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  • JANM Book Club: Most Honorable Son with Gregg Jones

    Aug 03, 2024

    Join author Gregg Jones for a discussion around his newest book, Most Honorable Son, which is the first comprehensive biography of Japanese American World War II hero Ben Kuroki.The JANM Book Club is a series of Public Programs that highlights new publications by Japanese Americans or related to Japanese American history and culture. About the bookA Nebraska farm boy who enlisted following the attack on Pearl Harbor...

  • THE JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM MOURNS THE PASSING OF PROFESSOR LLOYD INUI WHOSE MENTORSHIP AND KNOWLEDGE WERE INVALUABLE TO THE MUSEUM

    Oct 01, 2021

    LOS ANGELES - The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) is deeply saddened by the passing of Professor Lloyd Inui who dedicated his retirement to volunteering at the Museum. He served as a volunteer curator and key advisor on Asian American history. Inui, 91, is remembered as an inspiring mentor, teacher and early pioneer in university-based Asian American studies. He helped establish the Asian and Asian Ameri...

  • THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR THE PRESERVATION OF DEMOCRACY AT THE JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM AND ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE-LOS ANGELES ANNOUNCE CALL FOR ARTISTS THAT WILL ADDRESS ANTI-ASIAN HATE AND RACISM

    Sep 27, 2021

    LOS ANGELES - The National Center for the Preservation of Democracy at the Japanese American National Museum (NCPD@JANM) and Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Los Angeles (AAAJ-LA) have announced a call for two artists who will develop new art projects that will explore the theme of anti-Asian hate and racism. The program is funded by the national Artists At Work (AAW) initiative developed by THE OFFICE performing...

  • VIRTUAL TALK—1956 Dodgers’ Tour of Japan: Setting the Stage for Nomo

    Jun 23, 2020

    FREE Join Dodgers’ historian Mark Langill as he shares about the 1956 tour of Japan by the Brooklyn Dodgers which set the stage for many significant moments in baseball history that connected Japan and Los Angeles baseball, culminating in the signing of Hideo Nomo. Learn how the 1956 tour paved the way for visits by Tokyo Giants players in the following years to Dodgers’ Spring Training and by the Dodgers t...

  • Jewelry Workshop—The World of "Washi": Beginner Class

    Nov 03, 2018 - Nov 04, 2018

    SOLD OUT Saturday–Sunday, November 3–4 11 a.m.–4 p.m. Instructor Reiko Nakano will teach participants how to make a necklace of hand-made washi beads floating on a silk thread anchored by tiny knots, along with a playful keychain. Techniques will include washi-wrapping, looping, and wrapping wire. Please bring sharp scissors, a shoebox for supplies, a snack, and a desire to learn. Additional ma...

  • Shibori Fusion: Techniques of Yesterday and Today

    Jan 24, 2015 - Jan 25, 2015

    This program is sold out. Saturday–Sunday, January 24–25, 11:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. In this two-day workshop led by Shibori Girl (Glennis Dolce), participants will use various resist dyeing techniques on silks, including recycled kimono silks, to create a fabric collection and a scarf. Stitching, wrapping, clamping, and binding will be covered. Samples and books will be on hand for inspiration. New and ret...

  • Camera in Camp: Bill Manbo's Photographs of Heart Mountain

    Aug 30, 2014

    Historian Jasmine Alinder will give a lecture on photography and Japanese American incarceration that will feature the work of Bill Manbo who was imprisoned in Heart Mountain. Alinder will place Manbo's rare color photographs in the context of work by other famous photographers of that time including Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Carl Iwasaki. Alinder is author of Moving Images: Photography and ...

  • Breaking Silences: Uncovering Memories of Japanese American Imprisonment

    Mar 15, 2014

    In this intergenerational reading, Sansei poet and editor, Brian Komei Dempster, will discuss his community-based writing projects and anthologies, in which Japanese Americans—mostly Nisei—tell their stories of wartime incarceration and post-war resettlement. Dempster will also read poems from his debut collection, Topaz, which looks at the legacy of the camp experience and its impact on younger generations. Joini...

  • A Special Screening of Mamo's Weeds

    Aug 25, 2007

    Produced by the National Museum's Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center, Mamo's Weeds is about Mamo Ikeda, a Kibei gardener, besieged with a destructive weed epidemic and a series of strange phone calls. In his search for answers -- from the Southern California Gardeners' Federation to a retro Little Tokyo chop suey house to the lawns of Japanese American neighborhoods -- Mamo finds that the weeds are keys to both his pa...

  • Reflections on the 60th Anniversary of the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Spoken Word Program

    Aug 09, 2005

    The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki will forever remain an object of deep reflection. To mark the 60th anniversary of those fateful days, the National Museum's Art Director, Clement Hanami, installs his stirring work, Fat Man/Little Boy in the Aratani Central Hall. The day will end with spoken word performances and messages of peace.