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  • Discovering Your Family Tree Workshop (Instructor: Chester Hashizume)

    Jun 27, 2004

    This workshop will provide tips on creating your own family tree and will offer sources of information to help identify ancestors and relatives in Japan. You will also learn to access your family tree in the National Museum's Family Registry. Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes Museum admission.

  • Taiko Jam Session with Hydaiko

    Jun 27, 2004

    Please refer to the May 2 calendar listing for further information.

  • Craft Class with Ryosen Shibata: Cut Paper Flower Pop-Up Cards

    Jun 26, 2004

    Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes Museum admission and supplies. Reservations are recommended.

  • Family Day: "Journeys: The Issei Story"

    Jun 26, 2004

    Allen Say's touching tale of his grandfather's travels to America and his love for both America and Japan in Grandfather's Journey will serve as a basis for understanding the immigrant experience. Children and their families will have an opportunity to create a book recounting their own stories. Participants will also don period costumes and use their imagination to travel back in time to the early 1900s. Especially ...

  • Little Tokyo Walking Tour

    Jun 19, 2004

    Please refer to the April 17 calendar listing for further information.

  • Fresh Words & Actions: "Mixed Messages", by Cherylene Lee

    Jun 17, 2004

    When a physical anthropologist of mixed ethnicity (Chinese, Japanese, British) discovers that her skull proportions bear a remarkable similarity to La Brea Woman, a nine thousand-year-old fossil, she believes she has found an important clue that will revolutionize the accepted theory of when and how humans first arrived in North America. Her research is complicated when a mixed descendant of the Chumash tribe wants L...

  • Craft Class with Ryosen Shibata: Mizuhiki (Kumi-himo) Decorative Cards

    Jun 12, 2004

    Create unique crafts with thread, paper, and cords. Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes Museum admission and supplies. Reservations are recommended.

  • "21st Century Manzanar", by Perry Miyake

    May 23, 2004

    When the economy goes sour, World War III turns into an economic war with Japan. All Japanese products, investments, and people are banned. The propaganda/advertising machine gets cranked up and old prejudices resurface against Americans of Japanese ancestry. Executive Order 9066 is reinstated and all Japanese Americans are ordered to abandon their jobs, homes, schools, and their country and report to the resurrec...

  • Craft Class with Ryosen Shibata: Origami Boxes and Flowers

    May 22, 2004

    Design multi-colored boxes and flowers perfect for gift giving. Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes Museum admission and supplies. Reservations are recommended.

  • Fresh Words & Actions: "Manzanar: The Story of an American Family"

    May 20, 2004

    This musical explores the upheaval and discrimination Japanese Americans endured during World War II when the government ordered all people of Japanese descent to be interned. Twelve-year-old Margaret has dreams of becoming a big band singer, but her hopes are shattered by the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Margaret's life is changed forever as she and her family are relocated to the Manzanar concentration camp. Manzana...