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Members Thank You Reception

2024年11月23日

Celebrate our Members’ impact and contributions to JANM through the decades! Learn about the Museum’s engagement plans during the renovation with JANM on the Go and join us for a toast as we mark a historic moment in JANM’s history.The reception will be followed by natsukashii (nostalgic) music, a souvenir photo booth, docent-led tours of Common Ground: The Heart of Community, and a chance for visitors to contribute ...

Go For Broke National Education Center Homecoming Celebration and Debut of the "Defining Courage" Exhibition

2016年05月28日

Join us for an all-day homecoming celebration at Go For Broke’s new headquarters in JANM’s Historic Building, located across the plaza from the Pavilion. Featured will be the debut of their groundbreaking new interactive exhibition, The Defining Courage Experience, which uses the experiences of Japanese American soldiers of World War II as a catalyst to discuss contemporary issues affecting Americans today. The exhib...

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

2013年04月05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. To RSVP for the event,...

East West Players presents a reading of IXNAY by Paul Kikuchi

2008年10月30日

Raymond Kobayashi is in the prime of his sansei life when he’s pulled up to Heaven. But when he finds out he’s been scheduled to return as a Japanese American again, Raymond flat out refuses. A comedy about an underachieving Asian who causes major havoc at the Reincarnation Station when he ixnays his Next Life.

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...

Judgments Judged, Wrongs Remembered: Examining the Japanese American Civil Liberties Cases of World War II

2004年11月05日

On December 18, 1944, the United States Supreme Court decided the landmark cases of Korematsu v. United States, which allowed the forced eviction of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes, and Ex parte Endo, which forbade the continued incarceration of loyal American citizens. To mark the 60th anniversary of these cases, this conference will provide an opportunity to reflect on the meaning, legacy, ...

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...