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  • JANM Book Club with Tritia Toyota

    Jun 23, 2024

    Join Tritia Toyota in conversation with Valerie Matsumoto around Toyota’s new book Intimate Strangers: Shin Issei Women and Contemporary Japanese American Community, 1980–2020, which explores the lives of Japanese women migrating to the US and the specific challenges and trials they faced as both women and recent immigrants.About the book:Intimate Strangers explores the stories of resilient shin Issei women who migra...

  • Two-Day Workshop: Wonderful World of Washi

    Jun 22, 2024

    Two-Day Workshop: Wonderful World of Washi Saturday, June 22: 10 a.m.–3 p.m. Saturday, June 29: 9 a.m.–3 p.m. Explore the wonderful world of washi in this two-part workshop. Learn how to cover a variety of wooden beads with delicate washi (traditional Japanese paper) and create original jewelry by arranging them on beading wire alongside commercial beads. Bring a willingness to learn and leave with a stun...

  • Giant Robot Workshop: Plant Buddies with Sean Chao

    Jun 15, 2024

    Join Giant Robot Biennale 5 exhibition artist, Sean Chao, as he guides you through making a small “plant buddy” out of clay, reflecting on his own miniature sculpture practice. Born in Taipei and based in Los Angeles, Chao is known for his detailed miniature sculptures of polymer clay, bass wood, balsa wood, paper, and wire. This workshop is sold out. Please click the link above to sign up for the waitlist a...

  • J. T. Sata Exhibition: Curator Tour with Dennis Reed and Naomi Hirahara

    Jun 15, 2024

    Join exhibition curator Dennis Reed and special guest, author Naomi Hirahara, for a walkthrough of JANM’s exhibition, J. T. Sata: Immigrant Modernist. The exhibition comprises sixty photographs by J. T. Sata, photographs of Sata’s concentration camp paintings and drawings, and family artifacts from camp. Reed will talk about Sata’s photography and legacy as well as the process of curating the exhibition. Hirahara wil...

  • JANM Urges the Bureau of Land Management to Reconsider the Proposal to Erase Viewshed and Heritage of Minidoka National Historic Site

    Jun 10, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) urges the Bureau of Land Management to reconsider its proposal for the Lava Ridge Wind Project that would erase the viewshed and heritage of the Minidoka National Historic site in southern Idaho. If the proposal is approved, 241 wind turbines that are 660 feet tall would be built within view of the original site of the Minidoka concentration camp. “Bu...

  • Nobuko Miyamoto and Benkyodo Documentaries at HAAPIFEST in Houston, TX

    Jun 09, 2024

    Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement will have its Houston Premiere at the HAAPIFEST on Sunday, June 9. Join Co-Director/Producer Tadashi Nakamura and subject Nobuko Miyamoto for a Q&A and performance. Experience this new sweeping documentary from JANM’s Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center and PBS SoCal that follows the life of visionary artist-activist Nobuko Miyamoto and her work that changed Asian America forever....

  • Defining Courage at the Ron Robinson Theater (Little Rock, AR)

    Jun 07, 2024

    ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY! Friday, June 7, 2024 • 4:30 p.m. Ron Robinson Theater Little Rock, AR Defining Courage is a gripping and emotional journey into the legacy of Nisei veterans, a segregated combat team of Japanese American soldiers that fought during World War II and that remains the most highly decorated unit in US Army history. Drawing upon decades of filmmaking and investigative journalism...

  • Celebrate Summer with JANM’s Natsumatsuri Family Festival

    Jun 07, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will celebrate summer with its free Natsumatsuri Family Festival on Saturday, August 10, 2024 from 11 a.m.–5 p.m. The Museum’s annual festival features cultural performances, crafts, and activities for families and kids of all ages. Tickets are free and available at janm.org/events. Advance reservations are recommended. A full schedule of events will be p...

  • Virtual Book Launch: In Search of Hiroshi with Gene Oishi

    Jun 06, 2024

    Join author Gene Oishi, his daughter Eve Oishi, and scholar Koji Lau-Ozawa to celebrate Oishi’s newly revised 1988 work, In Search of Hiroshi—a powerful memoir about his lifelong struggle to claim both his Japanese and American identities in the aftermath of World War II. About the Book“Can one wreak vengeance against oneself?”This anguished question hangs over Gene Oishi’s powerful memoir about his lifelong struggl...

  • JANM Book Club Hosts Conversation on Tritia Toyota’s New Book about Shin Issei Women

    Jun 06, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) and UCLA will present a conversation with Tritia Toyota and Valerie Matsumoto about Toyota’s new book, Intimate Strangers: Shin Issei Women and Contemporary Japanese American Community, 1980–2020, at JANM on Sunday, June 23, 2024 from 2 p.m.–3:30 p.m. Tickets are $16 ($9 for seniors and students, free for JANM Members) and are available at janm.org/events...