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  • Aki’s Market Extended Through February 11, 2024

    2024年01月17日

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) has extended the exhibition, Glenn Kaino: Aki’s Market, through Sunday, February 11, 2024. Aki’s Market is inspired by Akira and Sachiye Shiraishi’s small neighborhood market (1957–1970) in East Los Angeles. Created by artist Glenn Akira Kaino (Akira’s grandson and namesake), the exhibition explores the transgenerational trauma from the World War II J...

  • NBA VETERAN REX WALTERS TO SPEAK JUNE 22 AT JANM FOLLOWING SCREENING OF BASKETBALL FILM ‘CROSSOVER’

    2013年06月18日

    Los Angeles—The Japanese American National Museum presents, Hapa Hoops: Japanese American Basketball and Community with Rex Walters on Saturday, June 22, at 2 p.m. The program, free with admission, consists of a screening of the basketball documentary, Crossover (2000), followed by a conversation with NBA veteran Rex Walters. Directed by accomplished filmmaker, Justin Lin—who recently released his latest film fr...

  • "Hafu: The Mixed Race Experience of Japan" by Lara Perez-Takagi and Megumi Nishikura

    2013年05月08日

    Hafu: The Mixed Race Experience of Japan is the unfolding journey of discovery into the intricacies of mixed race Japanese and their multicultural experiences in modern day Japan. The film follows five hafus – the Japanese term for people who are half Japanese – who are compelled to explore what it means to be multiracial and multicultural in a nation that proclaims itself to be mono-ethnic. This screening is free...

  • "Lt. Watada: A Matter of Conscience". Directed by Oscar Winner Freida Lee Mock

    2011年03月26日

    He’s called a hero, a coward; a patriot, a traitor. How does an Army officer full of promise, praised by his commanders as exemplary with unlimited potential, come to face a felony conviction, a prison term and a dishonorable discharge? “Lt. Watada” tells the story of the first commissioned military officer to refuse to deploy to Iraq and to speak out about his belief that the war is illegal and a violation of his...

  • DOCUMENTARY 'RESETTLEMENT TO REDRESS' TO BE SCREENED, AUTHOR OF BIO ON GOV. RALPH CARR TO SPEAK MARCH 22

    2008年03月07日

    The documentary, "Resettlement to Redress: Rebirth of the Japanese-American Community", will be screened and author Adam Schrager who has written a biography on former Colorado Governor Ralph Carr, the only governor to welcome Japanese Americans to his state during World War II, will speak as part of a public program set for Saturday, March 22, beginning at 2 p.m., at the Japanese American National Museum. This pr...

  • The Art of Gaman: Arts & Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps by Delphine Hirasuna

    2006年04月09日

    Delphine Hirasuna presents a varied collection of artifacts photographed by Terry Hefferman in a tribute to the 120,000 Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II. Hirasuna will speak on the art of gaman, "the art of enduring the seemingly unbearable with patience and dignity"; and on how crafts were produced in camp out of found materials. Objects presented in this colorful anthology are examples of what ma...

  • Hana to Tomo ni: The History of the California Flower Market

    1997年09月13日

    Featuring: Gary Kawaguchi, Ph.D. At the turn of the century, Japanese Chinese and Italian flower growers combined their efforts to wholesale their flowers in the San Francisco Bay area. Join Dr. Kawaguchi as he tells of the hardships and struggles faced for nearly a century by the Japanese American flower growers who continue to dominate the flower industry in the Bay Area. Reservations required. Free with Museum ...

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

    1942 Shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese on December 7, 1941 policemen and soldiers began rounding up “suspects” in Hawai‘i and interning them at Kilauea Military Camp, located near Kilauea Volcano on the island of Hawai‘i. The government feared that people of Japanese ancestry would sabotage the war effort, even though investigators found only one case of disloyalty among islanders. At Ki...

  • Don’t Fence Me In: Coming of Age in America’s Concentration Camps—Resources

    Don’t Fence Me In: Coming of Age in America’s Concentration Camps explores the experiences of Japanese American youth who asserted their place as young Americans confronting the injustice of being imprisoned in World War II concentration camps. Check out our resources including: A video about conserving a Boy Scout drum An activity guide created by JANM’s Education Unit to accompany the exhibition ...

  • A Life in Pieces: The Diary and Letters of Stanley Hayami - Stanley Hayami

    Stanley Hayami was an ordinary American teenager from Mark Keppel High School in Alhambra, Calif. who enjoyed writing and sketching in his diary. Born on December 23, 1925, he was the son of Frank Naoichi and Asano Hayami. Stanley was the second youngest of four children, and in 1941, he was living the life of an average teenager in San Gabriel, Calif. The December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor attack by Japan forever alte...