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  • The Japanese American National Museum Announces 30 Changemakers Under 30 for the Museum’s 30th Anniversary

    Apr 20, 2022

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will honor 30 Changemakers under 30 years old at JANM’s 30th Anniversary Benefit on April 30, 2022. Established in 1985, JANM promotes the understanding and appreciation of America’s ethnic and cultural diversity by sharing the Japanese American experience. JANM opened to the public in the Historic Building, the former Nishi Hongwanji Buddhist Temple, ...

  • The Japanese American National Museum Receives $50,000 from National Trust for Historic Preservation to Help Tell the Full American Story

    Apr 12, 2022

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) was awarded $50,000 for the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Telling the Full History Preservation Fund. The grant is one of 80 given to select organizations nationwide with projects that helped preserve, interpret, and activate historic places to tell the stories of underrepresented groups in our nation. The grant will support the upcoming e...

  • Contested Histories: Art and Artifacts from the Allen Hendershott Eaton Collection

    Apr 08, 2022 - Apr 10, 2022

    Complementing the Noguchi Museum's exhibition ‘No Monument: In the Wake of the Japanese American Incarceration,’ the Japanese American National Museum brings ‘Contested Histories: Art and Artifacts from the Allen Hendershott Eaton Collection’ to The Noguchi Museum for one weekend, April 8–10, 2022. Reservations are free, and include full admission to The Noguchi Museum. This collection of art and craft objects ...

  • Contested Histories at Noguchi Museum (Long Island City, NY)

    Apr 08, 2022 - Apr 10, 2022

    TRAVELING DISPLAYThe Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden MuseumLong Island City, NYFor more information and for advance tickets, visit noguchi.org. Allen Hendershott Eaton’s historic 1952 book, Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps, explored art and craft objects created by persons of Japanese descent while wrongfully incarcerated in the World War II American concentration c...

  • Sutra and Bible Upper Level Members & VIP Reception

    Apr 02, 2022

    Members at the Director's Circle Level and above are invited to a VIP Reception of Sutra and Bible: Faith and the Japanese American World War II Incarceration. See an array of astonishing artifacts: from the prayer books and religious scrolls they carried into camp, to the Buddha statues, crosses, and altars they handcrafted to keep their spirits alive. Evites were sent in early March. By invitation only. Contact ...

  • 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...

  • 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...