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Yeisaa nu Chimu-Don-Don: Exploring Cultural Identity through Okinawan Drumming
Mar 09, 2024
Eisa is a traditional Okinawan folk dance and musical performance to honor the spirit of Okinawan ancestors. As Okinawans migrated and settled all over the world, their music and dance traditions traveled with them. Join us for a conversation and Q&A with members of contemporary eisa groups—Lisa Tamashiro Maumalanga (Chinagu Eisa Hawaii), Rentaro Suzuki (Ryukyukoku Matsuri Daiko Los Angeles Branch), John Azama...
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Our Fragile Democracy: Historic and Present-Day Attacks on Our Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Feb 24, 2024
On August 10, 2023, Attorney General Rob Bonta issued a historic statement and apology acknowledging the complicity of the California Attorney General’s Office in the incarceration and dispossession of Japanese Americans during World War II. Join us for a community education event featuring a fireside chat with Attorney General Bonta and JANM President and CEO Ann Burroughs, a keynote introduction by Don Tamaki, and ...
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Nima Voices: Episode 14—Michael Kenji Abe
Oct 04, 2023
Discover Nikkei is JANM’s community-based web project sharing stories and the experiences of Nikkei around the world. “Nima” are members of the Discover Nikkei online community. Hailing from all around the world, they each bring unique experiences and perspectives to the site’s rich archive of stories. Nima Voices is an interview series where we uplift our Nima through brief, but enlightening, interviews....
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Tanaka Photo Studio
Ongoing
Tanaka Photo Studio: Family, Tradition, Business, and Community Before World War II is an online exhibition that highlights the work of Issei photographer Chikashi Tanaka (1888–1977). Tanaka Photo Studio operated in the heart of Los Angeles’s Little Tokyo from the time he first came to the city in 1912 until he and his family were incarcerated at the Gila River concentration camp in 1942. His photographs capture ...
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JANM Extends the Ireichō to December 1, 2024
Jun 08, 2023
LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) has extended the viewing and stamping of the Ireichō, the sacred book that records—for the first time ever—the names of over 125,000 persons of Japanese ancestry who were unjustly imprisoned in US Army, Department of Justice, and War Relocation Authority camps during World War II, to December 1, 2024. Reservations are required and can be made online at ja...
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JANM Receives $564,837 from the National Parks Service JACS Grants Program
Jun 07, 2023
LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) has received two grants totalling $564,837 from the National Parks Service’s Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) Grant Program. A grant of $414,663 will conserve, reimagine, and protect the Heart Mountain barracks as the centerpiece of the Museum’s new core exhibition, the nation’s largest and most comprehensive exhibition devoted to the Japanes...
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The Japanese American National Museum Condemns Scholastic’s Request to Remove Racism from Author’s Note
Apr 14, 2023
LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) condemns the request from Scholastic’s Rising Voices Library to remove the words “virulent racism” and a paragraph about racism throughout American history from the author’s note in Love in the Library, an illustrated children’s book by Maggie Tokuda-Hall about the World War II Japanese American incarceration. Rising Voices Library pairs diverse books wit...
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Dodgers: Brotherhood of the Game - Store
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Boyle Heights: The Power of Place—Press
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