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JANM Book Club: Seattle Samurai with Kelly Goto & Dee Goto

2024年12月01日

Join author Kelly Goto for a conversation around her new book, Seattle Samurai: a Cartoonist’s Perspective of the Japanese American Experience. The book pulls together threads of Samurai principles and stories of honor, resilience, and everyday life that were translated from interviews and family stories onto pen and paper. Kelly Goto will be joined by her mother, Dee Goto, whose work with oral history and preservati...

THE JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM TO OPEN NEW EXHIBITION AUGUST 28 “MINÉ OKUBO’S MASTERPIECE: THE ART OF CITIZEN 13660” THAT INCLUDES ARTWORK FOR THE 1946 BOOK SHOWN FOR THE FIRST TIME

2021年08月20日

LOS ANGELES – On the 75th anniversary of its publication, the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will open a new exhibition, “Miné Okubo’s Masterpiece: The Art of Citizen 13660.” This groundbreaking memoir of nearly 200 illustrations, is an insider’s view of the World War II incarceration of Japanese and Japanese Americans – the first book-length account of America’s concentration camps by a former incarc...

JANM VOLUNTEER HAL KEIMI RECOGNIZED AS ‘EVERYDAY ANGEL’ WITH HALO AWARD IN SUPPORT OF NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS

2020年12月03日

Los Angeles, CA—The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) is pleased to announce that it has been recognized with a Halo Award along with its long-time volunteer Harold “Hal” Keimi as an “Everyday Angel” by the Carl and Roberta Deutsch Foundation with a grant of $20,000 and volunteer training support and $5,000 to be used at the discretion of Keimi. Upon hearing about his award, Keimi immediately decided to donate...

Coming Out and Coming Home: Documenting the Voices of Queer and Trans Japanese Americans

2020年09月26日

PAY-WHAT-YOU-WISH $10 suggested donation The Japanese American community has not always broadly welcomed gay, transgender, and queer Nikkei people. It took courage for LGBTQ+ Nikkei to live openly and with integrity in decades past. Hear from four LGBTQ+ Japanese Americans who are forerunners of making Nikkei communities more accepting: Melvin Fujikawa, Gary Hayashi, Bill Tashima, and Mia Yamamoto. They will ...

"The Untold Story of Ralph Carr and the Japanese: Fate of 3 Japanese Americans and the Internment"

2012年04月28日

This documentary follows the story of two Japanese Americans who were forced to relocate to Amache, and one Colorado native of Japanese descent who worked for the state government beginning in the Carr administration.

JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM NOTES PASSING OF GORDON HIRABAYASHI, CIVIL RIGHTS ICON

2012年01月05日

The leadership, staff, volunteers and supporters of the Japanese American National Museum extend their sympathies to the family of the late Gordon Hirabayashi, who passed away on January 2, 2012. Gordon Hirabayashi will forever be known as a civil rights icon, who followed his conscience and fought against the United States Government’s unconstitutional forced removal and false incarceration of thousands of peopl...

Cornerstone Theater Company’s Adaptation of “Farewell to Manzanar”

2006年11月16日 - 2006年12月03日

Award-winning Cornerstone Theater Company actors Page Leong and Leslie Ishii perform an adaptation of the landmark 1972 memoir. The piece captures the novel’s finely crafted prose and elegant imagery and offers a child’s-eye view of the 120,000 West Coast Japanese Americans robbed of their civil rights and incarcerated for the length of World War II in government prison camps. Sponsored, in part, by East-West Eye ...

Mago's: Feeding a Generation of Japanese American Activists

2003年11月08日

Mago’s Famous Hamburgers fast food place, founded on Centinela Avenue in West Los Angeles, served as the gathering place for a generation active in the social and political activities of the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s. The history and life of Mago’s is inextricably tied to the political and social climate of the era. That story will be will be shared in a slide show presentation celebrating Mago’s, which closed a decad...

Closing of the exhibition, From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i

2002年06月23日

Closing of the exhibition, From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i

The Kona Coffee Story: Portraits of a Community

1997年05月10日

Kona coffee is known world-wide as one of the premier quality coffees on the market, yet little is known about the industry or the people who labor to produce this aromatic coffee. Join life history curator Darcie Iki as she presents a historical portrait of the coffee farmers of Kona by sharing her research and oral history recordings that she conducted in Kona. This lecture includes a slide show of historical photo...