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  • Members Only Meet and Greet with Lon Kurashige

    2017年03月25日

    Members are invited to an exclusive pre-event reception with author Lon Kurashige prior to the public discussion about his book, Two Faces of Exclusion: The Untold History of Anti-Asian Racism in the United States. Space is limited. RSVP by March 22 to memberevents@janm.org or 213.830.5646.

  • Discover Your Japanese American Roots

    2017年03月25日

    This comprehensive workshop led by genealogy buff Chester Hashizume will teach you to identify your ancestral Japanese hometown, uncover the meanings behind family crests and surnames, learn about conducting research in Japan, and much more. $44 members, $55 non-members. Materials and museum admission included. Limited to 16 participants.

  • Little Tokyo Walking Tour

    2017年03月25日

    Relive history and learn about present-day Little Tokyo with JANM docents. $12 members, $15 non-members. Museum admission included. Comfortable walking shoes recommended. Weather permitting. Limited to 20 participants.

  • Mottainai Yoga with traci

    2017年03月25日

    Roughly translated, mottainai means "don’t be wasteful" in Japanese. In this yoga and meditation workshop for all levels, certified yoga instructor traci ishigo invites participants to harness their own inner energy to prevent body, mind, and spirit from going to waste. Participants can expect the one-hour class to be both restorative and invigorating, with opportunities to practice deep stretches as well as ...

  • East West Players: A Writers' Gallery Reading

    2017年03月23日

    FREE East West Players presents a reading of June is the First Fall, written by Yilong Liu and directed by Jeff Liu. After a painful breakup, a Chinese American gay man returns home to Hawaii, where he must confront his sister, his father, and himself about an unspeakable past that separated them, and a tender family history that held them together. Inspired by a portrait of Afong Moy, the first Chinese ...

  • "Moving Day" program presented by JANM

    2017年03月23日

    Tonight marks the beginning of Moving Day, on the eve of the original issue date for Civilian Exclusion Order No. 1 (issued on March 24, 1942, to residents of Bainbridge Island, WA). Before the projection begins, join us for the first in a special series of public programs. Featured speakers are JANM volunteers Tohru Isobe and June Berk, both camp survivors, who will discuss what it was like to be forcibly remove...

  • JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM TRUSTEES SELECT ANN BURROUGHS AS PRESIDENT AND CEO

    2017年03月24日

    Los Angeles, CA The Board of Trustees of the Japanese American National Museum today announced that Ann Burroughs has been named President and CEO of the museum. Burroughs had been serving in those roles in an interim capacity since June 2016. “Ann has been a skillful leader of the Japanese American National Museum since her first day on the job. She quickly earned the respect and admiration of the museum’s boa...

  • "Moving Day"

    2017年03月23日 - 2017年08月11日

    If you missed the program, you can watch it online on JANM’s YouTube channel. March 23 – August 11, 2017 Daily from sunset to midnight In conjunction with the exhibition Instructions to All Persons: Reflections on Executive Order 9066, JANM presents Moving Day, an outdoor public art installation. The work consists of a series of projections of the Civilian Exclusion Orders that were publicly poste...

  • CURATOR ISHIZUKA TO DISCUSS ORGANIZING HISTORIC 'AMERICA'S CONCENTRATION CAMPS' EXHIBIT

    2011年03月31日

    Author/curator/filmmaker Karen Ishizuka will discuss the development and opening of the Japanese American National Museum’s landmark exhibition, America’s Concentration Camps: Remembering the Japanese American Experience, as well as read from her book on the subject, Lost & Found: Reclaiming the Japanese American Incarceration, at a public program set for the National Museum on Saturday, April 9, beginning at 2 p.m. ...

  • EXCERPTS OF 'HOGOZ', ONLINE COMEDY SERIES SET IN WW II CAMP, TO BE SCREENED APRIL 3

    2011年03月23日

    An online comedy series, "Hogoz", set in a fictional government-run World War II camp, will have excerpts from five of its episodes screened at the Japanese American National Museum on Sunday, April 3, beginning at 2 p.m. with the show’s creator/writer John Powers on hand to discuss his series and to answer questions. Pronounced "hoe-goes", the series creates a fictional situation based on actual history. During W...