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  • 2018 Oshogatsu Family Festival—Year of the Dog

    Jan 07, 2018

    FREE ALL DAY! Ring in the new year and celebrate the Year of the Dog with fun arts and crafts, food, cultural activities, and exciting performances! Traditional mochitsuki (Japanese rice pounding ritual) performance by Kodama Taiko Drawing demonstration and book signing by Usagi Yojimbo creator Stan Sakai Dog candy sculptures by Shan the Candyman JANM Members Only reserved seating and express lines C...

  • Contested Histories: Art and Artifacts from the Allen Hendershott Eaton Collection

    Jan 07, 2018 - Apr 08, 2018

    Now Traveling!Check the Venues page to see where the pop-up display is traveling.Interested in booking this display? JANM is currently looking for locations in the central valley of California, San Diego county, and parts of Arizona. Download the Contested Histories travel fact sheet or email Clement Hanami at chanami@janm.org for more information. Allen Hendershott Eaton’s historic 1952 book, Beauty Behind Barbed W...

  • Little Tokyo Walking Tour

    Dec 30, 2017

    Relive history and learn about present-day Little Tokyo with JANM docents. $12 members, $15 non-members. Museum admission included. Comfortable walking shoes recommended. Weather permitting. Limited to 20 participants.

  • Little Tokyo Walking Tour

    Dec 23, 2017

    Relive history and learn about present-day Little Tokyo with JANM docents. $12 members, $15 non-members. Museum admission included. Comfortable walking shoes recommended. Weather permitting. Limited to 20 participants.

  • 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...

  • 'YEAR OF THE DRAGON' THEME FOR MUSEUM'S FREE OSHOGATSU FAMILY FESTIVAL ON SUNDAY, JANUARY 8

    Dec 30, 2011

    The Japanese American National Museum’s 2012 Oshogatsu Family Festival is set with the theme, "Year of the Dragon", for Sunday, January 8, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Little Tokyo. The event, which is free and open to the public, features hands-on arts and crafts activities, food demonstrations and tastings and taiko performances. In Japanese culture, the Asian zodiac consists of 12-year cycles, with each year in th...

  • Madame Fujima Kansuma

    Born May 9, 1918, Madame Fujima Kansuma is a celebrated Japanese American kabuki dancer and teacher whose career began in the early 1940s and spanned decades. After studying under the “God of Theatre,” Onoe Kikugoro VI, in Japan, she was requested to perform her pieces in different concentration camps while still incarcerated in Arkansas during World War II. Because she dedicated her life to sharing the culture of ka...

  • Kaiju vs. Heroes

    Two short films produced for the Kaiju vs Heroes: Mark Nagata’s Journey through the World of Japanese Toys exhibition. In the Clutches of Kaiju A portrait of the artist/toy collector Mark Nagata. Directed by Akira Boch and Evan Kodani 2018 7 minutes Nagata 360: A Collecting Mind We invite you to a virtual reality view of artist Mark Nagata’s studio. Get a glimpse into the habitual details of a...

  • Tokio Story

    An experiment in how a memory is remembered, of a floral shop once owned by Japanese Americans Frank and Sumi Kozawa in Silverlake, Los Angeles. With the style of 1920s LA architecture, the building and landscape of Tokio Florist was characteristic to its time, not only in design but also the Japanese American community, who have contributed significantly to the floricultural history of Southern California. While the...

  • Our Man in Tokyo (The Ballad of Shin Miyata)

    A short documentary about the struggles and obsessions of Shin Miyata, a Tokyo-based record label owner and promoter who specializes in the difficult task of distributing Chicano music in Japan. The film explores Miyata’s goal of bringing authentic and diverse representations of Chicano and Latinx culture to Japan. His purity of intention hasn’t brought him financial gain, but has instead delivered a wealth of unders...