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  • JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM MOURNS THE PASSING OF AIKO HERZIG YOSHINAGA

    2018年07月20日

    Los Angeles, CA—The Japanese American National Museum mourns the passing of trailblazing political activist Aiko Herzig Yoshinaga, who died July 18, at the age of 93. JANM honored Herzig Yoshinaga with its Award of Excellence at its Gala Dinner in April. Herzig Yoshinaga was long recognized as a hero of the successful redress campaign that culminated in the passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988. This act prov...

  • Contested Histories at The Japanese American Museum of San Jose (San Jose, CA)

    2018年07月12日 - 2018年07月15日

    TRAVELING DISPLAY Japanese American Museum of San Jose San Jose, CA 12 a.m.–4 p.m. Allen Hendershott Eaton’s historic 1952 book, Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps, explored art and craft objects created by persons of Japanese descent while wrongfully incarcerated in the World War II American concentration camps. It was one of the first books to examine an...

  • Film Screening and Discussion—"Loving (2016)"

    2018年07月07日

    This historical drama is based on the true story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a couple whose 1958 arrest for interracial marriage in Virginia began a legal battle that would end with the Supreme Court’s historic 1967 decision that invalidated state anti-miscegenation laws. Panel discussion to follow screening, moderated by hapa.me creator Kip Fulbeck and with panelists Ken Tanabe and Catherine Leung of Lovi...

  • "Common Ground" Exhibition Tour

    2018年07月07日

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

  • Members Only Exhibition Tour: "hapa.me – 15 years of the hapa project"

    2018年07月07日

    SOLD OUT Join exhibition creator Kip Fulbeck for a gallery tour of hapa.me. Space is limited to 25 participants. This tour is sold out. To be placed on a waitlist, please contact memberevents@janm.org or 213.830.5646.

  • Contested Histories at 2018 Minidoka Pilgrimage (Twin Falls, ID)

    2018年07月06日

    TRAVELING DISPLAY 2018 Minidoka Pilgrimage Twin Falls, ID 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Allen Hendershott Eaton’s historic 1952 book, Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps, explored art and craft objects created by persons of Japanese descent while wrongfully incarcerated in the World War II American concentration camps. It was one of the first books to examine any aspect of...

  • "Common Ground" Exhibition Tour in Japanese

    2018年07月01日

    日系移民と日系アメリカ人の歴史を紹介する常設展「コモン・グラウンド」を日本語でご案内します。 ツアーは無料（入館料のみ）、予約不要です。

  • Legacies of Postwar Japan’s “War Bride” Era

    2018年06月30日

    FREE During and shortly after the US-Allied Occupation of Japan, the Japanese women who fraternized with soldiers often met opposition from their families and were shunned by other Japanese. Many mixed-race children faced severe prejudice for being “impure” and born from the former enemy. This symposium brings together various stakeholders to tell the stories of the war brides and their children. By focusing on...

  • JANM’S 2013 GALA DINNER THEME ‘VISION, VALUES, VOICES’ TO REMEMBER, REFLECT, AND CELEBRATE THE JAPANESE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE ON APR. 13

    2013年04月09日

    Los Angeles, CA - The Japanese American National Museum will welcome close to 1,000 attendees at its 2013 Gala Dinner, Silent Auction & After-Party on Saturday, April 13, 2013. Returning to the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Century City, the Dinner theme, Vision, Values, Voices, will highlight how the National Museum has successfully shared the significance and relevancy of the Japanese American experience to...

  • ‘VISION, VALUES, VOICES’ THEME FOR NATIONAL MUSEUM’S 2013 ANNUAL GALA DINNER ON APRIL 13

    2013年03月26日

    Los Angeles, CA - The Japanese American National Museum will present its 2013 Gala Dinner, Silent Auction, and After Party on Saturday, April 13, 2013 at the recently-renovated Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Century City. This year’s Dinner theme, Vision, Values, Voices, will highlight how the National Museum’s work has successfully shared the first-person voices and evolving perspectives from the Japanese Amer...