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  • Film Screening and Discussion—"Resistance at Tule Lake"

    Feb 10, 2018

    If you missed the program, you can watch it online on JANM’s YouTube channel. This new documentary from director/producer Konrad Aderer tells the long-suppressed story of 12,000 Japanese Americans who dared to resist the US government’s program of mass incarceration during World War II. Giving voice to experiences that have been marginalized for over 70 years, the film challenges the nationalist...

  • 2016 Gala Dinner, Silent Auction, and After Party

    Mar 19, 2016

    Moving Images, Telling Stories Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Suites, Los Angeles (Please note new venue.) Film and video are powerful tools used for generations to document, reflect, and influence people and culture. The Japanese American National Museum’s 2016 Gala Dinner will focus on the museum’s significant collection of moving images and how these compelling first-person resources have helped portray...

  • Asian Pacific Islander Festival: "Conscience and the Constitution"

    May 12, 2012

    Award-winning film by Frank Abe that provoked controversy nationwide for documenting the untold story of the largest organized resistance to the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans, and the suppression of that resistance by Japanese American leaders. Screening includes new featurette, “The JACL Apologizes.” Q&A with the filmmaker and DVD signing will follow the screening. Purchase the DVD from the Museu...

  • Night & the City: L.A. Noir in Poetry, Fiction, & Film

    Oct 29, 2011

    As part of the citywide event produced by The Los Angeles Poetry Festival and Beyond Baroque, the National Museum presents Naomi Hirahara, author of Snakeskin Shamisen and other books featuring gardener and sleuth Masuo Arai, and poet Carol Lem, author of Gathering the Pieces and other collections, whose recent poems investigate family secrets and shady activities.

  • Fighting for Democracy Pre-visit Workshop

    Sep 17, 2009

    Sign-up for a FREE Pre-Visit Workshop Thursday, September 17, 4:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m. (Dinner provided) WHAT IS FIGHTING FOR DEMOCRACY? For hundreds of years people have sought a home and future in the United States of America. They came, and still come, in pursuit of freedom and democracy. Yet, the dream of democracy is not without its struggle. Against the backdrop of World War II, a segregated America,...

  • Bringing the Circle Together: When your Hands are Tied

    Jul 16, 2009

    Free Screening of When your Hands are Tied Since native youth do not often see reflections of themselves or their communities in mainstream media, When your Hands are Tied explores and documents native young people and role models who are finding exciting and positive ways to direct their lives through self-motivation in combination with traditional teachings to help prepare for the challenges of everyday life. Sp...

  • "Una Storia Segreta: A Discussion About the Italian American Internment and Evacuation During World War II"

    Jul 13, 2002

    Lecture and Book Signing Lawrence DiStasi?, editor of the recently published Una Storia Segreta: The Secret History of Italian American Evacuation and Internment During World War II (Heyday Books: 2001), will discuss the little-known experience of the 600,000 Italian enemy aliens nationwide who were variously restricted, interned, and evacuated during the wartime. His remarks will give special emphasis to the experi...

  • FAMILY CELEBRATION OPENS NATIONAL MUSEUM’S MORE THAN A GAME EXHIBITION March 4, 5

    Mar 01, 2000

    LOS ANGELES—More Than a Game: Sport in the Japanese American Community, the new exhibition at the Japanese American National Museum, opens with a sport-filled family festival on Saturday, March 4 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Sunday, March 5 from 12 noon to 3 p.m. Paying tribute to the 70-year old history of Japanese American basketball leagues will be the National Museum’s first Intergenerational Basketball Free Thr...

  • "Storytime at the Museum" Series Premier at Japanese American National Museum May 20

    May 20, 1999

    The "Storytime at the Museum" series designed especially for children ages 3 to 5 will premier at the Japanese American National Museum on Thursday, May 20 at 10 a.m. The "Storytime at the Museum" readings are scheduled to show every third-Thursday of the month when admission to the Museum is free. The inaugural show will feature John Miyasaki, storyteller and Artistic Director of hereandnow theatre co., who will r...

  • Perseverance: Japanese Tattoo Tradition in a Modern World - Artists

    Horitaka (Takahiro Kitamura) Exhibition Curator Horitaka is a tattoo artist as well as the author and publisher of numerous books on tattoo art and culture. His books include Bushido: Legacies of the Japanese Tattoo (Schiffer Publishing, 2001), Tattooing From Japan to the West (Schiffer Publishing, 2004), and Tattoos of the Floating World: Ukiyo-e Motifs in Japanese Tattoo (KIT Publishers, 2003). Horitaka is ...