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  • JACSC 2021 Education Conference

    Oct 29, 2021 - Oct 30, 2021

    Please join the Japanese American Confinement Sites Consortium (JACSC) for the second virtual education conference to be held October 29th-30th, 2021! Save the dates for a special event in person at JANM and virtually anywhere the evening of Friday, October 29th and virtual educational sessions throughout the day on Saturday, October 30th. Founded on the idea that we are stronger together than on our own, JACSC ai...

  • Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day Live!

    Sep 23, 2017

    Free admission to JANM all day! In the spirit of the Smithsonian Museums, which offer free admission every day, JANM is once again offering FREE admission all day as part of the annual Museum Day Live! event.

  • "Pacific Citizens" by Greg Robinson

    Dec 01, 2012

    Pacific Citizens collects key writings of Larry S. Tajiri, a multitalented journalist, essayist, and popular culture maven. He and his wife, Guyo, became leading figures in Nisei political life as the central purveyors of news for and about Japanese Americans during World War II. The Tajiris also created the Pacific Citizen, a forum for liberal and progressive views on politics, civil rights, and democracy. Pa...

  • Desire For Magic

    Nov 19, 2011 - Jan 15, 2012

    Created by the University of New Mexico’s University Art Museum, the Desire for Magic: Patrick Nagatani exhibition was conceived as the first comprehensive look at the many and varied projects the artist has worked on since 1978. The exhibition is a unique opportunity to see both the extensive range of Nagatani’s directorial approach and the breadth of his color photography as he addresses issues surrounding the h...

  • Fighting For Democracy at National Constitution Center (Philadelphia, PA)

    Oct 14, 2011 - Jan 16, 2012

    TRAVELING EXHIBITION National Constitution Center Philadelphia, PA About the Exhibition Through the diverse perspectives of seven ordinary citizens whose lives and communities were forever changed by World War II, this exhibition asks visitors to think critically about freedom, history, and, ultimately, the ongoing struggle to live democratically in a diverse America. Fighting For Democracy: Who is ...

  • "I Hotel" by Karen Tei Yamashita

    Sep 18, 2010

    Dazzling and ambitious, this hip, multi-voiced fusion of prose, playwriting, graphic art, and philosophy spins an epic tale of America's struggle for civil rights as it played out in San Francisco's Chinatown. Divided into ten novellas, one for each year, I HOTEL begins in 1968, when Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated, students took to the streets, the Vietnam War raged, and cities burned. As Kare...

  • BOOK PARTY FOR 'IWAO TAKAMOTO: MY LIFE WITH A THOUSAND CHARACTERS' NOV. 8

    Oct 28, 2009

    Co-authors Mike Mallory and Barbara Takamoto will discuss their work on the autobiography, Iwao Takamoto: My Life With A Thousand Characters, and their remembrances of the late pioneer animator Iwao Takamoto at a presentation set for Sunday, Nov. 8, beginning at 2 p.m. at the Japanese American National Museum. Takamoto, who began his career in animation at the Walt Disney Studios, had become famous as the designer...

  • Summer Film Festival: "Crossroads: Boyle Heights"

    Aug 13, 2009 - Aug 23, 2009

    To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center, the National Museum will continuously screen Crossroads: Boyle Heights. This documentary was compiled from life histories of past and present neighborhood residents of Boyle Heights. It was originally produced for exhibition, BOYLE HEIGHTS: The Power of Place (2002), at the Japanese American National Museum. 55 min. [Purchase a cop...

  • America's Concentration Camps: Remembering the Japanese American Experience

    Mar 25, 1998

    PUBLIC PROGRAMS "COMING TO TERMS: The Impact of World War II on American Jews and Japanese Americans Today" Sunday, March 29, 1998 1 p.m.–5 pm New York University Law Library – Greenberg Lounge This public program brings the American Jewish and Japanese American communities together in an examination of the history of each group in relation to World War II. The audience will be engaged in a discus...

  • Sumo U.S.A.: Wrestling the Grand Tradition Opens at the Japanese American National Museum

    Jul 01, 1997

    Sumo U.S.A.: Wrestling the Grand Tradition opens at the Japanese American National Museum, Thursday, July 3, 1997. Adapted and expanded from an exhibition initially mounted by the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawai‘i, Sumo U.S.A. focuses on how Japan’s national sport came to the United States along with thousands of immigrants at the turn of the Century and the important role it played in the Japanese American c...