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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 ...

Members Only Film Screening—"For the Sake of the Children"

2017年02月19日

For the Sake of the Children is a new, one-hour documentary that explores the legacy of the World War II US incarceration of Japanese Americans, with a particular focus on its impact on the descendants of incarcerated mothers. The film examines the complex interplay of culture, racial prejudice, history, and intergenerational differences as it traces the life journeys of four generations of Japanese Americans. Ref...

MUSEUM SETS 'MOMENT OF REMEMBRANCE' GATHERING FOR JAPAN VICTIMS ON APRIL 29

2011年04月12日

The Japanese American National Museum with the support of the Little Tokyo Community Council (LTCC) will hold a "Moment of Remembrance" community gathering for the victims of Japan’s natural disasters on Friday, April 29, in the Museum’s plaza, beginning at 2:30 p.m. The memorial gathering will include brief remarks and reflections by Rev. Noriaki Ito of Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple and Rev. Mark Nakagawa of C...

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 ...

Opening of "From Bento to Mixed Plate" at the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan

2001年04月19日

Opening of the exhibition From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i at the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan

Hanamatsuri: The Celebration of Buddha's Birth A Day of Lectures and Activities at Japanese American National Museum April 11

1999年04月11日

The birth of Buddha will be celebrated at the Japanese American National Museum on April 11 from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. with a variety of programs scheduled for both young and old. Included on this special day will be lectures in Japanese and English, a taiko performance, a Hanamatsuri (Flower Festival) service, as well as storytelling and craft activities designed especially for children. Beginning at 11 a.m., ...

The Life and Work of George Hoshida

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The December 7, 1941 attack on the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor, Hawai‘i by the nation of Japan plunged the United States into World War II and irrevocably changed the course of American history. But for thousands of Americans of Japanese ancestry living in the Hawaiian Islands and the mainland, the war highlighted the great divide between their American ideals and their unfair treatment based solely on race. T...

CONTACT—2025 NEH Landmarks Little Tokyo Workshop

Contact information for “Little Tokyo: How History Shapes a Community Across Generations,” an NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture workshop for teachers.

Dodgers: Brotherhood of the Game - Bios

Jackie Robinson Jackie Roosevelt Robinson made a historic entrance into Major League Baseball in 1947 as the first African American player of the 20th century. Robinson won Rookie of the Year honors, an award which today bears his name. But beyond the Hall of Fame statistics and on-field success which helped Brooklyn reach the World Series in six of Robinson’s 10 seasons, Robinson—an alumnus of Pasadena’s Mui...