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  • Fueled by Fury with Joan Takayama-Ogawa & Renee Tajima-Peña

    2022年11月17日

    FREE In Person RSVP Virtual RSVP Join ceramics artist Joan Takayama-Ogawa and award-winning filmmaker Renee Tajima-Peña for a conversation about using their anger at injustice to create powerful art that inspires social change. This conversation is presented in conjunction with the new exhibition, Joan Takayama-Ogawa: Ceramic Beacon, at the Craft in America Center. Image courtesy of Joan Takayama-Og...

  • 2021 Natsumatsuri Virtual Family Festival

    2021年08月14日

    Celebrate the summer with us in this virtual festival featuring Japanese and Japanese American crafts and activities for all ages.

  • Members Only Meet-and-Greet with Naomi Hirahara

    2021年08月07日

    All members are invited to this exclusive virtual conversation and Q&A with Naomi Hirahara, author of Clark and Division. Set in 1944 Chicago, Clark and Division is the story of a young woman searching for the truth about her revered older sister’s death, bringing to focus the struggles of one Japanese American family released from mass incarceration at Manzanar during World War II. Naomi Hirahara is an Edgar Awar...

  • 7th Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest: A Virtual Celebration

    2020年07月23日

    FREE Each year, the Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest heightens awareness of Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo by challenging both new and experienced writers to write a story that showcases familiarity with the neighborhood and the people in it. Writers from three categories—Adult, Youth, and Japanese language—weave fictional stories set in the past, present, or future. Each category winner will be awarded a c...

  • Transcendients Artist Discussion with Taiji Terasaki

    2020年02月08日

    Join us to celebrate the launch of the exhibition catalog, Transcendients: Heroes at Borders, Los Angeles, in conjunction with the new exhibition, Transcendients: Heroes at Borders. Art critic and curator, Isabella Ellaheh Hughes, will discuss the process of developing the exhibition with contemporary artist, Taiji Terasaki. A light reception and catalog signing with Terasaki and some of the heroes featured in th...

  • Taiji Terasaki: Transcendients

    2020年02月01日 - 2021年05月16日

    “Transcendients” combines two words, “transcend” and “transient.” To me the word speaks to those individuals who have honed their inner beings to find a core of strength—a power they use to muster the support and solidarity needed to make a difference. I think of these “Transcendients” as elegant and spiritual examples of the human spirit who will move us forward to the brilliance of humankind.” —Taiji Terasaki ...

  • "Full Circle"—Mitsuye Yamada’s Book Release Celebration and Multigenerational Poetry Reading

    2019年08月24日

    Poet, essayist, educator, activist, and foremother of Asian American feminism, Mitsuye Yamada will read from her newest collection of poetry, Full Circle: New and Selected Poems. The celebration will also uplift the voices of generations of other Japanese American women writers, including special guests Diane Fujino, Miya Iwataki, Amy Uyematsu, Brynn Saito, and Diana Tsuchida. Live music by Kyoko Takenaka wi...

  • "Moving Day" program presented by Visual Communications

    2017年04月20日

    FREE Each night through August 11, from sunset to midnight, Moving Day presents outdoor projections of Civilian Exclusion Order posters, which were issued during World War II to inform persons of Japanese ancestry of their impending forced removal and incarceration. The date of each projection will coincide with the original issue date of the order being projected. Projections take place on the façade of the museu...

  • Panel Discussion—What Does the Japanese American Experience Tell Us About the Proposed Muslim Registry?

    2017年01月18日

    In advocating for a registry to track all Muslims living in or immigrating to the US, President-elect Donald Trump and his followers are raising the specter of the World War II incarceration, without due process, of 120,000 people of Japanese descent, most of whom were US citizens and all of whom were innocent of any crimes. Even though President Ronald Reagan formally apologized for the incarceration and authorize...

  • 'FIGHTING FOR DEMOCRACY' TRAVELING EXHIBITION TO BE INSTALLED AT MUSEUM

    2011年05月12日

    The Japanese American National Museum will bring home its innovative, educational traveling exhibition, Fighting for Democracy: Who is the “We” in “We, the People”?, as its seventh stop of a national 10-city tour by installing it at the National Museum beginning May 28. Originally created to highlight the stories of seven diverse individuals and their service to their country during World War II, Fighting for Demo...