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  • Edible Adventures: Vegetarian Little Tokyo Walk

    May 30, 2015

    Learn about the role Japanese produce farmers played in the early days of Little Tokyo while sampling vegetables such as kabocha (winter squash), konnyaku (yam cake), and edamame (soybeans) from neighborhood shops. $40 members, $50 non-members. Nibbles and admission to Common Ground: The Heart of Community included; lunch stop is extra. Limited to 15 participants. Comfortable walking shoes recommended. ...

  • Target Free Family Saturdays: March into Spring

    Mar 14, 2015

    FREE* ALL DAY! Spring is here! Welcome the new season by recycling old things into new ones. *Admission to all activities and to Common Ground: The Heart of Community is FREE ALL DAY. Admission to the special exhibition, Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty, requires a separate purchase. All Hello! Admissions are based on timed entry; obtaining tickets in advance is strongly recommended. ...

  • Beginners Wagashi Workshop

    Nov 19, 2011

    This is a hands-on wagashi making class. Chikara Mizukami will demonstrate two classics: Nerikiri and Kuzukiri. Nerikiri are hand molded bean cakes made with azuki bean paste and natural vegetable dyes for coloring. You will learn about the seasonal themes in Wagashi and the varieties of wagashi shapes - the abstract and impressionistic designs of Kyoto and the realistic designs of Edo (old Tokyo). We will also ma...

  • HEART MOUNTAIN, WYOMING: Removal, Resettlement, Redress, and Reflections: A Community Conference

    Sep 24, 2010 - Sep 25, 2010

    Friday, September 24, 5:30 PM - 8 PM Saturday, September 25, 7:30 AM - 5:00 PM $20 general; $15 members, students and those who were in camp. A multi-generation, community-oriented gathering of those who were in and those who are interested in the WRA camp at Heart Mountain WY, and its short and long-term impact. Friday panels on Japanese American confinement, and terminology of the 1940s Japanese American ...

  • Isamu Noguchi

    Feb 05, 2006 - May 14, 2006

    In a career that spanned six decades, Japanese American artist Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) produced a groundbreaking body of work that encompassed multiple disciplines to break down the barriers between sculptural art and functional design. Isamu Noguchi - Sculptural Design celebrates this legacy by integrating over 75 of Noguchi's works into a series of dramatic installations conceptualized by renowned theater designe...

  • "9066 to 9/11"

    Jul 08, 2004

    Produced by the National Museum's Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center, 9066 to 9/11 explores similarities between the treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II and Arab and South Asian Americans post-9/11. The film reveals disturbing parallels between these experiences -- separated by more than sixty years. While Executive Order 9066, which authorized the incarceration of Japanese Americans during the war was...

  • Struggle and Success: The African American Experience in Japan

    Sep 16, 2001

    Join award-winning filmmaker Regge Life in a screening and discussion of Struggle and Success: The African American Experience in Japan, which is the first documentary to thoroughly examine the complex relationship of African Americans and Japanese. Mr. Life first went to Japan as an Artist Fellow with the U.S. Japan Friendship Commission in 1990. At the end of his six-month fellowship, he began planning this docu...

  • Exhibition Opening: "From Bento to Mixed Plate" at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, HI

    Oct 25, 1997

    Opening of exhibition From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Hawai‘i at the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawai‘i.

  • Little Tokyo Guided Tour

    Sep 06, 1997

    Historic Tour Series PART A: Walking Tour 9:30 a.m.– 11:30 a.m. Once a thriving residential, business and cultural center, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles was one of the largest Japanese American communities in the United States until World War II. Take a walking tour, relive history, and learn about present day Little Tokyo with Museum docents at this very popular program. PART B: The Historic Nishi Bui...

  • Clara Breed Collection

    (93.75.31) The online collection of Clara Breed, or “Miss Breed” as she was known by her young library patrons, includes over 300 letters and cards received by Breed from Japanese American children and young adults during their World War II incarceration.Miss Breed was the children’s librarian at San Diego Public Library from 1929 to 1945. When her young Japanese American patrons were forced into concentration camps ...