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  • JANM Free Family Days: Pop Mania

    Nov 14, 2015

    FREE ALL DAY Join us for a day of pop culture-themed activities in honor of Giant Robot Biennale 4. ALL DAY ACTIVITIES: See Giant Robot Biennale 4 and complete our scavenger hunt to win a prize. Make a special custom button with a design started by a Giant Robot artist and finished by you. At Ruthie’s Origami Corner, learn how to fold an origami dinosaur. Contribute your creativi...

  • Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty at the EMP Museum (Seattle, WA)

    Nov 14, 2015 - May 15, 2016

    TRAVELING EXHIBITION EMP Museum Seattle Center Seattle, WA The Japanese American National Museum is now traveling Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty, the first large-scale Hello Kitty museum retrospective in the United States. Organized as part of the global icon’s 40th-anniversary celebrations, the exhibition examines the colorful history of Hello Kitty and her influence on popul...

  • Giant Robot Drawing Party

    Nov 07, 2015

    FREE Bring your sketchpad and favorite drawing instruments for a special drawing party with live music by Goh Nakamura. Giant Robot Biennale 4 curator Eric Nakamura will lead themed drawing exercises with live demonstrations and discussion by GRB4 featured artists Luke Chueh, Mari Inukai, and Yoskay Yamamoto, and other Giant Robot artists. Get inspiration from these exercises, or just hang out and work o...

  • Lecture and Book Signing—"San Jose Japantown: A Journey"

    Nov 07, 2015

    San Jose’s Japantown is one of only three Japantowns remaining in the United States. Begun as an outgrowth of the city’s last Chinatown, Japantown San Jose has a 125-year history that spans two world wars, the Great Depression, Japanese American incarceration and resettlement, and the present day. Authors Curt Fukuda and Ralph Pearce will present a program on the creation of their book, San Jose Japantown: A ...

  • "Common Ground" Exhibition Tour

    Nov 07, 2015

    Tour the ongoing exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community with JANM’s knowledgeable docents. Free with museum admission.

  • Members Only JANM Ghost Stories

    Oct 31, 2015

    It’s Halloween at JANM! Come hear ghost stories from near and far, including some that have taken place at the museum. Join actor Rodney Kageyama, artist Edwin Ushiro, and Cold Tofu Improv members Aaron Aoki, Jully Lee, and Helen Ota for a delightfully scary time! RSVP by October 28 to memberevents@janm.org or 213.830.5646.

  • NATIONAL MUSEUM MARKS PASSING OF TRUSTEE WILLIAM 'MO' MARUMOTO

    Nov 26, 2008

    The leadership of the Japanese American National Museum expressed its sadness at the passing of long-time Board Trustee William "Mo" Marumoto, who died in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, November 25, 2008. The son of Issei immigrant parents, Marumoto, along with his family, was unconstitutionally incarcerated in a domestic concentration camp at Gila River, Arizona, by the U.S. government during World War II. A gradua...

  • 'THE PINK DRESS' PUPPET PERFORMANCE SET FOR NATIONAL MUSEUM DEC. 6

    Nov 21, 2008

    "The Pink Dress", a puppet-theatre performance done in a Japanese Bunraku style and based on a story of a Japanese American teenage girl’s experiences in the World War II domestic concentration camp at Amache, Colorado, will return to the Japanese American National Museum for a single performance on Saturday, Dec. 6, beginning at 2 p.m. The show is being produced by Triumvirate Pi Theatre (Tri-Pi Theatre). Last pr...

  • AUTHOR OPPENHEIM TO DISCUSS BOOK, 'STANLEY HAYAMI, NISEI SON' NOV. 15

    Nov 07, 2008

    Author Joanne Oppenheim will discuss her latest book, Stanley Hayami, Nisei Son, featuring the contents of Hayami’s 96-page diary he kept from 1941 to 1944 at a special public program set for Saturday, November 15, beginning at 2 p.m. at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo. Hayami’s diary is preserved in the collection of the National Museum. It has been made more accessible through the National ...

  • 'BRILLIANT BEATS' THEME FOR TARGET FREE FAMILY SATURDAY NOV. 8

    Oct 31, 2008

    The Japanese American National Museum continues its highly successful public program series, Target Free Family Saturday, with the theme of "Brilliant Beats" for November 8, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The program, which is free to the general public, thanks to Target, will include fun family activities, including hands-on arts and crafts and drumming. Highlighting the day of activities will be two opportunities to be ...