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  • 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...

  • BeHere / 1942: A New Lens on the Japanese American Incarceration—Events

    Programs are free for museum members and included with admission for visitors, unless otherwise noted. To see a complete listing of JANM’s upcoming programs, check out our Events Calendar.

  • BeHere / 1942: A New Lens on the Japanese American Incarceration—Press

    For press inquiries, email mediarelations@janm.org or call 213.625.0414. Press Photo Gallery (Password Access Only—contact mediarelations@janm.org for access.)

  • BeHere / 1942: A New Lens on the Japanese American Incarceration—Artist

    Masaki Fujihata is a world-renowned new media artist. Among the first to explore the potential of computers as an artistic medium and a pioneering figure in “interactive art,” he is the recipient of numerous honors including the Ars Electronica Golden NIKA Award in 1996 for Global Interior Project. His career until 2015 is detailed in the Augmented Reality-enhanced book Anarchive 6: Masaki Fujihata. In fall 2019, he ...

  • 30th Anniversary Benefit - Event Photos

    Thank you to everyone who attended our in-person 30th Anniversary Benefit event at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown on April 30, 2022. We hope you enjoy the photos below taken by the event photographers!

  • BeHere / 1942: A New Lens on the Japanese American Incarceration—BeHere App

    About the BeHere / 1942 Augmented Reality App The BeHere / 1942 exhibition inside JANM is complemented by a groundbreaking augmented reality (AR) installation between the Museum’s Historic Building and Pavilion on the JANM Plaza. Created by the visionary Japanese media artist Masaki Fujihata, the installation is inspired by the March and May 1942 photographs of Los Angeles-based incarcerees being taken to M...

  • History

    Japanese immigration to Hawai‘i began in 1868—more than 140 years ago. From Tokyo and Yokohama, seekers of fortune and adventure responded eagerly to the recruiters sent by the sugar industry in Hawai‘i who promised a wage of four dollars a month, plus food, lodging and medical expenses, with boat passage to the Islands and back after the fulfillment of three-year contracts. In reality, those who came to the Is...

  • Textured Lives - Barbara Kawakami Collection

    The Barbara Kawakami Collection at the Japanese American National Museum is the most significant collection of Issei (first generation Japanese) immigration and plantation clothing in the world. It is an extensive collection of textiles and other artifacts from late 19th century through the 20th century gathered by author and scholar Barbara Kawakami primarily in Hawai‘i. Hawaii-based author, expert storyteller an...