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  • Poetry Reading and Slides of Art Quilts: What Remains: "Japanese Americans in Internment Camps"

    2010年09月11日

    Margaret Chula and Cathy Erickson make the concentration camp experience come alive in their seven-year collaborative project joining poetry and quilts. Margaret's original poems, diaries, and letters in the voices of people in the camps describe the hardships and emotions they experienced. Cathy has transformed personal stories into quilts through fabric, design, and color. Their presentation shows how two art forms...

  • "Common Ground" Exhibition Tour

    2010年09月04日

    Tour our ongoing exhibition Common Ground: Heart of a Community with experienced docents.

  • PechaKucha Nite -- Innovative Nikkei Projects

    2010年08月31日

    Learn from young Nikkei who are working to engage younger people in their communities through culture and activism. What is PechaKucha 20x20? The Japanese word for "chit-chat", PechaKucha is a style of presentation that limits presenters to 20 images, shown for just 20 seconds each. It encourages people to be creative, while providing opportunities to network and present their projects to others. There will be...

  • Book Reading: " World War II Alien Internment " by John Christgau

    2010年08月28日

    WORLD WAR II ALIEN INTERNMENT BY JOHN CHRISTGAU They were called aliens and enemies. But the World War II internees John Christgau writes about were in fact ordinary people victimized by the politics of a global war. The Alien Enemy Control Program in America was born with the United States’s declaration of war on Japan, Germany, and Italy and lasted until 1948. In all, 31,275 “enemy aliens” were imprisoned in camps...

  • Little Tokyo Walking Tour

    2010年08月28日

    Relive history and learn about present-day Little Tokyo with National Museum docents. $9 Members; $14 non-members, includes Museum admission. Comfortable walking shoes and clothes recommended. Weather permitting.

  • Special Book Event: "The Flowers of Edo "

    2010年08月19日

    In a page-turning novel set during World War II, Japanese-American Lt. Ken Kobayashi must straddle a delicate line between duty to country and honor to his family as he is assigned by General Douglas MacArthur to infiltrate the Imperial Japanese Army in the lead-up to the American invasion of the Japanese archipelago. From the deck of the U.S.S. Yorktown to the halls of the Imperial Ministry of War in Ichigaya in ...

  • Good Food, Classic Recipes & the Remarkable Story of Hawai‘i’s Mixed Plate

    2010年08月15日

    Special Book Talk & Signing of Kau Kau: Cuisine and Culture in the Hawaiian Islands Kau kau: It’s the all-purpose pidgin word for food, probably derived from the Chinese “chow chow.” On Hawai‘i’s sugar and pineapple plantations, kau kau came to encompass the amazing range of foods brought to the Islands by immigrant laborers from East and West: Japanese, Portuguese, Filipinos, Puerto Ricans, Koreans and others. On...

  • Book Reading & Signing: Jive Bomber: A Sentimental Journey by Bruce T. Kaji with Sharon Yamato

    2010年08月14日

    Please join us for a wonderful book reading and signing of Jive Bomber: A Sentimental Journey by Bruce T. Kaji with Sharon Yamato

  • 12th Annual Summer Festival on the Courtyard! Happy Birthday JANM!

    2010年08月14日

    Celebrate summer and the National Museum’s 25th birthday with a day of fun activities, crafts and workshops for the entire family. Crafts for the entire family: Help the Museum celebrate its 25th anniversary and a bright sunny future by making a sun print Celebrate in style by making a fantastically fun party time hat Design a unique birthday card to send to someone on their special day Fun Activit...

  • Japanese American National Museum Sets 10th Anniversary Celebration Gala March 8 At Grand Ballroom At Hollywood & Highland

    2002年03月08日

    The Japanese American National Museum will begin a series of events marking its 10th Anniversary of its public opening by holding its Annual Dinner on Friday, March 8, at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland, 6801 Hollywood Blvd., with dinner to be catered by the world-famous chef Wolfgang Puck. The 10th Anniversary Celebration Gala Dinner and Silent Auction is one of the National Museum’s major annual f...