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  • JSN Career Seeking Event

    Nov 17, 2001

    Presented by Japanese Students Network This unique career event presented by the Japanese Students Network will offer college students an opportunity to meet and interact with leading Japanese and American corporations, not-for-profit organizations and student organizations. Admission is free to registered participants. To register and/or for further information, please contact www.jstudentnetwork.com.

  • 2ND SUNDAY FOR FAMILIES

    Nov 11, 2001

    The Wonderful World of Children's Books What makes a good children's book? How can parents, teachers and librarians introduce children to new and exciting worlds through reading? Join us for a fun and enlightening day that will help to inspire a life-long passion for reading! * Can You Top That?: Illustrating Children's Books With Hector Viveros Lee, author and illustrator of I Had a Hippopotamus and illus...

  • An American Son: The Story of George Aratani, Founder of Mikasa and Kenwood

    Nov 10, 2001

    Meet nisei entrepreneur George Aratani and author Naomi Hirahara as they share the inside story behind the making of An American Son, the inaugural publication of the Museum's American Profiles Series. This biography focuses on George Aratani's journey, which takes him from the fields of Guadalupe and Santa Maria, to the scorching deserts of Gila River, into the Military Intelligence Service, and out into the fast-pa...

  • Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Christmas ornaments

    Nov 10, 2001

    Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Christmas ornaments

  • Little Tokyo Walking Tour

    Nov 04, 2001

    The Little Tokyo community in Los Angeles was once a thriving residential, business, and cultural center of the largest Japanese American community in the United States until World War II. Relive history and learn about present day Little Tokyo with Museum Volunteer Bill Shishima. Comfortable clothes and shoes are recommended. Cost: $5 for Museum members, $11 for non-members (includes Museum admission).

  • Discovering Your Family Tree Workshop

    Oct 28, 2001

    Instructor: Chester Hashizume Discover your long-lost relatives and create your own family tree. This workshop will also teach you how to enter your family tree in the Museum's National Family Registry. Cost: $5 for Museum members, $11 for non-members (includes Museum admission).

  • Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Mizuhiki (ceremonial paper cord) cards

    Oct 27, 2001

    Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Mizuhiki (ceremonial paper cord) cards

  • Conscience, the Constitution and the Japanese American Draft Resistance of World War II

    Oct 27, 2001

    The emotion surrounding the issue of the Japanese American draft resistance during World War II may be better understood and appreciated by joining us in confronting a controversy that time has not put to rest. A panel moderated by Professor Arthur Hansen that includes Frank Abe, producer of the film Conscience and the Constitution; Professor Eric Muller of the University of North Carolina School of Law, author of Fr...

  • Living in Color

    Oct 27, 2001 - Apr 07, 2002

    This exhibition of paintings is the first retrospective survey of the art of Issei painter Hideo Date (b. 1907). Trained in Tokyo and Los Angeles, Date was an influential member of avant-garde art circles in pre-World War II Los Angeles. He belonged to the Los Angeles Art Students League and founded the self-named “Los Angeles Oriental Artists Group.” The outbreak of war took Date from the dynamic and diverse Los ...

  • Cold Tofu Improv

    Oct 25, 2001

    Boo! Share some laughs with some scary Tofu improvisers at Cold Tofu's Annual Halloween Show.