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  • Interlinking Past & Present: A Conversation and Reading About Race, Religion, and American Belonging

    Apr 02, 2022

    Free While the story of how over 125,000 persons of Japanese ancestry were incarcerated in American internment and concentration camps during WWII has become widely recognized, little has been told about the ways in which Japanese American Buddhists and Christians alike drew on their faith to survive forced removal, incarceration, family separation, and unjust deportation. Join Duncan Ryuken Williams, co-curat...

  • Author Discussion—Writing Heroes with Naomi Hirahara & Sarah Kuhn

    Mar 26, 2022

    Virtual: $5 General Admission / FREE for Members In person: $16 General Admission* / FREE for Members *In person ticket included admission to the museum galleries. Learn more. Join award winning Japanese American authors Naomi Hirahara (An Eternal Lei) and Sarah Kuhn (From Little Tokyo, with Love) in discussion of their recently released books that explore the power of young women and the significan...

  • Members Only Meet-and-Greet: Naomi Hirahara & Sarah Kuhn

    Mar 26, 2022

    FREE for Members All members are invited to this exclusive conversation and Q&A with award winning authors Naomi Hirahara and Sarah Kuhn. Naomi Hirahara is an Edgar Award-winning author of multiple traditional mystery series and noir short stories. Her Mas Arai mysteries, which have been published in Japanese, Korean and French, feature a Los Angeles gardener and Hiroshima survivor who solves crimes. The sevent...

  • The Art of Museum and Memory with Karen Tei Yamashita

    Mar 25, 2022

    Free RSVP for In Person RSVP for Virtual Join us in a celebration of author Karen Tei Yamashita, UC Santa Cruz emerita professor of literature, who was recently awarded the 2021 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from The National Book Foundation, presenter of the National Book Awards. Yamashita will discuss her work and writings, followed by an audience Q&A moderated by Jasmi...

  • JANM Statement on Passage of the Japanese American Confinement Education Act by U.S. House of Representatives

    Mar 23, 2022

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum celebrates the passage of the Japanese American Confinement Education (JACE) Act (H.R. 1931) by the U.S. House of Representatives, thanks to the leadership of the bill’s sponsor Representative Doris Matsui. The JACE Act provides an additional $32 million dollars in funding to the Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) grant program, and $10 million in fu...

  • JANM Statement on Passage of Amache National Historic Site Act into Law

    Mar 21, 2022

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum celebrates the passage of the Amache National Historic Site Act (H.R. 2497) into law by President Biden on Friday, March 18, 2022. This law designates the Amache incarceration site in Granada, Colorado, as part of the National Park System, preserves the site for future generations, and expands the story and history of Japanese American incarceration during World...

  • 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...