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  • Film Screening and Discussion—"Resistance at Tule Lake"

    Feb 10, 2018

    If you missed the program, you can watch it online on JANM’s YouTube channel. This new documentary from director/producer Konrad Aderer tells the long-suppressed story of 12,000 Japanese Americans who dared to resist the US government’s program of mass incarceration during World War II. Giving voice to experiences that have been marginalized for over 70 years, the film challenges the nationalist...

  • 2016 Gala Dinner, Silent Auction, and After Party

    Mar 19, 2016

    Moving Images, Telling Stories Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Suites, Los Angeles (Please note new venue.) Film and video are powerful tools used for generations to document, reflect, and influence people and culture. The Japanese American National Museum’s 2016 Gala Dinner will focus on the museum’s significant collection of moving images and how these compelling first-person resources have helped portray...

  • "Prisons and Patriots: Japanese American Wartime Citizenship, Civil Disobedience, and Historical Memory "by Cherstin M. Lyon

    Jun 23, 2012

    Prisons and Patriots provides a detailed account of 41 Nisei who were imprisoned for resisting the draft during WWII. Lyon parallels their courage as resisters with that of the late civil rights hero Gordon Hirabayashi. Purchase the book from the Museum Store >> Related stories on our DiscoverNikkei.org site: Interview with Dr. Cherstin Lyon >> Book review of Prisons and Patriots by Art Hansen >>

  • Night & the City: L.A. Noir in Poetry, Fiction, & Film

    Oct 29, 2011

    As part of the citywide event produced by The Los Angeles Poetry Festival and Beyond Baroque, the National Museum presents Naomi Hirahara, author of Snakeskin Shamisen and other books featuring gardener and sleuth Masuo Arai, and poet Carol Lem, author of Gathering the Pieces and other collections, whose recent poems investigate family secrets and shady activities.

  • Bringing the Circle Together: Juchitan Queer Paradise

    Mar 18, 2010

    A free screening of Juchitan Queer Paradise, with a special short film entitled Two-Spirit People in the Modern World In collaboration with Bringing The Circle Together, the Red Circle Project at AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA) will be hosting a free night of documentary films: 'Two-Spirit People in the Modern World', a short film by Mike Garrido and Tarek Tohme and 'Juchitan Queer Paradise' by Patricio Henriq...

  • Six Taste's Little Tokyo Food Tour

    Feb 20, 2010

    Little Tokyo is home to several restaurants, bakeries, and other historical eating establishments. Its 100-plus years of history provide some fascinating stories. Six Taste's Little Tokyo Tour will take you throughout Little Tokyo, from Fugetsu-Do, a confectionary shop and the oldest building in Little Tokyo to Chado Tea Room, where you'll get to taste some authentic Japanese tea, to several other restaurants and oth...

  • Fighting for Democracy Pre-visit Workshop

    Nov 12, 2009

    Sign-up for a FREE Pre-Visit Workshop Thursday, November 12, 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 C...

  • Bringing the Circle Together: When your Hands are Tied

    Jul 16, 2009

    Free Screening of When your Hands are Tied Since native youth do not often see reflections of themselves or their communities in mainstream media, When your Hands are Tied explores and documents native young people and role models who are finding exciting and positive ways to direct their lives through self-motivation in combination with traditional teachings to help prepare for the challenges of everyday life. Sp...

  • Japanese American National Museum Sets 10th Anniversary Celebration Gala March 8 At Grand Ballroom At Hollywood & Highland

    Mar 08, 2002

    The Japanese American National Museum will begin a series of events marking its 10th Anniversary of its public opening by holding its Annual Dinner on Friday, March 8, at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland, 6801 Hollywood Blvd., with dinner to be catered by the world-famous chef Wolfgang Puck. The 10th Anniversary Celebration Gala Dinner and Silent Auction is one of the National Museum’s major annual f...

  • FAMILY CELEBRATION OPENS NATIONAL MUSEUM’S MORE THAN A GAME EXHIBITION March 4, 5

    Mar 01, 2000

    LOS ANGELES—More Than a Game: Sport in the Japanese American Community, the new exhibition at the Japanese American National Museum, opens with a sport-filled family festival on Saturday, March 4 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Sunday, March 5 from 12 noon to 3 p.m. Paying tribute to the 70-year old history of Japanese American basketball leagues will be the National Museum’s first Intergenerational Basketball Free Thr...