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Little Tokyo Drift: Nisei Week Car Culture

2021年08月21日

EVENT UPDATE Due to limited in person capacity, we are now only offering virtual attendance. Please email publicprograms@janm.org to be added to the wait list for in person tickets. FREE Little Tokyo Drift brings together veterans of the Nisei Week cruises and organizers of the Showoff to discuss the history and legacy of nikkei car culture in Los Angeles in a conversation moderated by Oliv...

Discover Nikkei’s Nima Voices: Episode 2—Erik Matsunaga

2020年12月15日

Discover Nikkei is JANM’s international 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, but enlightening,...

Japanese American in New York: Nikkei Trans-regional Dialogue

2020年12月05日

Telling the lesser-known history of Nikkei on the East Coast—a community vastly different from West Coast Japanese Americans—author-historian, consultant, and attorney Daniel H. Inouye explores the unique stories of a divided community of Japanese New Yorkers before World War II. Through a wealth of primary sources, including oral histories, memoirs, newspapers, government documents, photographs, and more, h...

Anti-Asian Racism Past & Present / Our Hopes for the Future

2020年05月28日

FREE During this global pandemic, we hear reports of attacks on Asians and Asian Americans across the country. We are confronted by cycles of blame and fear on those who are perceived to be from China. Asian Americans young and old fear leaving their houses while masked. We also see Asians and Asian Americans speaking out against hate and violence, as well as communities of color rising up with mutual aid effo...

VIRTUAL TALK: Contested Histories on the Road: Part II

2020年05月23日

Experience more of the behind the scenes of traveling the Contested Histories: Art and Artifacts from the Allen Hendershott Eaton Collection special display, from program developer and curator Clement Hanami in this live presentation and Q&A. He will be joined by Nancy Ukai, Project Director of 50 Objects/Stories and a writer and researcher who helped lead the social media protest to stop the Rago auction of the ...

VIRTUAL TALK: Contested Histories on the Road with Clement Hanami

2020年04月30日

Dive into the experience of traveling across the country with the Contested Histories: Art and Artifacts from the Allen Hendershott Eaton Collection special display, from program developer and curator Clement Hanami in this live presentation and Q&A! 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 crea...

Memory Crafting: How Do We Remember the Unspeakable, A Yonsei Perspective

2020年03月07日

SOLD OUT FREE Our community and cultural institutions, researchers, family members, artists, and many others have created priceless archives of Japanese American history. The effort to preserve, with tremendous contributions from many generations in our community, have given Yonsei, Gosei, and future generations important resources to learn and understand our community history, especially surrounding incarcerat...

Author Discussion – "Thirty Minutes Over Oregon: A Japanese Pilot’s World War II Story" by Marc Nobleman

2020年02月29日

Hiroshima. Dresden. London. Brookings? Americans know the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, as one of the most infamous events of World War II. However, few on either side know that Japan also bombed mainland America—twice. Navy pilot Nobuo Fujita launched a seaplane off a submarine—via catapult—and hit the woods outside the town of Brookings, Oregon. No one was killed or even hurt, but all involved wer...

Tatau at the Immigration Museum (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)

2019年05月24日 - 2019年10月06日

TRAVELING EXHIBITION Immigration Museum Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Web: museumsvictoria.com.au/immigrationmuseum Phone: 13 11 02 Outside Australia: +61 3 8341 7777 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...

ZÓCALO—Can Individuals Be Happy in an Unhappy Time?

2018年12月12日

A Zócalo/UCLA Anderson Event at JANM’s National Center for the Preservation of Democracy Moderated by Warren Olney, Host, KCRW’s "To the Point" The pursuit of happiness is foundational to the United States, and happiness has become an international obsession as nations seek to measure happiness and enact policies to increase it. But this is also an era of disruption, dislocation, and great unhappiness...