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  • 2014 Oshogatsu Family Festival—Year of the Horse

    Jan 05, 2014

    Ring in the New Year and the Year of the Horse with fun arts ‘n crafts, food, exciting cultural activities, and performances! HIGHLIGHTS: Onigiri Contest sponsored by Common Grains Candy artist Shan Ichiyanagi Meet & ride real live ponies! Sample traditional Japanese New Year's foods Mochitsuki demonstration by Kodama Taiko See below for complete schedule!

  • "Hiro: A Story of Japanese Internment" by Keiko Wright

    Jul 27, 2013

    A Gold Medal winner at the 38th Annual Student Academy Awards, Hiro is a short documentary explores the life of Hiroshi ‘Hiro’ Hoshizaki. A retired grandfather of six, Hiro was incarcerated at the Heart Mountain Relocation during his adolescence. As we follow him on his own journey to confront the events and memories of his past, we learn of his incarceration and the traumatic repercussions this experience has had on...

  • "Children of Manzanar" edited by Heather C. Lindquist

    Jun 29, 2013

    This program has been cancelled. We apologize for the inconvenience. This book captures the experiences of the nearly four thousand children and young adults held at Manzanar during World War II. Quotes from these children accompany photographs from both official and unofficial photographers, including Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and Toyo Miyatake. These photos and remembrances record a barren world of guard towe...

  • NATIONAL MUSEUM PRODUCES DVDS OF CLASSIC MADE-FOR-TV FILM 'FAREWELL TO MANZANAR'

    Nov 10, 2011

    The Japanese American National Museum announced that it has obtained the licensing rights through the NBCUniversal Television Consumer Products Group to the classic made-for-TV 1976 movie, "Farewell to Manzanar," and has produced DVD copies for sale this fall for the first time ever. Based on the autobiographical book, Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James Houston, the film is a rare Hollywood...

  • Wellness as a Global Solution: A Look at Keiro's Future & 50 Years of Enhancing the Quality of Senior Life in our Community

    Sep 18, 2011

    With one in five individuals over 65, the Japanese American community foreshadows what the rest of the nation will experience in 2050. Learn about how Keiro Senior HealthCare serves as a model of care for a healthy community and how this affects you now, whatever your age! 2011 is the 50th anniversary of Keiro Senior HealthCare, a not-for-profit organization providing culturally-sensitive and person-centered senior ...

  • A Reading of My Man Kono by Philip W. Chung

    Mar 19, 2009

    FREE! East West Players presents a reading of My Man Kono which explores the extraordinary life of Toraichi Kono from a Japanese immigrant to movie star Charlie Chaplin’s assistant to his arrest in 1941 as a Japanese spy.

  • 'DREAMS TO DREAMS' VINYL SHOW FEATURES INTERPRETATIONS OF TRADITIONAL DARUMA DOLL

    Dec 04, 2008

    The Japanese American National Museum in association with Dacosta of Chocolate Soop has unveiled the first custom vinyl toy show in a museum, the "Dreams to Dreams" Custom Vinyl Show, featuring the works of 40 + artists who customized Chocolate Soop’s DCTO (Dream Come True Object), a futuristic vinyl version of a traditional Japanese Daruma or folk toy. The display will be available through Saturday, January 4, 2009,...

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

    Nov 24, 2002

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

  • "Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray"

    Oct 04, 2001

    Elegant and penetrating, Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray positions this immigrant photographer within the canon of American art. In Los Angeles, Miyatake is renowned as a studio photographer. To others he is known for having smuggled a lens and film holder into one of America's WWII concentration camps. Yet it was his little-known artistic pursuits before the war that honed his discerning eye. Join filmmaker B...

  • Reflections: Memoirs of Japanese American Women in Minnesota

    Mar 01, 1997

    Book Reading and Signing John N. Tsuchida, editor of Reflections: Memoirs of Japanese Women in Minnesota, joins the Museum to sign and read from this extraordinary book. This rich anthology of memoirs includes works by fourteen Japanese American women in Minnesota which tells of their experiences and effects of World War II, racism, discrimination, and their endurance, strength, and personal success. Free with...