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  • Edible Adventures: Little Tokyo Sushi Graze

    Sep 08, 2018

    SOLD OUT Dive deep into one of Los Angeles’s most historic neighborhoods while grazing on sushi made by Little Tokyo’s talented chefs. Begin with our "Sushi 101" class to learn about the history and etiquette of this cuisine, then proceed on to stops at several neighborhood restaurants. $64 members; $80 non-members. Food and museum admission included. Limited to 10 participants.

  • "Canefield Songs: Holehole Bushi" Advance Screening and Panel Discussion

    Jul 18, 2015

    The Japanese immigrants who worked on Hawai‘i’s sugar plantations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries sang as they worked, creating a Japanese-American equivalent of "the blues." Called holehole (Hawaiian for dried cane leaves) bushi (Japanese for melody or tune), the songs are a record of the workers’ joys, sorrows, and challenges, providing a fascinating window onto early plantation life. In the ...

  • Japanese Tattoo Live Demonstrations & Lectures

    Mar 08, 2014

    Celebrate the opening of Perseverance: Japanese Tattoo Tradition in a Modern World with live tattooing and lectures led by the artists featured in the exhibition. LIVE TATTOO DEMONSTRATIONS ARATANI CENTRAL HALL Featured artists from the exhibition will be tattooing live, up-close-and-personal, showcasing various forms of Japanese tattooing, including tebori, a traditional Japanese hand tattooing form. Featuri...

  • Fighting For Democracy at National Civil Rights Museum (Memphis, TN)

    May 29, 2010 - Aug 29, 2010

    TRAVELING EXHIBITION National Civil Rights Museum Memphis, TN 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 the “...

  • NATIONAL MUSEUM TO RENOVATE WINDOWS IN HISTORIC BUILDING

    Jan 14, 2009

    The Japanese American National Museum announced that the windows in its Historic Building, the former Nishi Hongwanji Buddhist Temple, will be refurbished, thanks to a grant from the S. Mark Taper Foundation. The S. Mark Taper Foundation, founded in 1989 with the mission to support causes and institutions that improve the quality of life, provided $150,000 to restore the windows that were installed in 1925 when th...

  • Film Screening: Passing Poston

    Jun 28, 2008

    For The Thousands of Japanese Americans Forcibly Interned During World War II, The Scars Have Never Healed. Passing Poston, tells the moving and haunting story of four former internees of the Poston Relocation Center. Each person shadowed by a tragic past, each struggling in their own painful way to reconcile the trauma of their youth, each still searching and yearning during the last chapter of their lives, to ...

  • "Crawling Through Mud: Avant-Garde Ceramics in Postwar Japan".

    Feb 07, 2004

    Lecture by Louise Allison Cort Although Isamu Noguchi interacted with a wide range of artists during his episodes of making ceramics in Japan, his bold experiments with clay had the greatest impact on a group of young potters just starting their careers. Rather than relying on historical models, these artists looked outward across national traditions and boundaries in order to connect their own work to trends in i...

  • Irene Y. Hirano

    Jan 01, 1999

    In the thirteen years since the founding of the Japanese American National Museum, the Museum has grown from an innovative historical museum to an interdisciplinary, international institution dedicated to sharing and celebrating the history and culture of Japanese Americans with people of all backgrounds. To date, the Museum has assembled the world’s largest collection of Japanese American art and artifacts; organize...

  • American Jewish Committee, Japanese American National Museum Issue Joint Statement About Ellis Island Exhibit Set To Open April 3

    Mar 13, 1998

    The Japanese American National Museum and the American Jewish Committee released the following joint statement today: An exhibit—entitled America’s Concentration Camps: Remembering the Japanese American Experience—chronicling the shameful treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II, will soon open at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum. Thousands have already seen the exhibit, which was created by and,...

  • Three California Museums to Collaborate in Arts Partnership

    Aug 01, 1997

    The Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles; Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles and the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, announced they will collaborate in the third year of the Japanese American National Museum’s arts partnership project, Finding Family Stories, funded in part by the James Irvine Foundation. This is the third year of the three-year collaboration between the Ja...