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  • THE 13th ANNUAL KOKORO CRAFT SHOW IS NOV. 1-15 ONLINE BOUTIQUE ORGANIZED BY VOLUNTEERS FOR JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM

    Oct 25, 2021

    LOS ANGELES - The annual Kokoro Craft Show is back for 2021 as an online boutique for the second year. The event will feature more than 60 vendors selling a wide range of items. “Year after year, our dedicated Kokoro volunteers work long hours to organize this craft show to assist JANM. Their enthusiasm and can-do spirit – even through the pandemic – is a wonderful demonstration of their support and commitment,” s...

  • STATEMENT: THE JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM WELCOMES PUBLIC APOLOGY AND POSTHUMOUS HONORARY DEGREES TO FORMER 1940s USC STUDENTS OF JAPANESE ANCESTRY

    Oct 19, 2021

    LOS ANGELES - The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) welcomes the decision by the University of Southern California (USC) to issue a public apology, and grant honorary degrees posthumously to former students of Japanese ancestry who were enrolled at the college but who were forced to leave when they and their families were incarcerated during World War II. After the war, most did not return to USC and were r...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Day of Remembrance 2017: Unite to Uphold Our Civil Rights

    Feb 18, 2017

    If you missed the program, you can watch it online on JANM’s YouTube channel. PAY WHAT YOU WISH On February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which paved the way for the forced removal and incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast during World War II. This year’s Day of Remembrance commemorates the 75th anniversary of this historic miscarri...

  • "The Untold Story of Ralph Carr and the Japanese: Fate of 3 Japanese Americans and the Internment"

    Apr 28, 2012

    This documentary follows the story of two Japanese Americans who were forced to relocate to Amache, and one Colorado native of Japanese descent who worked for the state government beginning in the Carr administration.

  • JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM NOTES PASSING OF GORDON HIRABAYASHI, CIVIL RIGHTS ICON

    Jan 05, 2012

    The leadership, staff, volunteers and supporters of the Japanese American National Museum extend their sympathies to the family of the late Gordon Hirabayashi, who passed away on January 2, 2012. Gordon Hirabayashi will forever be known as a civil rights icon, who followed his conscience and fought against the United States Government’s unconstitutional forced removal and false incarceration of thousands of peopl...

  • Mago's: Feeding a Generation of Japanese American Activists

    Nov 08, 2003

    Mago’s Famous Hamburgers fast food place, founded on Centinela Avenue in West Los Angeles, served as the gathering place for a generation active in the social and political activities of the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s. The history and life of Mago’s is inextricably tied to the political and social climate of the era. That story will be will be shared in a slide show presentation celebrating Mago’s, which closed a decad...

  • Closing of the exhibition, From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i

    Jun 23, 2002

    Closing of the exhibition, From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i

  • The Kona Coffee Story: Portraits of a Community

    May 10, 1997

    Kona coffee is known world-wide as one of the premier quality coffees on the market, yet little is known about the industry or the people who labor to produce this aromatic coffee. Join life history curator Darcie Iki as she presents a historical portrait of the coffee farmers of Kona by sharing her research and oral history recordings that she conducted in Kona. This lecture includes a slide show of historical photo...