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  • Virtual Author Discussion—Art, Identity, and Legacy with Brian Komei Dempster and Brynn Saito

    Mar 19, 2022

    $5 General, FREE for Members Join poets Brian Komei Dempster and Brynn Saito in a dynamic virtual conversation and reading about the legacy of Japanese American wartime imprisonment and how it informs the present. Their dialogue will explore these vital, timely themes: What does it mean to inherit the saga of incarceration? How do we process trauma and respond to racism, anti-Asian sentiment, and violence? In ...

  • Nima Voices: Episode 8—Laura Honda-Hasegawa

    Mar 15, 2022

    Free [Language: Portuguese] Discover Nikkei is JANM’s community-based web project sharing stories and the experiences of Nikkei around the world. “Nima” are members of the Discover Nikkei online community. Hailing from all around the world, they each bring unique experiences and perspectives to the site’s rich archive of stories. Nima Voices is an interview series where we uplift our Nima through brief, ...

  • THE JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM MOURNS THE PASSING OF ARCHITECT GYO OBATA WHOSE ARTISTIC VISION WAS ESSENTIAL TO THE DESIGN OF THE MUSEUM

    Mar 11, 2022

    LOS ANGELES - The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) is deeply saddened by the passing of famed architect Gyo Obata, who designed JANM’s 84,000-square-foot Pavilion. Obata was 99 when he passed away on Tuesday, March 8, 2022 in St. Louis, Missouri. Obata was born in San Francisco, California, in 1923. His father, Chiura, was an Issei painter and art professor at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Ber...

  • Book Launch Celebration—RISE: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now

    Mar 04, 2022

    FREE Join for a celebration of the new book RISE: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now by Jeff Yang, Phil Yu, and Philip Wang. RISE is a love letter to and for Asian Americans—a vivid scrapbook of voices, emotions, and memories from an era in which our culture was forged and transformed, and a way to preserve both the headlines and the intimate conversations that have shaped our community in...

  • What Is Nikkei Food?

    Feb 26, 2022

    FREE What differentiates “Nikkei food” from “Japanese food”? Is it how Nikkei families and communities combine traditional foods with local ingredients? How does the food you eat express your cultural identity? How does food help to connect your community and bring people together? What kinds of recipes have been passed down from generation to generation in your family? Join us as we explore what is “Nikkei...

  • Virtual Curator Preview & Gallery Talk—Sutra and Bible

    Feb 26, 2022

    FREE Join Duncan Ryuken Williams and Emily Anderson, curators of the upcoming exhibition, Sutra and Bible: Faith and the Japanese American World War II Incarceration, for a virtual preview of many never-before-seen artifacts that tell the stories of how Japanese Americans drew on their faith to survive forced removal and incarceration at a time when their race and religion were seen as threats to national secu...

  • Sutra and Bible

    Feb 26, 2022 - Feb 19, 2023

    A Community’s Spiritual Journey to Survive From the confines of concentration camps and locales under martial law to the battlegrounds of Europe, Japanese Americans drew on their faith to survive forced removal, indefinite incarceration, unjust deportation, family separation, and war combat at a time when their race and religion were seen as threats to national security. Sutra and Bible explores the role that reli...

  • Japanese American National Museum to Open New Exhibition “Sutra and Bible: Faith and the Japanese American World War II Incarceration” on February 26

    Feb 24, 2022

    LOS ANGELES – From the confines of concentration camps and locales under martial law to the battlegrounds of Europe, Japanese Americans drew on their faith to survive forced removal, indefinite incarceration, unjust deportation, family separation, and war combat at a time when their race and religion were seen as threats to national security. Sutra and Bible: Faith and the Japanese American World War II Incarcera...

  • 120,000 STORIES with Nobuko Miyamoto and Guests

    Feb 19, 2022 - Feb 20, 2022

    FREE Los Angeles’ beloved artist Nobuko Miyamoto presents a genre-bridging concert that draws from her latest album 120,000 STORIES (Smithsonian Folkways), poignantly reflecting her experience as one of 120,000 Japanese Americans imprisoned during World War II. She is joined by producers Quetzal Flores, Derek Nakamoto and a stellar group of musicians who share her belief in the social power of music. With every pe...

  • "AT FIRST LIGHT" DAWNS AT JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM

    May 14, 2019

    Los Angeles, CA—At First Light: The Dawning of Asian Pacific America, a multi-media exhibition that explores and celebrates the emergence of a politically defined Asian Pacific American consciousness and identity, will open at the Japanese American National Museum on May 25 and remain on view through October 20, 2019. The exhibition is a co-production of JANM and Visual Communications (VC), the first Asian Pacific Am...