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  • Discover Nikkei Presents a Multilingual Virtual Program on Okinawan Drumming

    2024年02月29日

    LOS ANGELES, CA – Discover Nikkei, a web project of the Japanese American National Museum (JANM), will present the free virtual program Yeisaa nu Chimu-Don-Don: Exploring Cultural Identity through Okinawan Drumming on Saturday, March 9, 2024 at 3 p.m. PST. The program will be simultaneously translated in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. The registration deadline is Friday, March 8 at 10 a.m. PST. Registration is req...

  • Discover Nikkei Presents: From Newsprint to New Media. The Evolving Role of Nikkei Newspapers

    2011年04月02日

    Nikkei community newspapers served an important role for a century as the glue that held together groups of immigrants with news and information about their communities as well as the latest from Japan. Later, their place in the community evolved as they served English-speaking Nisei and Sansei. But in recent years, the media industry has been in an upheaval, and many Nikkei community newspapers have shut down. Jo...

  • 7th Annual Courtyard Kids Family Festival—Ribbits & Rhythms: Kaeru's House of Hop

    2005年08月13日

    The National Museum celebrates the long-awaited return of our favorite kaeru at the Ribbits & Rhythms: Kaeru's House of Hop. All Courtyard Kids and their family and friends are invited to a day of whimsical workshops, dynamic storytelling, and lively music and dance. This year's festival's concert begins with a ceremony welcoming new Courtyard Kids at 4:00 p.m., followed by a concert showcasing youth performing ar...

  • Japanese American National Museum’s History of Collaborations, Breakthroughs, Compiled Into New Book, “Common Ground”

    2005年05月15日

    The Japanese American National Museum, which was incorporated as an institution 20 years ago, has compiled a group of essays on its history, major projects and collaborations into a book, Common Ground: The Japanese American National Museum and the Culture of Collaborations. In 1985, the National Museum had no permanent site nor endowment and only one employee. Thanks to a partnership between a group of Little Tok...

  • "Letters to the Valley: A Harvest of Memories" by David Mas Masumoto

    2005年03月20日

    Sparked by an editor's comment that "creating a good column is like writing a letter to a friend," farmer and award-winning author David Mas Masumoto's column for the Fresno Bee is written in the form of letters. From the unique perspective of a farmer on a working farm, he talks about the deep concerns we all share dealing with change and trying to protect and preserve a way of life. Masumoto's farming and his commu...

  • Fresh Words & Actions: "Manzanar: The Story of an American Family"

    2004年05月20日

    This musical explores the upheaval and discrimination Japanese Americans endured during World War II when the government ordered all people of Japanese descent to be interned. Twelve-year-old Margaret has dreams of becoming a big band singer, but her hopes are shattered by the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Margaret's life is changed forever as she and her family are relocated to the Manzanar concentration camp. Manzana...

  • Conscience, the Constitution and the Japanese American Draft Resistance of World War II

    2001年10月27日

    The emotion surrounding the issue of the Japanese American draft resistance during World War II may be better understood and appreciated by joining us in confronting a controversy that time has not put to rest. A panel moderated by Professor Arthur Hansen that includes Frank Abe, producer of the film Conscience and the Constitution; Professor Eric Muller of the University of North Carolina School of Law, author of Fr...

  • An Afternoon of Nagauta Shamisen Music and Dance

    2001年05月19日

    Featuring: Lillian Nakano, Fujima Ryusei, Tom Kurai and the Sanmi Ensemble (National Museum's shamisen class) The National Museum presents the eighth in a series of shamisen performances by California Arts Council recipients and National Museum resident artist Lillian Nakano. This program is made possible through funding from the California Arts Council. Free with National Museum admission.

  • Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty - Events

    Programs are free for museum members and included with admission for visitors, unless otherwise noted. Listed below are public programs presented at the Japanese American National Museum in conjunction with Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty. To see a complete listing of JANM’s upcoming programs, check out our Events Calendar.

  • The Life and Work of George Hoshida: A Japanese American’s Journey—Bio

    1907–1985 George Hoshida was born in Japan in 1907. In 1912, at the age of four, he immigrated with his family to Hilo, Hawai‘i. It is important to note Hoshida’s age when he made the journey across the Pacific. Although his entire adolescence and adulthood was spent in Hawai‘i, Hoshida was forbidden by law to become a naturalized citizen. Unlike migrants from Europe, immigrants from Asia were restricted from natu...