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  • JANM Sets the Record Straight About Comparisons Between the Treatment Received by January 6 Rioters and World War II Japanese American Incarcerees

    Oct 18, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) decries the former President’s comparison of the treatment received by Japanese American incarcerees during World War II to those involved in the January 6 assault on the US Capitol. The comparison was meant to support the former President’s claim that they were unfairly treated by the federal justice system.“We must set the record straight: This is an eg...

  • JANM Awarded a $40,000 grant from Nissan Foundation for Family Festivals and School Visits

    Jul 24, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) was awarded a $40,000 grant from the Nissan Foundation that supports JANM’s award-winning virtual and in-person School Visits programs and free biannual family festivals, including the 2024 Natsumatsuri Festival on Saturday, August 10.“Our award-winning School Visits programs and family festivals not only further our mission but also provide students, edu...

  • Defining Courage at the Ron Robinson Theater (Little Rock, AR)

    Jun 07, 2024

    ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY! Friday, June 7, 2024 • 4:30 p.m. Ron Robinson Theater Little Rock, AR Defining Courage is a gripping and emotional journey into the legacy of Nisei veterans, a segregated combat team of Japanese American soldiers that fought during World War II and that remains the most highly decorated unit in US Army history. Drawing upon decades of filmmaking and investigative journalism...

  • Celebrate Summer with JANM’s Natsumatsuri Family Festival

    Jun 07, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will celebrate summer with its free Natsumatsuri Family Festival on Saturday, August 10, 2024 from 11 a.m.–5 p.m. The Museum’s annual festival features cultural performances, crafts, and activities for families and kids of all ages. Tickets are free and available at janm.org/events. Advance reservations are recommended. A full schedule of events will be p...

  • Community Day of Remembrance—Is It 1942 Again? Overcoming Our Fears and Upholding Constitutional Rights for All

    Feb 20, 2016

    PAY WHAT YOU WISH On February 19, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, making it possible for the U.S. military to forcibly remove and incarcerate 120,000 Japanese Americans solely on the basis of race. Each year, communities across the country hold Day of Remembrance programs to recall this shameful chapter in U.S. history and honor the courage and perseverance of the Japanese A...

  • From Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes: The Modern Science of Origami. A Lecture by Robert Lang

    May 26, 2012

    This program is FREE! The last decade of this past century has been witness to a revolution in the development and application of mathematical techniques to origami, the centuries-old Japanese art of paper-folding. The techniques used in mathematical origami design range from the abstruse to the highly approachable. In this talk, I will describe how geometric concepts led to the solution of a broad class of origami...

  • A Reading of "No-No Boy " by Ken Narasaki

    Oct 31, 2009

    Playwright and actor Ken Narasaki adapts John Okada’s story of Ichiro Yamada as he returns home from prison and struggles to come to terms with his decision to not join the U.S. Army. Read "Tackling No No Boy" by Ken Narasaki on DiscoverNikkei.org to learn more about this play >>

  • JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM PRESENTS TOSHIKO TAKAEZU: THE ART OF CLAY AUG. 6-NOV. 27

    Aug 04, 2005

    The Japanese American National Museum presents Toshiko Takaezu: The Art of Clay beginning August 6, 2005, the first solo exhibition of an artist known for delving into the expressive nature of clay, explorations of closed forms, and innovative painterly glazes. The exhibition features recent works by Takaezu including her signature creation of closed-mouth "pots" which act as three-dimensional canvases; spherical Moo...

  • Making Waves: Japanese American Photography, 1920–1940 - Photographers

    Akira Furukawa • K. Furukawa • Tomishia Furuya • Harry Hayashida • Ichiro Itani • Riso Itano • Shinsaku Izumi • Shigemi Izuo • Morinosuke Kamikihara • Taizo Kato • Seizo K. Katsu • Hisao E. Kimura • Hiromu Kira • Dr. Kyo Koike • Kichiji Kojimoto • Asahachi Kono • F.A. Kunishige • Kusutora Matsuki • Toraji Mayeda • Toyo Miyatake • Yukio Morinaga • Riichi Morita • Takuji Mukai • S. Nakagawa • Kentaro Nakamura • T. Nohi...

  • Boyle Heights: The Power of Place—Stories

    Explore accompanying materials produced for the exhibition: Watch a documentary produced by JANM’s Watase Media Arts Center for the exhibition. Watch a retrospective Q&A presented virtually in 2020, with exhibition/documentary producers and curators Sojin Kim and Claudia Sobral; along with Chicano Artivista Quetzal Flores; musician, writer, and producer Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara; and JANM VP of Exhibitions and...