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  • Discovering Your Japanese American Roots

    Sep 18, 2010

    Instructor Chester Hashizume leads a comprehensive workshop covering genealogy basics such as getting started, identifying your ancestral Japanese home town, obtaining and utilizing family documents, and determining the meaning behind surnames and family crests--all the tools you need to discover your roots. This intensive session includes a one-hour break. $45 for members and $55 for non-members, includes materi...

  • "Wherever There’s a Fight " by Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi

    Sep 12, 2010

    State and federal constitutions spell out many liberties and rights, but it is people who challenge prejudice and discrimination and transform those lofty ideals into practical realities. In the era of the Patriot Act and polarizing issues such as immigration reform and gay marriage, an appreciation for and defense of civil liberties is as important as ever. Wherever There’s a Fight captures the sweeping story of...

  • Poetry Reading and Slides of Art Quilts: What Remains: "Japanese Americans in Internment Camps"

    Sep 11, 2010

    Margaret Chula and Cathy Erickson make the concentration camp experience come alive in their seven-year collaborative project joining poetry and quilts. Margaret's original poems, diaries, and letters in the voices of people in the camps describe the hardships and emotions they experienced. Cathy has transformed personal stories into quilts through fabric, design, and color. Their presentation shows how two art forms...

  • "Common Ground" Exhibition Tour

    Sep 04, 2010

    Tour our ongoing exhibition Common Ground: Heart of a Community with experienced docents.

  • PechaKucha Nite -- Innovative Nikkei Projects

    Aug 31, 2010

    Learn from young Nikkei who are working to engage younger people in their communities through culture and activism. What is PechaKucha 20x20? The Japanese word for "chit-chat", PechaKucha is a style of presentation that limits presenters to 20 images, shown for just 20 seconds each. It encourages people to be creative, while providing opportunities to network and present their projects to others. There will be...

  • Book Reading: " World War II Alien Internment " by John Christgau

    Aug 28, 2010

    WORLD WAR II ALIEN INTERNMENT BY JOHN CHRISTGAU They were called aliens and enemies. But the World War II internees John Christgau writes about were in fact ordinary people victimized by the politics of a global war. The Alien Enemy Control Program in America was born with the United States’s declaration of war on Japan, Germany, and Italy and lasted until 1948. In all, 31,275 “enemy aliens” were imprisoned in camps...

  • Little Tokyo Walking Tour

    Aug 28, 2010

    Relive history and learn about present-day Little Tokyo with National Museum docents. $9 Members; $14 non-members, includes Museum admission. Comfortable walking shoes and clothes recommended. Weather permitting.

  • Special Book Event: "The Flowers of Edo "

    Aug 19, 2010

    In a page-turning novel set during World War II, Japanese-American Lt. Ken Kobayashi must straddle a delicate line between duty to country and honor to his family as he is assigned by General Douglas MacArthur to infiltrate the Imperial Japanese Army in the lead-up to the American invasion of the Japanese archipelago. From the deck of the U.S.S. Yorktown to the halls of the Imperial Ministry of War in Ichigaya in ...

  • Good Food, Classic Recipes & the Remarkable Story of Hawai‘i’s Mixed Plate

    Aug 15, 2010

    Special Book Talk & Signing of Kau Kau: Cuisine and Culture in the Hawaiian Islands Kau kau: It’s the all-purpose pidgin word for food, probably derived from the Chinese “chow chow.” On Hawai‘i’s sugar and pineapple plantations, kau kau came to encompass the amazing range of foods brought to the Islands by immigrant laborers from East and West: Japanese, Portuguese, Filipinos, Puerto Ricans, Koreans and others. On...

  • Photographic Exhibition “Kip Fulbeck: Part Asian, 100% Hapa” Explores Perceptions of Identity, Questions Notions of Race, Ethnicity

    May 30, 2006

    A remarkable set of photographs of individuals of multiracial heritage and their responses to the most common question asked of people of mixed-race background—“What are you?”—comprises the heart of the thought-provoking art exhibition, kip fulbeck: part asian, 100% hapa, which opens at the Japanese American National Museum on June 8 and runs through October 29, 2006. Three years ago, Fulbeck, who is an award-winn...