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  • The Importance of Telling the Japanese American Resisters’ Story

    Apr 27, 2024

    Join us to honor Dr. Takashi Hoshizaki, a Heart Mountain resister and a board member of the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation (HMWF). As a US citizen, he was incarcerated without due process, turned eighteen while behind barbed wire, and resisted the draft stating, “I will fight if you restore my rights.” Convicted of draft resistance in 1944, he spent two years in federal prison and was pardoned by President Truman ...

  • Virtual Educator Workshop—Teaching the Youth Experience of JA WWII Incarceration

    Apr 11, 2024

    Join the JANM Education Unit for this free virtual educator workshop exploring the daily lives of young Japanese Americans who came of age in America’s concentration camps. During World War II, over 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were unjustly incarcerated in American concentration camps—approximately one third were children. Through photographs, personal stories, and artifacts from JANM’s collection, learn stra...

  • JANM Mourns the Passing of Alan Nishio

    Jan 03, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) mourns the passing of Alan Nishio. A lifelong educator and community activist, Nishio was a prominent voice in efforts to ensure that the Japanese American experience is never forgotten, and a founding leader, board member, and trusted advisor to numerous Little Tokyo organizations. Born in Manzanar concentration camp in 1945, Nishio began his politica...

  • Perseverance at the Middlebury College Museum of Art (Middlebury, VT)

    Jun 10, 2016 - Aug 07, 2016

    TRAVELING EXHIBITION Middlebury College Museum of Art Middlebury, VT Perseverance: Japanese Tattoo Tradition in a Modern World is a groundbreaking photographic exhibition that explores the master craftsmanship of traditional Japanese tattoos and their enduring influence on modern tattoo practices. Even as Japanese-style tattooing has moved into the mainstream, it remains an enigmatic and misunderst...

  • Perseverance at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond, VA)

    May 29, 2015 - Nov 29, 2015

    TRAVELING EXHIBITION Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Richmond, VA Perseverance: Japanese Tattoo Tradition in a Modern World is a groundbreaking photographic exhibition that explores the master craftsmanship of traditional Japanese tattoos and their enduring influence on modern tattoo practices. Even as Japanese-style tattooing has moved into the mainstream, it remains an enigmatic and misunderstood ar...

  • A Day in the Life of Asian Pacific America

    May 10, 2014

    The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center + Flickr present A Day in the Life of Asian Pacific America Somewhere in Asian Pacific America, a child cries; a father cooks breakfast; a mother dresses and goes to work. A thousand tasks get done. A thousand dreams are born. A Day in the Life of Asian Pacific America seeks to capture the particulars of everyday life and piece them together to compose the ...

  • PROF. SCOTT KURASHIGE TO DISCUSS 'SHIFTING GROUNDS OF RACE' ON SATURDAY, JULY 30

    Jul 28, 2011

    Professor Scott Kurashige will provide insight into his book, Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles, at a public program set for the Japanese American National Museum on Saturday, July 30, beginning at 2 p.m. Among Professor Kurashige’s insights is the fact that Los Angeles, now considered one of the most diverse metropolitan areas in the world, had the sma...

  • 'YEAR OF THE RABBIT: STAN SAKAI'S USAGI YOJIMBO' EXHIBITION TO OPEN JULY 9

    Jun 24, 2011

    The Japanese American National Museum will premiere its latest exhibition, Year of the Rabbit: Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo, on Saturday, July 9, featuring original art of the iconic comic book character and a new documentary on cartoonist Stan Sakai. Premiere Sponsor for the exhibition is Daruma. The show runs through October 30, 2011. Sakai’s samurai rabbit has become internationally famous since its inception 27 ...

  • AUTHOR JOHN CHRISTGAU TO DISCUSS TREATMENT OF 'ENEMY ALIENS' DURING WW II

    Aug 19, 2010

    Examination of the United States Government’s Enemy Alien Internment Program, which operated from 1941 to 1946, is the subject of a public program featuring author John Christgau on Saturday, August 28, beginning at 2 p.m., at the Japanese American National Museum. Christgau is the author of the book, Enemies: World War II Alien Internment, as well as a collaborator on the photo exhibit, "The Alien Enemy Files: Hi...

  • AUTHOR TO DISCUSS BOOK ON 'NURSE OF MANZANAR' ON JULY 18

    Jul 03, 2009

    The book, Nurse of Manzanar, based on a lost manuscript by Nisei Toshiko Eto Nakamura, who was a registered nurse when World War II broke out, will be the subject of a public program at the Japanese American National Museum on Saturday, July 18, beginning at 2 p.m. Samuel Nakamura, Toshiko’s only son, discovered the manuscript after his mother’s death in 1994. The manuscript was written shortly after the end of Wo...