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  • 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...

  • 2022 Los Angeles Day of Remembrance

    Feb 19, 2022

    The annual Los Angeles Day of Remembrance commemorates the signing on February 19, 1942 of Executive Order 9066 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Executive Order 9066 authorized the military to remove and incarcerate persons of Japanese ancestry into American concentration camps during World War II. Focusing on the theme of “Power of Communities: Building Strength Through Collective Action,” this year’s vi...

  • National Day of Remembrance: 80 Years of Reckoning

    Feb 18, 2022 - Feb 20, 2022

    Eighty years ago, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 that put into motion the forced removal and incarceration of 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent during World War II due to “race prejudice, war hysteria, and the failure of political leadership.” On February 18-20, please join the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, National Park Service, Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation, and Japane...

  • JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNOUNCES THEME FOR 2019 GALA DINNER

    Dec 20, 2018

    Los Angeles, CA—The Japanese American National Museum will hold its annual Gala Dinner and Silent Auction on April 13, 2019, at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown. The evening’s theme will be Vision and Commitment: Our Journey of Renewal. It will pay tribute to the museum’s charter members—the first individuals and families to see and believe in the importance of the museum and its enduring role in our democra...