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JANM Statement on Passage of Amache National Historic Site Act by U.S. Senate
2022年02月16日
LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum celebrates the passage of the Amache National Historic Site Act (H.R. 2497) by the U.S. Senate. Amache was one of ten incarceration camps that held nearly 10,000 people of Japanese ancestry during World War II. Bipartisan efforts to preserve Amache began when the site became a National Historic Landmark in 2006. It gained momentum in 2018 when the Amache Study A...
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Occidental College’s Inadequate Response to Anti-Asian Hate Speech on Campus
2022年02月15日
LOS ANGELES – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) is gravely concerned by Occidental College’s woefully inadequate response to a student’s anti-Asian hate speech. This student sent text messages to another classmate in late 2020 that read: “all [A]sian people need to die,” “out of all the people on the planet[,] Asian people seem to piss me off the most,” and “they are responsible for the pandemic so they ne...
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JANM 30th Anniversary Digital Film Festival—Sincerely Miné Okubo
2022年02月12日
FREE Join us virtually for this special screening and Q&A! Presented in response to the new short film “Sincerely Miné Okubo,” join scholars and family of Miné Okubo for a dynamic discussion on her art, humor, and legacy. Maymanah Farhat, Phil Tajitsu Nash, Seiko Buckingham, and Miya Franks will explore elements of Okubo’s life that are often overlooked, in conversation with the filmmakers Yuka Murakami and ...
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Kalief Browder: The Box
2022年02月11日 - 2022年05月25日
The National Center for the Preservation of Democracy at the Japanese American National Museum (NCPD@JANM) is proud to host Coby Kennedy’s Kalief Browder: The Box to commemorate Black History Month in Los Angeles. By replicating the dimensions of a solitary confinement cell, this steel and glass work critiques the abuses of civil liberties in American incarceration systems, introduces viewers to the impacts of mass i...
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Virtual Artist Talk—Inspired by Miné
2022年01月29日
EVENT UPDATE Due to the rapidly increasing COVID-19 infection rates in Los Angeles County due to the Omicron variant, this program will now be held virtually. The safety of our community is of paramount importance to us, as is our obligation as a public institution to do our part to support efforts to inhibit the spread of the COVID-19 virus. We will continue to monitor public health guidelines and reassess a...
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Imagine Little Tokyo 2022 Writing Workshop
2022年01月27日
FREE Join award winning author Naomi Hirahara and Little Tokyo Historical Society leader Mike Okamura for a virtual interactive story writing workshop! Participants will learn tips and get advice for writing short stories that they can submit to the 9th Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest. Presented by Little Tokyo Historic Society in partnership with Discover Nikkei, the purpose of the Imagine Litt...
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Virtual Educator Workshop—Using Miné Okubo’s “Citizen 13660” in the Classroom
2022年01月27日
FREE Join the JANM Education Unit for this virtual workshop on using the art of Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660 in the classroom. Published in 1946, Citizen 13660 was the first book-length acount of America’s concentration camps from the perspective of a former incarceree. Through a series of nearly 200 illustrations, each accompanied by a caption, Okubo documented how World War II and the subsequent incarceration upen...
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THE JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM’S DISCOVER NIKKEI PROJECT ANNOUNCES “WHAT IS NIKKEI FOOD?” PROGRAM
2022年01月25日
LOS ANGELES - Discover Nikkei, a web-based project of The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) focused on promoting connections and understanding among the global Japanese diaspora partners with Junior Chamber International (JCI) Brazil-Japan and Nikkei Australia for a free virtual program, “What is Nikkei Food?,” that will explore Nikkei food and the role that it plays in families and communities around the worl...
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POSTPONED: Conversation on Beyond the Betrayal with Arthur Hansen & Lawson Inada
2022年01月22日
EVENT UPDATE Due to the rapidly increasing COVID-19 infection rates in Los Angeles County due to the Omicron variant, this program is postponed until further notice. All those who have already RSVPed will be contacted when a new date is set. The safety of our community is of paramount importance to us, as is our obligation as a public institution to do our part to support efforts to inhibit the spread of the ...
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ANN CURRY ANNOUNCED AS FEATURED SPEAKER AT JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM’S GALA DINNER
2019年02月20日
Los Angeles, CA—Award-winning journalist and photojournalist Ann Curry will be the featured speaker at the Japanese American National Museum’s Gala Dinner and Silent Auction on April 13, 2019, at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown. Curry, a former NBC News anchor and international correspondent, has reported on conflicts and humanitarian disasters all over the world. She has conducted a long list of exclusi...