ishizuka and John Esaki on the past, present and future of Asian American film. They will show clips and discuss the history of the Asian American film movement, their work at JANM's Watase Media Arts Center, their filmmaking careers, and the future of Asian American film. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS ROBERT NAKAMURA is a ...

  • Akio Morita

    Jul 13, 2007 - Sep 09, 2007

    The Japanese American National Museum will present the exhibition, Akio Morita, this summer from July 13 - September 9, 2007. Developed by members of the Morita family, this exhibit commemorates the remarkable life and achievements of Mr. Akio Morita (1921-1999), co-founder of Sony Corporation. As one of Sony's principal figures, Morita was known as an electronic innovator who changed the way the world sees, hears...

  • 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...

  • Madame Fujima Kansuma

    Born May 9, 1918, Madame Fujima Kansuma is a celebrated Japanese American kabuki dancer and teacher whose career began in the early 1940s and spanned decades. After studying under the “God of Theatre,” Onoe Kikugoro VI, in Japan, she was requested to perform her pieces in different concentration camps while still incarcerated in Arkansas during World War II. Because she dedicated her life to sharing the culture of ka...