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  • CHOPSO Presents: Visas and Virtue and Crossover

    Nov 15, 2017

    FREE The Japanese American National Museum is proud to announce its partnership with CHOPSO, the first streaming destination for English-language Asian content from around the world. Several documentary films produced by the museum’s award-winning Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center will be available for streaming on the site. CHOPSO invites you to celebrate their launch with a 20th anniversary screening of...

  • Pay What You Wish

    May 28, 2016

    JANM admission is "pay what you wish" this day in celebration of Go For Broke National Education Center’s homecoming celebration.

  • "Hello!" Closing Party

    May 22, 2015

    6 p.m.–7 p.m.: Members Only Reception 6 p.m.–8 p.m.: Hello! Catalog Signing* with Becca, Michael Courville, Paul Frank, Martin Hsu, Kozyndan, Simone Legno, Nicole Maloney, Mark Nagata, Souther Salazar, Edwin Ushiro, Yoskay Yamamoto, Jeni Yang, and Yarns and Noble 6 p.m.–8 p.m.: Hello Kitty Cafe Truck will be giving out Hello Kitty bottled water and a donut (one per guest, while supplies last). 8:30 p.m.: Nyl...

  • "Hiroshima Nagasaki Download" by Shinpei Takeda

    Oct 22, 2011

    Two friends visit atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki who now live in the United States. During their trip from Canada to Mexico, they record a piece of modern history crucially important to Japanese collective psyche while exploring their own identities and revealing the reality of psychological scars. There will be a Q&A after the screening with the filmmaker. Presented in collaboration with The Ge...

  • Asian American Poetry & Writing Presents: Creative Writing Classes

    Oct 04, 2008 - Nov 08, 2008

    This Fall 2008 Asian American Poetry and Writing (AAPW) and the Japanese American National Museum are proud and excited to offer community-based creative writing workshops for aspiring and emerging writers. Our goal is to create affordable and culturally sensitive classes that allows writers the space to explore craft and theme in their work. When: October 4, 2008 - November 8, 2008 (Saturday mornings and af...

  • Peruvian Jazz from Ciro Hurtado and Friends

    Dec 18, 2004

    Take a break from the holiday bustle and join us for an evening of traditional, folk, and original music by award-winning Peruvian guitarist Ciro Hurtado. This vibrant celebration of the season includes Cindy and Libby Harding as well as special guest musicians. National Museum members $15, non-members $18, includes a post-concert dessert reception. Advance purchase recommended.

  • "Breaking the Silence: Daughters Unveil Their Father's WWII Experiences"

    Oct 05, 2002

    Film Screening, Reading, and Conversation with the Authors Featuring author Louise Steinman and journalist Wendy Hanamura, who will both talk about their motivations, struggles and discoveries as they went through the process of reconstructing their fathers' war experiences. Weaving together her father's letters from wartime—found after his death—with the story of her own journey, Steinman tells a compelling story...

  • The Japanese Latin-American Experience During World War II

    Jan 11, 1997

    Letters from Camp Exhibit Series Panel Discussion Featuring: Campaign for Justice During World War II, over 2,260 people of Japanese ancestry were deported from their homes in Latin America to concentration camps in the U.S. The purpose of this action was to make these Japanese Latin Americans hostages in exchange for American citizens who were being detained in the Far Eastern War Zones. Hear their stories as ...

  • Cruising J-Town—Audio Guide

    Seven years in the making, Cruising J-Town is one of the first exhibitions to ever highlight the rich history of the Japanese American community here in Los Angeles, and its long relationship to the world of cars and trucks. The stories cover everything from import tuners to gardening trucks, auto designers to gas station mechanics, prewar hot rodders to 21st century drift racers.At the heart of Cruising J-Town are t...

  • Instructions to All Persons: Reflections on Executive Order 9066 - Educational Resources

    Executive Order 9066 Executive Order 9066 was signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942. It authorized the War Department to “prescribe military areas…from which any or all persons may be excluded… The right of any person to enter, remain in, or leave” those areas was at the discretion of the “military authorities.” This order, which on the surface made no reference to Japanese Americans or na...