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Defining Courage at UC Berkeley

2025年04月04日

Friday, April 4 • 8 p.m.University of California, BerkeleyBerkeley, CA Defining Courage is a journey into the legacy of the Nisei Soldier—Japanese Americans who served in the segregated units of the 100th Infantry Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, Military Intelligence Service, and 522nd Field Artillery Battalion. Produced and narrated by ABC7-Los Angeles news anchor and filmmaker David Ono, Defining Courage h...

POSTPONED: Defining Courage at the USC Day of Remembrance (Los Angeles)

2025年02月19日

This event has been postponed to 2026. Defining Courage is a journey into the legacy of the Nisei Soldier, Americans of Japanese ancestry who served in the segregated military units of the 100th Infantry Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, Military Intelligence Service, and 522nd Field Artillery Battalion. Considered the greatest fighting units in American military history, most have never heard their extraordin...

The Ireichō at the Washington, DC 2025 Day of Remembrance

2025年02月18日

Join JANM in Washington D.C. for a partnership Day of Remembrance (DOR) program with the National Archives, the National Archives Foundation, The Irei Project, and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, and the Japanese American Citizens League about The Ireichō, Book of Names, and the launch of its national tour.Moderated by Dr. Colleen Shogan of the National Archives, the program features panelists ...

2024 JACSC Education Conference

2024年10月04日 - 2024年10月06日

Echoes of Resilience: Imagining the Possible in Preserving Japanese American Heritage2024 Japanese American Confinement Sites Consortium Education ConferenceThis annual event brings together scholars, activists, and community members dedicated to preserving and educating about the history of Japanese American incarceration during WWII. Highlights include a panel on the Irei: National Monument, programmed in collabora...

Glenn Kaino: Aki’s Market

2023年06月30日 - 2024年02月11日

Glenn Kaino: Aki’s Market is inspired by Akira and Sachiye Shiraishi’s small neighborhood market (1957–1970) in East Los Angeles. Created by artist Glenn Akira Kaino (Akira’s grandson and namesake), the exhibition explores the transgenerational trauma from the World War II Japanese American incarceration experience through the stories of Kaino, his family, and the community. It is also an interrogation of the America...

Augmented Reality Exhibition Places Viewers in Midst of WWII-era Forced Removal of Japanese Americans

2022年05月02日

LOS ANGELES, CA – Eighty years ago, during World War II, the U.S. government forcibly removed Japanese Americans from the West Coast, incarcerating 120,000 in concentration camps. This May, an exhibition at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) lets visitors step into those dark days of 1942 through an augmented reality re-creation at the very site where thousands of Japanese Americans living in downtown Los A...

Contested Histories: Art and Artifacts from the Allen Hendershott Eaton Collection

2022年04月08日 - 2022年04月10日

Complementing the Noguchi Museum's exhibition ‘No Monument: In the Wake of the Japanese American Incarceration,’ the Japanese American National Museum brings ‘Contested Histories: Art and Artifacts from the Allen Hendershott Eaton Collection’ to The Noguchi Museum for one weekend, April 8–10, 2022. Reservations are free, and include full admission to The Noguchi Museum. This collection of art and craft objects ...

Hinamatsuri Workshop: "Kokeshi" Doll Art with Mari Inukai

2020年02月29日

SOLD OUT In celebration of Hinamatsuri (Girls’ Day), paint your own prince and princess kokeshi doll set with artist Mari Inukai. Bring pictures of your favorite flowers and textile samples as reference material to paint your doll’s kimono. All generations welcome! Limited to 10 participants, however, to encourage collaboration, guests who wish to work together may sign up as a single participant; each particip...

Hinamatsuri Workshop: "Kokeshi" Doll Art with Mari Inukai

2018年03月03日

SOLD OUT In celebration of Hinamatsuri (Girls’ Day), paint your own prince and princess kokeshi doll set with artist Mari Inukai. Bring pictures of your favorite flowers and textile samples as reference material to paint your doll’s kimono. All generations welcome! Limited to 10 participants, however, to encourage collaboration, guests who wish to work together may sign up as a single participant; each particip...

Becoming a Family Sleuth

1997年05月17日

Workshop for Kids ages 9-12 Kids—explore the excitement of uncovering hidden stories about your own family history! Learn to gather clues from old pictures, attic antiques, and life stories. This interactive workshop will provide hands-on training for children interested in doing oral history. This is the first in a series of two workshops (see June 14 description) and requires the completion of a homework assignm...