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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...

Nikkei Uncovered IV: a poetry reading

2024年08月22日

Join us for our fourth annual virtual poetry reading with a powerful lineup of poets previously featured in Discover Nikkei’s Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column, hosted by traci kato-kiriyama, author of Navigating With(out) Instruments. Featured poets are Christine Kitano, Mia Ayumi Malhotra and Matthew Mejia.

Defining Courage at the Ron Robinson Theater (Little Rock, AR)

2024年06月07日

ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY! Friday, June 7, 2024 • 4:30 p.m. Ron Robinson Theater Little Rock, AR Defining Courage is a gripping and emotional journey into the legacy of Nisei veterans, a segregated combat team of Japanese American soldiers that fought during World War II and that remains the most highly decorated unit in US Army history. Drawing upon decades of filmmaking and investigative journalism...

11th Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest Awards Ceremony

2024年06月01日

All of the winning and honorable mention stories will be available on Discover Nikkei. READ HERE Marvel at the amazing ways creative writers and actors expand the fictional boundaries of the Japanese American experience at the 11th Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest Awards Ceremony!2024 marks the 140th anniversary of Little Tokyo, and this year’s event will be a vibrant celebration, its history and culture by t...

Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement at Chicago Asian American Showcase

2024年05月19日

Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement will have its Chicago premiere at the Chicago Asian American Showcase on May 19, 2024. Director Quyên Nguyen-Le and subject Nobuko Miyamoto will join in dialogue at the screening. Experience this new sweeping documentary from JANM’s Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center and PBS SoCal that follows the life of visionary artist-activist Nobuko Miyamoto and her work that changed Asian A...

Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement at CAAMFest in San Francisco

2024年05月11日

Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement will have its Bay Area premiere at CAAMFest in San Francisco on May 11, 2024. Expected guests in attendance: Co-Director Quyên Nguyen-Le, Co-Director/Producer Tadashi Nakamura, subject Nobuko Miyamoto, and composer Derek Nakamoto. Experience this new sweeping documentary from JANM’s Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center and PBS SoCal that follows the life of visionary artist-activis...

Benkyodo: The Last Manju Shop in J-Town at the Doclands Film Festival in San Rafael, CA

2024年05月03日

Benkyodo: The Last Manju Shop in J-Town will be screening at the Doclands Film Festival in San Rafael, CA on Friday, May 3, 2024. The screening is part of the Doclands Education Docshorts. ABOUT THE FILM Ricky and Bobby Okamura, the current owners of Benkyodo mochi shop, make a difficult decision to close their family business. The Japanese pastry shop, a landmark for Japanese Americans and Asian Americans in...

hapa.me at Morikami Museum (Delray Beach, FL)

2024年05月04日 - 2024年08月24日

TRAVELING EXHIBITIONMorikami Museum and Japanese GardenDelray Beach, FL Web: morikami.orgPhone: 561.233.1325 Artist Kip Fulbeck created The Hapa Project in 2001, traveling the country to photograph over 1,200 volunteers who identified as Hapa. The Hapa Project’s goal was to promote awareness and recognition of the millions of Hapas in the United States; to give voice to multiracial people and other previously ignored...

J. T. Sata: Immigrant Modernist

2024年03月15日 - 2024年09月15日

James Tadanao Sata (1896–1975) created some of the most adventurous photographs made in America in the 1920s and ’30s. Abstract spheres and triangles, complex arrangements of figures and shadows, and spaces rich with deep and delicate tones emphasized geometric forms and conveyed newness, modernity, and irony.Sata came to the United States in 1918. Despite his good education and the elevated social status of his samu...

Transpacific Borderlands: The Art of Japanese Diaspora in Lima, Los Angeles, Mexico City, and São Paulo - Extras

Artist Profile Videos In this series of short videos, artists featured in the exhibition discuss their work, their backgrounds, and their identities as Nikkei in Latin America and Southern California. WATCH VIDEOS Click on the links below to view translated transcripts for each profile on Discover Nikkei. English | Español | 日本語 | Português Opening Day Artists Panel On September 17, 2017, JANM ...