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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...

JANM Book Club: ac•tiv•ist with Warren Furutani

2023年02月25日

Tickets to this program include admission to JANM for Saturday, February 25, 2023. Pricing reflects general museum admission pricing. Learn more about visiting JANM at janm.org/visit. Join longtime activist, elected official, and community member Warren T. Furutani for the launch of his new memoir, ac•tiv•ist, noun: a person who works to bring about political or social change. In his book, Furutani explor...

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 ...

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 ...

Virtual Educator Workshop—Using Miné Okubo’s “Citizen 13660” in the Classroom

2022年01月27日

FREE Join the JANM Education Unit for this virtual workshop on using the art of Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660 in the classroom. Published in 1946, Citizen 13660 was the first book-length acount of America’s concentration camps from the perspective of a former incarceree. Through a series of nearly 200 illustrations, each accompanied by a caption, Okubo documented how World War II and the subsequent incarceration upen...

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...

Tatau at the Bishop Museum (Honolulu, HI)

2021年11月13日 - 2022年07月04日

TRAVELING EXHIBITION Bishop Museum Honolulu, HI Web: bishopmuseum.org/tatau Phone: 808.847.3511 Tatau: Marks of Polynesia explores the beauty of Samoan tattoos as well as the key role they play in the preservation and propagation of Samoan culture. Through photographs taken in the studio and on location in Samoa and elsewhere, Tatau showcases the work of traditional Samoan tattoo masters alongside...

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...

Not Yo’ Butterfly with Nobuko Miyamoto (ft. Quetzal Flores)

2021年07月10日

$10 general / FREE for members Join Nobuko Miyamoto for a virtual celebration of her new album and memoir! She will be joined in conversation and performance by Quetzal Flores via Zoom. About the book: Not Yo’ Butterfly: My Long Song of Relocation, Race, Love, and Revolution, a new memoir, is the intimate and unflinching life story of Miyamoto—artist, activist, and mother. Beginning with the harrowing...