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  • JANM Free Family Days: Celebrating Family

    2016年06月11日

    FREE ALL DAY In conjunction with the Mixed Remixed Festival, JANM presents a day of activities that explore the meaning of family. ALL DAY ACTIVITIES: Construct a mobile to show what each member of your family means to you. Create a family out of finger puppets. Make a Father’s Day card at Ruthie’s Origami Corner. Use our Instax camera to snap instant photos of you with your famil...

  • Mottainai Yoga with traci

    2016年06月11日

    June 4, 11, and 18 Roughly translated, mottainai means "don’t be wasteful" in Japanese. In this three-session 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 each one-hour class to be both restorative and invigorating, with opportunities to pr...

  • Mixed Remixed Festival

    2016年06月10日 - 2016年06月11日

    Friday–Saturday, June 10–11 FREE Mixed Remixed is an exciting film, book, and performance festival dedicated to celebrating and raising awareness of the mixed-heritage experience. Activities include panels, workshops, readings, and film screenings as well as live music, comedy, and spoken word. Mixed Remixed is timed to coincide with Loving Day (June 12), an annual worldwide commemoration of Loving ...

  • Perseverance at the Middlebury College Museum of Art (Middlebury, VT)

    2016年06月10日 - 2016年08月07日

    TRAVELING EXHIBITION Middlebury College Museum of Art Middlebury, VT Perseverance: Japanese Tattoo Tradition in a Modern World is a groundbreaking photographic exhibition that explores the master craftsmanship of traditional Japanese tattoos and their enduring influence on modern tattoo practices. Even as Japanese-style tattooing has moved into the mainstream, it remains an enigmatic and misunderst...

  • JANM ANNOUNCES INTERIM PRESIDENT/CEO

    2016年06月08日

    Norman Y. Mineta, Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Japanese American National Museum, today announced that Ann Burroughs has been named Interim President and CEO of the museum, effective immediately. For the remainder of his tenure—through the month of June—Dr. Greg Kimura, the outgoing President and CEO, will provide consultation and share institutional knowledge to ensure a smooth transition at the executive...

  • Author Discussion—"Enduring Conviction: Fred Korematsu and His Quest for Justice" by Lorraine K. Bannai

    2016年06月04日

    In 1942, 22-year-old Fred Korematsu refused to comply with orders that culminated in the forced removal of over 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast, resulting in Korematsu v. United States—one of the most infamous cases in Supreme Court history. The court affirmed his conviction, holding that the mass removal of Japanese Americans was justified by military necessity. Forty years later, Koremats...

  • "Common Ground" Exhibition Tour

    2016年06月04日

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

  • Mottainai Yoga with traci

    2016年06月04日

    June 4, 11, and 18 Roughly translated, mottainai means "don’t be wasteful" in Japanese. In this three-session 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 each one-hour class to be both restorative and invigorating, with opportunities to pr...

  • Sadako’s Crane

    2016年05月31日 - 2019年08月31日

    Born in Hiroshima, Japan, Sadako Sasaki was two years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on the city. When she was twelve, she contracted leukemia and was hospitalized. One of her roommates at the hospital told her about the Japanese belief that anyone who folds one thousand cranes would be granted a wish, so Sadako began folding cranes with the hope of recovering from her disease. Sadly, although she folded 1,300 ...

  • 'REMEMBERING MANZANAR' DOCUMENTARY TO BE SCREENED JAN. 30

    2010年01月14日

    The documentary, "Remembering Manzanar", a compilation of rare historic footage, photographs and personal recollections from former inmates of the most famous World War II government-run domestic concentration camps, will be screened on Saturday, Jan. 30, beginning at 2 p.m. at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo. Created for use at the Interpretive Center at the Manzanar National Historic Site, ...