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  • Little Tokyo Walking Tour

    May 27, 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.

  • Media Coverage of the Japanese American Incarceration and its Lessons for the Trump Era

    May 25, 2017

    FREE Join Los Angeles Times publisher Davan Maharaj, author and journalist Richard Reeves, author and former Rafu Shimpo editor Naomi Hirahara, and others for a lecture and roundtable discussion on the media’s mistakes during the public hysteria generated by the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 and the lessons learned for our times. Space is limited. This program is free, but RSVPs are recommended using...

  • Legacy Society Tea

    May 20, 2017

    Each year, JANM hosts an exclusive luncheon for the Legacy Society, a group of donors who have included JANM in their will or other estate documents. This year’s event features noted author and law professor Lorraine K. Bannai, who will speak about her work on the landmark Korematsu v. United States coram nobis case. Invitations will be mailed in April. To find out more about the Legacy Society, visit janm.or...

  • Reconstructing Memories: An Art Workshop with Mike Saijo

    May 20, 2017

    In conjunction with Instructions to All Persons, exhibiting artist Mike Saijo will lead this daylong drop-in workshop exploring our connections to history and current events. Photographs of participants will be printed onto pages that they choose from local newspapers and then mounted on wood panels for them to take home. Guests may come and go as they please, but limit is 16 at any given time. No reservation...

  • Perseverance at Canterbury Museum (Christchurch, NEW ZEALAND)

    May 20, 2017 - Aug 13, 2017

    TRAVELING EXHIBITION Canterbury Museum Christchurch, NEW ZEALAND Perseverance: Japanese Tattoo Tradition in a Modern World is a groundbreaking photographic exhibition that explores the master craftsmanship of traditional Japanese tattoos and their enduring influence on modern tattoo practices. Even as Japanese-style tattooing has moved into the mainstream, it remains an enigmatic and misunderstood ...

  • "Moving Day" program presented by JANM

    May 18, 2017

    Each night through August 11, from sunset to midnight, Moving Day presents outdoor projections of Civilian Exclusion Order posters, which were issued during World War II to inform persons of Japanese ancestry of their impending forced removal and incarceration. The date of each projection will coincide with the original issue date of the order being projected. Projections take place on the façade of the museum’s Hist...

  • Members Only Exhibition Tour: "Instructions to All Persons"

    May 18, 2017

    Join John Esaki, Director of JANM’s Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center, for an in-depth gallery tour of Instructions to All Persons: Reflections on Executive Order 9066. Limited to 25 members. RSVP to memberevents@janm.org or 213.830.5646. Members are encouraged to stay after the tour for the Moving Day program.

  • Author Discussion—"Relocating Authority" by Mira Shimabukuro

    May 13, 2017

    If you missed the program, you can watch it online on JANM’s YouTube channel. Relocating Authority: Japanese Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration examines the ways Japanese Americans have continually used writing to respond to the circumstances of their community’s mass imprisonment during World War II. It highlights literacy’s enduring potential to participate in social change and as...

  • Origami with Ruthie Kitagawa: Floral Cards

    May 13, 2017

    Learn to make a floral card, just in time for Mother’s Day. $12 members, $15 non-members. Supplies and admission included. Limited to 10 participants.

  • STATEMENT FROM NATIONAL MUSEUM PRESIDENT & CEO ON JAPAN'S EARTHQUAKE, TSUNAMI DEVASTATION

    Mar 12, 2011

    Dear Friends: On behalf of the Boards of Trustees and Governors, staff, and volunteers of the Japanese American National Museum, I wanted to convey our concerns and sympathies over the unprecedented devastation occurring in Japan due to the earthquakes and tsunami. We all have friends and families in Japan and our greatest hope is that they are safe and unharmed. For those who wish to help in this time of need,...