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  • Big Drum Articles—Shasta Taiko

    The Rhythms of Life: Shasta Taiko “This woman came up to me and said, ‘I don’t know why, but I just burst out crying when you were playing taiko,’” Jeanne Aiko Mercer says. “That happens a lot,” the pioneering taiko artist explains. “I think taiko is very healing. It’s a release, and I think people need that in their lives.” For Mercer and her husband Russel Baba, who founded the renowned Shasta Taiko g...

  • Big Drum Articles—Marco Lienhard

    Marco Lienhard: Bridging Worlds with Music Marco Lienhard may have, at one time, seemed like an unlikely face in the world of Japanese taiko. He was born in Switzerland; he is not Japanese; he is not Asian. However, the rhythmic thundering of the taiko drums have become as natural to him as the sounds of his own heartbeats. Originally from Switzerland, Marco Lienhard joined an exchange program and went to...

  • Sugar/Islands

    Learn more about the artists by exploring the bios, slideshows, and articles from JANM’s Discover Nikkei website below!

  • 30th Anniversary Benefit - Auction

    Auction Preview opens: Saturday, April 16 Bidding opens: Saturday, April 23 Bidding closes: 1 p.m. (PDT) on Sunday, May 1 JANM’s Online Auction is 100% digital and available to preview starting Saturday, April 16, and open for bidding on Saturday, April 23. Know if you’ve been outbid, no matter where you are. Set up automatic bidding and maximum bids to increase your chances of winning with the i...

  • Supernatural

    Learn more about the artists featured in Supernatural through the articles from JANM’s Discover Nikkei website below!

  • Desire For Magic

    Artist Patrick Nagatani When asked how he would describe himself, Sansei artist Patrick Nagatani immediately responds that he considers himself to be, first and foremost, a storyteller. Unlike the traditional photographer who is considered an objective recorder of reality, Nagatani carefully sets the stage for his photographs, collages, and multimedia pieces much like a movie director arranges a set and actor...

  • Portraiture Now - Artists

    Learn more about the featured artists and view their artwork below.

  • Portraiture Now - Extras

    Visit the National Portrait Gallery’s Portraiture Now exhibition site for artist statements and audio interviews: www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/encounter Related Resources on Discover Nikkei Discover Nikkei is JANM’s community website that provides an inviting space for the community to share, explore, and connect with each other through diverse Nikkei experiences, culture, and history. Explore articles a...

  • Visible & Invisible - Exhibition

    INTRODUCTION More and more people are crossing racial and ethnic lines to create new kinds of families. If the future of America is the multiracial and multiethnic family, Japanese America is already there. U.S. Census data indicates that in the very near future, more than half of all Japanese Americans will be racially or ethnically “mixed” or hapa. From the arrival of the first Japanese immigrants in the Amer...

  • Visible & Invisible - Resources

    Hapa Japan Database Project The Hapa Japan Database Project is a forum for connecting mixed-race and mixed-roots Japanese people. The Project sponsors a website with social networking, genealogical, and educational features. They also host a Festival every other year that celebrates this community through concerts, exhibits, comedy nights, film screenings, and academic conferences. Hapa Japan I took place in Apr...