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  • Go For Broke National Education Center Homecoming Celebration and Debut of the "Defining Courage" Exhibition

    May 28, 2016

    Join us for an all-day homecoming celebration at Go For Broke’s new headquarters in JANM’s Historic Building, located across the plaza from the Pavilion. Featured will be the debut of their groundbreaking new interactive exhibition, The Defining Courage Experience, which uses the experiences of Japanese American soldiers of World War II as a catalyst to discuss contemporary issues affecting Americans today. The exhib...

  • East West Players Presents a Writers Gallery Reading of "Takarazuka!!!" by Susan Soon He Stanton

    Mar 27, 2014

    FREE JANM and EWP present a reading of Takarazuka!!! by Susan Soon He Stanton TAKARAZUKA!!! tracks the career sunset of Yuko, the star of the Takarazuka Revue, an all-female Japanese performance troupe that has put on melodramatic spectacles for nearly a hundred years. When Yuko is forced to retire, she trades the spotlight for a life in the country, and in the process falls under the spell of a mysterious ...

  • "Hafu: The Mixed Race Experience of Japan" by Lara Perez-Takagi and Megumi Nishikura

    Apr 05, 2013

    Hafu: The Mixed Race Experience of Japan is the unfolding journey of discovery into the intricacies of mixed race Japanese and their multicultural experiences in modern day Japan. The film follows five hafus – the Japanese term for people who are half Japanese – who are compelled to explore what it means to be multiracial and multicultural in a nation that proclaims itself to be mono-ethnic. To RSVP for the event,...

  • A Reading of "All That Remains." Written by Mona Z. Smith and Directed by Traci Mariano

    Jun 04, 2011

    In the autumn of 1969, a young Japanese American man makes a pilgrimage to an ancient forest on a mountain in France where his father was killed in action under mysterious circumstances 25 years earlier, in World War II. As the traveler enters this eerie forest, he is startled to encounter seven men who fought with his father in a celebrated battalion of Nisei soldiers. When the traveler begs to know the true story o...

  • East West Players presents a reading of IXNAY by Paul Kikuchi

    Oct 30, 2008

    Raymond Kobayashi is in the prime of his sansei life when he’s pulled up to Heaven. But when he finds out he’s been scheduled to return as a Japanese American again, Raymond flat out refuses. A comedy about an underachieving Asian who causes major havoc at the Reincarnation Station when he ixnays his Next Life.

  • Craft Class with Ryosen Shibata: Hinamatsuri Origami Dolls -- Part 2 of 2

    Feb 27, 2005

    Part two of this popular craft class. Please refer to the February 26th calendar listing for further information. Note: participants must attend part one.

  • Judgments Judged, Wrongs Remembered: Examining the Japanese American Civil Liberties Cases of World War II

    Nov 05, 2004

    On December 18, 1944, the United States Supreme Court decided the landmark cases of Korematsu v. United States, which allowed the forced eviction of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes, and Ex parte Endo, which forbade the continued incarceration of loyal American citizens. To mark the 60th anniversary of these cases, this conference will provide an opportunity to reflect on the meaning, legacy, ...

  • "The Legend of Fire Horse Woman", by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

    Apr 25, 2004

    In Japan, no Fire Horse Woman could ever dream of marrying. It was a tragic sign, a ruinous birth date that occurred once every sixty years. Though always beautiful, Fire Horse Women were destined to remain untamed by men - and were to be avoided as wives at all cost. An orphan as well, Sayo had two strikes against her. But her loving mentor kept her secrets and made a match for her with the second son of a wealthy f...

  • "Nisei Voices: Japanese American Students of the 1930s Then & Now"

    Feb 01, 2004

    by Joyce Hirohata and Paul T. Hirohata, ed. Foreword by Bill Hosokawa Nisei Voices celebrates the lives and documents the orations of Japanese American valedictorians of California public schools in the 1930s. First published by Paul T. Hirohata in his book Orations and Essays (1935), Joyce Hirohata has reprinted the anthology complete with photographs and interviews. The fifty oration manuscripts provide a rare gli...

  • Kona Coffee House: Songs and Rhythms of Hawai'i

    Mar 27, 1997

    Kona Coffee Story Exhibit Series Performance Featuring: Ainahau O Kaleponi Hawaiian Civic Club The first in a series, “Kona Coffe House” offers the best in Hawaiian entertainment while enjoying the Museum’s own Kona coffee and other Pacific Asian treats. You won’t want to miss this extravaganza of 20 performers who will sing, dance and play traditional Hawaiian music in a special tribute to the Kona Coffee Stor...