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  • Member Appreciation Days

    2022年05月06日 - 2022年05月08日

    Are you a JANM Member? Join us for MADness 2022! This year M.A.D. will take place from May 6-8 and all current Members will get 20% off discountable items. To receive the special 20% off discount online, enter the Discount code: MADNESS at checkout. If your membership is active in our system your 20% discount will automatically be applied to all eligible items in your order. When placing your order please use ...

  • Exhibition Opening: "Instructions to All Persons"

    2017年02月18日

    PAY WHAT YOU WISH Public opening of the exhibition Instructions to All Persons: Reflections on Executive Order 9066.

  • "Common Ground" Exhibition Tour

    2017年02月04日

    Tour the ongoing exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community with JANM’s knowledgeable docents. Free with museum admission.

  • Mottainai Yoga with traci

    2017年01月14日

    Roughly translated, mottainai means "don’t be wasteful" in Japanese. In this yoga and meditation workshop for all levels, certified yoga instructor traci ishigo invites participants to harness their own inner energy to prevent body, mind, and spirit from going to waste. Participants can expect the one-hour class to be both restorative and invigorating, with opportunities to practice deep stretches as well as ...

  • Kollaboration EMPOWER Conference

    2015年08月29日

    At the EMPOWER Conference, young Asian Pacific Islander professionals from all over the country are invited to learn directly from some of the community’s most inspirational leaders. Attendees will be able to explore a variety of creative career paths and industries, as well as best practices to apply toward making their dreams a reality. The conference will include keynote speeches, panel discussions, mentor...

  • Hello Kitty Shibori Workshop

    2015年03月22日

    This program is sold out. After a brief talk on the connection between Sanrio and Japan’s silk industry, Shibori Girl (Glennis Dolce) will lead participants in designing and dyeing a stitched shibori piece on vintage silk kimono lining fabric in this one-day workshop. Please bring rubber gloves, sewing pins, and scissors. $36 members, $45 non-members, plus $20 materials fee due to instructor at beginning of cla...

  • Japanese American Trivia Challenge

    2012年08月11日

    Date & Time: August 11, 1-2pm Location: Tateuchi Democracy Forum On-Site Registration: 12:30-12:50pm Participate in the JA Trivia Challenge—a game show-style competition where contestants will compete for prizes based on their knowledge of Japanese Americans in sports. Our Discover Nikkei team has put together a fast-paced and highly interactive game with lots of audience participation and prizes! The game wi...

  • A Divided Community—A Staged Reading

    2006年03月11日

    Conceived by Frank Chin, this dramatic reading—based on Chin's book Born in the USA and by Greg Robinson's By Order of the President—focuses on the issues surrounding the U.S. government persecution of Japanese America based on challenges to civil liberties and the resistance to the draft by Americans behind barbed wire. Read by actual resisters, the presentation sheds light on gaps that have divided the Japanese ...

  • "No Sword to Bury: Japanese Americans in Hawaii during WWII", by Franklin Odo

    2004年04月04日

    When bombs rained down on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Japanese American college students were among many young men enrolled in ROTC (Reserve Officer Training Corps) called upon to defend the islands against invasion immediately after the attack. In a matter of weeks, however, the government questioned their loyalty and disarmed them. In No Sword to Bury, Franklin Odo places the largely untold story of these young men in t...

  • California Pacific Cooking with Jozu's Andy Nakano

    1998年02月28日

    Japanese American Cuisine Series Join us as we bring in 1998 with a cooking demonstration of gourmet Pacific California cooking with Andy Nakano, owner of the award-winning restaurant, Jozu in West Hollywood. At age 11, Andy started working in his family’s legendary restaurant, Imperial Gardens on Sunset Boulevard. Don’t miss this special gastronomic treat. Samples are served to all of the cuisine series progr...