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Virtual Educator Open House—JANM Education on the Go

2025年02月13日

Hear about all the programs and resources available to you and your students while JANM is on the go! As our Pavillion undergoes exciting renovations, learn how you can bring JANM directly into your classroom with a Virtual Visit and with any of our FREE digital resources available through janm.org. Connect with the JANM Education team, get answers to any questions you have, and learn how JANM can support your work a...

Breakfast & Ballots (Cal Matters)

2024年10月01日

Do you have questions about the election? How does Prop 5 make it easier for local governments to borrow money? Why would Prop 36 partly roll back another proposition that voters approved in 2014? Join Dan Hu and CalMatters as they analyze and answer your burning questions about this year’s ballot propositions in a conversation around the latest edition of their Voter Guide. This event is free and open to all. Contin...

Asobi at JANM: Paint by Numbers Flat Plants with Scout Regalia

2024年09月19日

Join Makoto Mizutani and Benjamin Luddy of Scout Regalia to create “paint by numbers” SR Flat Plants! Participants will create a flat plant made of intersecting plywood and easy-to-paint guidelines for the ultimate no-maintenance houseplant. Enjoy specially crafted cocktails and mocktails from our neighbors at Wolf & Crane and beer from Brewyard Beer Company. We will also have drinks from Sanzo and light refreshme...

Beauty from Hardship

2024年09月14日

Beauty from Hardship: Storytelling, Art, and Japanese American Resilience Then and NowDiscover how literature, music, dance, and the visual arts capture and make the richness and resilience of the Japanese American community possible with Professor erin Khuê Ninh, Professor Diane C. Fujino, Professor Kim Yasuda, and authors Constance Hays Matsumoto and Kent Matsumoto. Revolving around the themes of hardship and beau...

Discover Nikkei’s Nima Voices: Episode 16—Stan Kirk

2024年06月25日

Discover Nikkei is JANM’s community-based web project sharing stories and the experiences of Nikkei around the world. “Nima” are members of the Discover Nikkei online community. Hailing from all around the world, they each bring unique experiences and perspectives to the site’s rich archive of stories.Nima Voices is an interview series where we uplift our Nima through brief and enlightening interviews. In the sixtee...

"A Principled Stand: The Story of Hirabayashi v. United States" by Gordon K. Hirabayashi with James A. Hirabayashi and Lane Ryo Hirabayashi

2013年09月21日

In 1942, University of Washington student Gordon Hirabayashi defied the curfew and mass removal of Japanese Americans on the West Coast, and was subsequently convicted and imprisoned. In A Principled Stand, Gordon's brother James and nephew Lane have brought together his prison diaries and wartime correspondence to tell the story of Hirabayashi v. United States. A Principled Stand tells Gordon's story in his own word...

"Twice Heroes: America’s Nisei Veterans of WWII and Korea" by Tom Graves

2013年05月04日

Writer and photographer Tom Graves will discuss and read from his new book, Twice Heroes: America's Nisei Veterans of WWII and Korea. Graves spent over a decade interviewing and photographing men and women who served to prove their loyalty to America. The veterans shared their own histories with the author, many revealing their experiences for the first time. Q&A with author to follow. Purchase the book from t...

Closing of the Henry Fukuhara Manzanar Watercolor Workshop display in the National Museum Pavilion

2002年08月18日

Closing of the Henry Fukuhara Manzanar Watercolor Workshop display in the National Museum Pavilion

Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Tsumami Zaiku (traditional Japanese hair ornaments made of silk)

2001年09月22日

Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Tsumami Zaiku (traditional Japanese hair ornaments made of silk)

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

Hear from Emily Anderson, JANM’s curator for Don’t Fence Me In, and incarcerees from the War Relocation Authority camps as they share how Japanese American youth asserted their place as young Americans confronting the injustice of imprisonment in concentration camps. From joining scout troops to sports, social dancing to music, patriotism and life after camp, discover how these Americans used their resilience and...