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  • "Tatau" Opening Day Celebration

    Jul 30, 2016

    Join us for the opening day of Tatau! Our daylong celebration will include: 12 p.m.: Traditional Samoan ‘ava ceremony 1 p.m.–3:30 p.m.: Live tattooing demonstrations by exhibiting artists Su‘a Sulu‘ape Peter, Sulu‘ape Si‘i Liufau, Tuigamala Andy Tauafiafi, Mike Fatutoa, and Sulu‘ape Steve Looney 1:30 p.m.–2:10 p.m.: Remarks by Ann Burroughs, JANM Interim President and CEO; exhibition curator Takahiro “Ryudai...

  • "Honor and Sacrifice: The Roy Matsumoto Story"

    May 09, 2015

    FREE This award-winning film tells the story of Roy Matsumoto, a Nisei who became a World War II hero when he fought against the Japanese as part of Merrill’s Marauders, an American guerrilla unit. He also did work in military intelligence, which was kept secret for 50 years. Matsumoto had one brother who also fought for the Americans and three who fought for the Japanese, while his parents and sisters decided...

  • A Chat with Tommy Lasorda and Scott Akasaki

    Sep 06, 2014

    If you missed the program, you can watch it online on JANM’s YouTube channel. Scott Akasaki, the Dodgers’ Director of Team Travel, will engage former team manager and Hall-of-Famer Tommy Lasorda in an intimate discussion of Lasorda’s role as a baseball ambassador to Japan and other countries. Lasorda began his career as a major league player before moving on to a storied lifelong associatio...

  • Target Free Family Saturday: Summer Fun

    Jun 08, 2013

    FREE ALL DAY! Celebrate the arrival of summer with storytelling and fun crafts! SCHEDULE: 11:30AM • 1:30PM • 3PM: Storyteller Alton Chung will perform his one-man show Heroes which tells the story of the heroic actions of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, 100th Infantry Battalion, and the Military Intelligence Service (MIS). This program contains mature themes that may not be appropriate for younger audien...

  • Comedy Zen

    Jul 29, 2010

    Comedyzen is proud to be hosting East Coast comedian, Eliot Chang. You can catch is Comedy Central Present on air now. We are also lucky to be hosting Iliza Shlesinger, winner of NBC's LAST COMIC STANDING. Her comedy is as lethal as she is lovely. Youtube phenoms Just Kidding Films will be performing a special rendition of their famous, History of Korean Drama. Plus many more. Meet and Greet the comedians ...

  • Art-Talk-Art: "The Impossible Series"

    Apr 03, 2003

    The first in a series of six lectures and conversations with distinguished contemporary thinkers and artists. This program will focus on how our conceptions of the "possible," potential and pragmatic, shape our understanding and creative responses to "the impossible". A reception will follow. For more information and for the schedule of lecturers, please visit www.farsited.org or call F.A.R. at 213.386.5572.

  • Members' Reception and International Nikkei Research Project Book Signing in Hon

    Jan 25, 2003

    Join the National Museum's Hawai'i Advisory Council for a 10th Anniversary Members' Reception in Honolulu, Hawai'i. The reception will also feature an update on the international travel and "homecoming" of the exhibition From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i, plans for Bento reunion activities on Maui in February 2004 when the exhibition ends its run at the Maui Arts & Cul...

  • Japanese Americans in Baseball

    May 06, 2000

    This special program celebrates the opening of the traveling exhibition Diamonds in the Rough: Japanese Americans in Baseball. The exhibition’s organizers, the National Japanese American Historical Society (NJAHS) and the Nisei Baseball Research Project, will join the Japanese American National Museum for a tribute to Japanese American baseball players and a ceremonial first pitch. Curators Kerry Yo Nakagawa ...

  • Whispered Silences: Japanese Americans and World War II

    Aug 03, 1997

    Lecture and Book Signing Photographer Joan Myers and Gary Okihiro, Ph.D., essayist of the book Whispered Silences: Japanese Americans and World War II, join the Museum to speak about this extraordinary publication and the exhibition currently on view in the Museum’s Legacy Center. Joan Myers is a respected fine art and documentary photographer who journeyed across the western United States to photograph the rem...

  • AT&T East West Players New Voices Writers Gallery: Sidework by Michael Ahn

    Apr 10, 1997

    Thursday Evenings at the Museum New Play Reading The fifth play presentation in this continuing series of new play readings by Asian American playwrights. Join the Museum as it hosts the directors and cast members from East West Players in the debut readings of these fine, new works. Sidework by Michael Ahn tells the story of two women, one of whom is played by June Kyoku Lu, who teach each other some hard l...