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Our Promise Launch Celebration

2023年08月05日

The Japanese American National Museum is amplifying its powerful voice. Our campus and programs showcase how Japanese Americans’ lives, experiences, and culture intersect and resonate with the experiences of marginalized communities in the United States. Our story is an American story. Our founders promised that the Museum would stand as a beacon of civil rights to ensure that what happened to Japanese Americans i...

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...

The Japanese American National Museum Debuts the Miné Okubo Collection on Google Arts & Culture

2022年05月17日

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) is proud to announce the launch of the Museum’s Google Arts & Culture web page, which features the Miné Okubo Collection at JANM, an online exhibition of the same name, and the video, UNBOXED: Miné Okubo’s Masterpiece: The Art of Citizen 13660, from JANM’s UNBOXED series. The online exhibition is included in Google Arts & Culture’s Asian Pacific American ...

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...

Virtual Author Discussion—Art, Identity, and Legacy with Brian Komei Dempster and Brynn Saito

2022年03月19日

$5 General, FREE for Members Join poets Brian Komei Dempster and Brynn Saito in a dynamic virtual conversation and reading about the legacy of Japanese American wartime imprisonment and how it informs the present. Their dialogue will explore these vital, timely themes: What does it mean to inherit the saga of incarceration? How do we process trauma and respond to racism, anti-Asian sentiment, and violence? In ...

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 ...

Screening and Q&A—A Flicker In Eternity

2021年12月04日

A Flicker in Eternity is the coming-of-age tale of Stanley Hayami, a talented young teenager caught between his dream of becoming a writer/artist and his duty to his country. Join filmmakers Sharon Yamato and Ann Kaneko for a Q&A following this screening of their short film. About the Film: Based on Hayami’s own diary, this documentary is the firsthand account of a 15-year-old thrust into the turmoil of Wo...

Educators Workshop—Teaching Hayami & Okubo

2021年10月23日

Join JANM Education department in celebrating two important Japanese American artists featured in the museum’s newest exhibits A Life in Pieces: the Diary and Letters of Stanley Hayami and Miné Okubo’s Masterpiece: The Art of Citizen 13360. Both artists recorded groundbreaking chronicles of their lives in camp, shining light on the first person experiences of Japanese American incarcerees. Teachers and educators a...

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.