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Combining Culinary Cultures: A Conversation with Nikkei Chefs from LA, São Paulo, and Lima

2022年12月03日

Join us for a conversation with noted Nikkei chefs—Niki Nakayama of n/naka (Los Angeles, CA, US), Telma Shiraishi of Restaurante Aizomê (São Paulo, Brazil), and Roger Arakaki of Sushi Ito (Lima, Peru). The program will be moderated by Gil Asakawa, author of the recently published book, Tabemasho! Let’s Eat!: A Tasty History of Japanese Food in America. Carole Iida-Nakayama, co-owner and sous chef of n/naka and n/...

NUNO and J-Scent Trunk Show

2022年11月19日 - 2022年11月20日

We are pleased to announce our first post-pandemic, in-person trunk show featuring one of our popular vendors, NUNO! Chad and Charles will be back at JANM with some rarely-offered NUNO clothing as well as the time-honored favorite selection of scarves and shawls (you can see examples of NUNO wares in our catalog.) And joining us for the first time is J-Scent, the fabulous Japanese fragrance maker, creator of uniqu...

The Japanese American National Museum’s Discover Nikkei Project Presents Combining Culinary Cultures: A Conversation with Nikkei Chefs from Los Angeles, São Paulo, and Lima

2022年11月07日

LOS ANGELES, CA – Discover Nikkei, a web-based project of the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) that promotes connections and understanding among the global Japanese diaspora, presents the virtual program, Combining Culinary Cultures: A Conversation with Nikkei Chefs from Los Angeles, São Paulo, and Lima on Saturday, December 3, 2022 from 3 p.m.–4:30 p.m PST / 6 p.m.–7:30 p.m. PET / 8 p.m–9:30 p.m. BRT (8 a.m–...

Premiere Screening and Discussion—“Giant Robot: Asian Pop Culture and Beyond” (ARTBOUND)

2022年10月21日

FREE Join us for the premiere of the new episode of KCET’s award-winning arts and culture series ARTBOUND focused around the influence of Asian American pop culture magazine Giant Robot. A panel discussion with Eric Nakamura, Martin Wong, Renee Tajima-Peña, Dylan Robertson, and James Jean, moderated by Clement Hanami, will follow the screening. Tickets to this program are sold out.

JANM 30th Anniversary Digital Film Festival—Barbara Kawakami: A Textured Life

2022年07月29日

FREE The 2010 JANM exhibition, Textured Lives: Japanese Immigrant Clothing from the Plantations of Hawai`i, was born from a gift by Barbara Kawakami to JANM’s permanent collection of beautiful plantation-era clothing. Kawakami started her formal studies of these textiles and clothing at the age of 53. Now at 100, she is still a noted author, historian, and storyteller who has dedicated much of her life to ...

Screening and Q&A—Who Killed Vincent Chin?

2022年07月14日

FREE Join us for a special anniversary screening of the groundbreaking 1988 Academy Award®-nominated documentary and POV legacy title, Who Killed Vincent Chin? The film relentlessly probes the 1982 murder of Chinese American Vincent Chin while chronicling Helen Zia and a generation of Asian American activists who came together to demand justice. A panel discussion about the implications of Chin’s murder on current...

38th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival

2022年05月10日 - 2022年05月13日

The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (LAAPFF), presented annually by Visual Communications (VC), Southern California’s leading showcase for new Asian Pacific American and Asian international cinema, announced today the program for the 38th edition of the festival. The festival returns May 5–13 in Los Angeles and will feature an exciting lineup of in-person programming, along with virtual programming for our au...

Contested Histories at Noguchi Museum (Long Island City, NY)

2022年04月08日 - 2022年04月10日

TRAVELING DISPLAYThe Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden MuseumLong Island City, NYFor more information and for advance tickets, visit noguchi.org. Allen Hendershott Eaton’s historic 1952 book, Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps, explored art and craft objects created by persons of Japanese descent while wrongfully incarcerated in the World War II American concentration c...

POSTPONED: Conversation on Beyond the Betrayal with Arthur Hansen & Lawson Inada

2022年01月22日

EVENT UPDATE Due to the rapidly increasing COVID-19 infection rates in Los Angeles County due to the Omicron variant, this program is postponed until further notice. All those who have already RSVPed will be contacted when a new date is set. The safety of our community is of paramount importance to us, as is our obligation as a public institution to do our part to support efforts to inhibit the spread of the ...

Hanashi: Preserving the Story of Japanese American Service in the Forgotten War

2014年04月05日

Japanese American veterans will speak about their experiences in the Korean War. Lecture by Professor Kristine Dennehy followed by panel discussion with Korean War Veteran, Thomi Yamamoto and Richard Hawkins, Oral History Program Manager at the Go For Broke National Education Center. Q&A to follow discussion.