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  • THE JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM MOURNS THE PASSING OF ARCHITECT GYO OBATA WHOSE ARTISTIC VISION WAS ESSENTIAL TO THE DESIGN OF THE MUSEUM

    2022年03月11日

    LOS ANGELES - The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) is deeply saddened by the passing of famed architect Gyo Obata, who designed JANM’s 84,000-square-foot Pavilion. Obata was 99 when he passed away on Tuesday, March 8, 2022 in St. Louis, Missouri. Obata was born in San Francisco, California, in 1923. His father, Chiura, was an Issei painter and art professor at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Ber...

  • Two-Day Jewelry Workshop: The Wonderful World of "Washi"

    2019年09月14日 - 2019年09月15日

    Saturday–Sunday, September 14–15 11 a.m.–4 p.m. Washi is a traditional Japanese handmade decorative paper that dates back to the seventh century. Unlike machine-made paper from wood pulp, washi is made from the inner bark of plants such as mulberry, bamboo, and wisteria and hemp. The intertwining of fibers results in a paper that is strong, durable, washable, and acid-free. Its thin, smooth, soft surface ...

  • 2017 Oshogatsu Family Festival—Year of the Rooster

    2017年01月08日

    FREE ALL DAY! Ring in the Year of the Rooster with food, crafts, cultural activities, and performances! Join author Sonoko Sakai for a hands-on onigiri (Japanese rice ball snacks) workshop Watch a rainbow mochi demonstration by Brian Kito of Fugetsu-Do Confectioners Watch Kodama Taiko’s unique mochitsuki (rice pounding) demonstration Japanese drumming performance by TAIKOPROJECT See below for comp...

  • 70 YEARS LATER: THE LESSONS OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 9066

    2012年02月15日

    By Gordon Yamate and Seth Gerber The 70th anniversary of Executive Order 9066 marks one of the saddest tragedies of our great country: the compulsory expulsion from their homes and false imprisonment of Americans of Japanese ancestry on U.S. soil during World War II. The signing of Executive Order 9066 by President Franklin Roosevelt on Feb. 19, 1942, is often seen as the first domino to fall in a chain of xenophobi...

  • The Community Day of Remembrance

    2009年02月21日

    FREE ALL DAY! The Day of Remembrance is held each year to commemorate President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's signing of Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942. EO 9066 authorized the unconstitutional forced removal of 120,000 Japanese Americans from the west coast and Hawai'i during World War II. Mass incarceration of Japanese Americans was accepted by the majority of US Citizens because of the racial prejud...

  • The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa

    2007年03月10日 - 2007年05月27日

    This exhibition represents a retrospective of this Nisei artist's enduring and richly varied career. Born on a truck farm in Southern California, Asawa was incarcerated at Rohwer concentration camp in Arkansas during World War II. In the 1940s, she attended Black Mountain College, the famous experimental art school in North Carolina. The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa begins with her earliest sculptures, drawings, and pa...

  • Film Screening of "Taking Care of Their Own: The Story of Yellow Brotherhood"

    2005年05月12日

    Taking Care of Their Own chronicles the thirty-year evolution of Yellow Brotherhood, an Asian American self-help organization, through its founders who started the group in the 1960s, and their children who carry on its legacy through a youth basketball program. Coming to grips with their parents' unjust camp experience during World War II and overcoming their own struggles with drug abuse and gang violence, the orig...

  • Finding Family Stories (1998)

    1998年01月22日 - 1998年04月12日

    This is the third year of Finding Family Stories, an Arts Partnership Project initiated by the Japanese American National Museum in 1995 to create a dialogue among the diverse communities that shape the state of California. In collaboration with the Skirball Cultural Center and the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, this year’s exhibition presents family stories of the Japanese American, Jewish American, and...

  • Little Tokyo: How History Shapes a Community Across Generations (2025)

    Learn about the intersection of history, culture, and community through a workshop from JANM and the National Endowment for the Humanities: “Little Tokyo: How History Shapes a Community Across Generations."

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    Japanese American National Museum Copyright Policy Notification of Copyright InfringementThe Japanese American National Museum (the “National Museum”) respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects its users to do the same.It is the National Museum’s policy, in appropriate circumstances and at its discretion, to disable and/or terminate the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe or are repeatedly ...