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  • "Common Ground" Exhibition Tour

    Dec 01, 2018

    Take a tour of JANM’s core exhibition with our knowledgeable docents. This is a great opportunity for first-time visitors, long-time museum members, and everyone in between. Included with museum admission.

  • Author Discussion—"Hiroshima Boy" by Naomi Hirahara

    Mar 17, 2018

    If you missed the program, you can watch it online on JANM’s YouTube channel. The latest and final installment in the Mas Arai series finds the curmudgeonly detective returning to Hiroshima to bring his best friend’s ashes to a relative. However, Mas quickly becomes embroiled in the mysterious death of a teenage boy, who was about the same age he was when he survived the atomic bomb in 1945. ...

  • Two-Day Shibori Mandalas Workshop

    Feb 04, 2017 - Feb 05, 2017

    Saturday–Sunday, February 4–5 11 a.m.–4 p.m. Mandalas are an infinite source of timeless beauty. Explore their rich possibilities in this contemporary shibori workshop, in which both old and new techniques will be utilized. Vintage kimono silks and new, colorful dyes will be combined to create eye-catching patterns to accent pillows, quilts, and other creative projects. Please wear studio clothing an...

  • Target Free Family Saturday: Wild Things

    May 14, 2011

    FREE ALL DAY! Delight in a day of family fun that explores the wild world of animals! Generously sponsored by Target, these special Saturdays are filled with fun activities giving families unique ways to learn, play, and grow together. ALL DAY CRAFT ACTIVITIES: Take a walk on the wild side by making an animal mask to wear! Spotted or striped? Friendly or fierce? Create an animal puppet with a mix of fun...

  • Electric Cherry Blossom

    Apr 04, 2009 - Apr 05, 2009

    Japansterdam is proud to present the first annual "Electric Cherry Blossom" Event. It's all happening on Saturday April 4th at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. This event features up and coming bands such as Anime Expo Idol STEPHANIE YANEZ, San Fransisco's J-pop favorites AKAI SKY, and KAILA YU ('The Fast and the Furious') and NYLON PINK, performing their breakout hit from the 'G...

  • Sogetsu Ikebana School Demonstration

    Jun 24, 2006

    Madame Yoshu Miyahara, Director of Sogetsu Ikebana School in Los Angeles, leads a special demonstration on how flower and plant materials can be transformed into sublime tributes to nature. Witness the creation of elaborate three-dimensional artistic expressions.

  • 2000 New Year Family Celebration

    Jan 02, 2000

    Celebrate the New Year at the Museum with family and friends by enjoying a fun-filled, festive afternoon of taiko drumming, Japanese archery, and New Year’s arts and crafts. Kids of all ages will enjoy making nenga, traditional Japanese New Year postcards, and darumas, a symbol of perseverance, to help make New Year’s wishes come true. Don’t miss out on other New Year’s activities planned throughout Little Tokyo. ...

  • Award Winning Illustrator and Children's Author Allen Say Reads “Tea With Milk” at Japanese American National Museum Sunday, Aug. 8

    Aug 01, 1999

    LOS ANGELES—Allen Say, winner of the 1994 Randolph Caldecott Medal for most distinguished picture book for children and the Boston Globe—Horn Book Award for outstanding illustration, will read and sign his latest book, Tea With Milk, on Sunday, August 8 at 1 p.m. at the Japanese American National Museum. On Sunday, August 22 at 4 p.m., the Museum Book Store will host a drawing for a signed and framed Tea With Milk po...

  • California Asian Cuisine with Chef Randy Saito

    Jun 28, 1997

    Japanese American Cuisine Series Lecture/Demonstrations Randy Saito, the executive chef at downtown Los Angeles’ Hyatt Regency Hotel, demonstates his culinary skills in creating his specialty—California Asian cuisine as part of the popular Japanese American Cuisine series program. Cooking since the age of 8, Chef Saito grew up in Maui, Hawai‘i where his father was an executive chef. For the past 17 years, Chef...

  • Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement

    Experience this new sweeping documentary from JANM’s Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center and PBS SoCal that follows the life of visionary artist-activist Nobuko Miyamoto and her work that changed Asian America forever.Featuring rare archival footage, Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement tells the story of a changing community through one of its most beloved storytellers as she reflects on decades of groundbreaking cultu...