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  • Japanese Cooking for Beginners with Azusa Oda: Gyoza

    Nov 06, 2021

    $25 General Admission / $20 Members Making gyoza (Japanese dumplings) can be a fun group activity or a solo meditative practice. In this interactive virtual workshop, learn the basics with cookbook author and designer, Azusa Oda, and make this perennial favorite a part of your cooking repertoire. You will be sent the ingredient list and necessary setup in advance so you can cook along from your own kitchen. Azu...

  • STATEMENT: THE JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM MOURNS THE PASSING OF HOLLY YASUI – WRITER, EDITOR AND FILMMAKER

    Nov 05, 2021

    LOS ANGELES - The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) mourns the death of Holly Yasui, 67, a writer, editor, and documentary filmmaker. She died Oct. 31 in Mexico from complications of COVID-19 and was the youngest daughter of Minoru Yasui, the legendary Japanese American lawyer and civil rights activist. “The Museum is deeply saddened to learn about the passing of Holly Yasui whose film about her father kee...

  • Kokoro2021—Virtual Craft Show

    Nov 01, 2021 - Nov 15, 2021

    The 13th Annual Kokoro Craft Show is virtual again this year! Although the pandemic has prevented the in-person Kokoro Craft Show from occurring two years in a row, there will be more than 60 vendors this year, most of whom are new. Shoppers can begin viewing vendor’s products on November 1 for two weeks at the new website, www.kokorocraftshow.com. During this special shopping period, buy products from the vendor...

  • JACSC 2021 Education Conference

    Oct 29, 2021 - Oct 30, 2021

    Please join the Japanese American Confinement Sites Consortium (JACSC) for the second virtual education conference to be held October 29th-30th, 2021! Save the dates for a special event in person at JANM and virtually anywhere the evening of Friday, October 29th and virtual educational sessions throughout the day on Saturday, October 30th. Founded on the idea that we are stronger together than on our own, JACSC ai...

  • Through Stanley’s Eyes: Telling Stories of Heart Mountain

    Oct 29, 2021

    RSVP TO ATTEND IN PERSON CLICK TO WATCH THE LIVESTREAM How do we tell personal narratives in ways that highlight our community’s broader history and impact? Join for a conversation on innovative ways to share the voices of Heart Mountain, as well as other WWII incarceration sites, in to order to inspire, advocate, and educate. Dakota Russell (Executive Director, Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation), Clem...

  • STATEMENT: THE JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM IS HONORED TO RECEIVE AWARD FROM AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS-LA FOR PAVILION DESIGNED BY GYO OBATA OF HOK

    Oct 29, 2021

    LOS ANGELES - The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) is honored to receive the Twenty-Five Year Award from the American Institute of Architects Los Angeles (AIALA) for the Pavilion designed by famed architect Gyo Obata of HOK, a global design and architecture firm. AIALA described its Twenty-Five Year Award as recognition bestowed upon an architectural design of “enduring significance” for a project “that ha...

  • THE 13th ANNUAL KOKORO CRAFT SHOW IS NOV. 1-15 ONLINE BOUTIQUE ORGANIZED BY VOLUNTEERS FOR JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM

    Oct 25, 2021

    LOS ANGELES - The annual Kokoro Craft Show is back for 2021 as an online boutique for the second year. The event will feature more than 60 vendors selling a wide range of items. “Year after year, our dedicated Kokoro volunteers work long hours to organize this craft show to assist JANM. Their enthusiasm and can-do spirit – even through the pandemic – is a wonderful demonstration of their support and commitment,” s...

  • Educators Workshop—Teaching Hayami & Okubo

    Oct 23, 2021

    Join JANM Education department in celebrating two important Japanese American artists featured in the museum’s newest exhibits A Life in Pieces: the Diary and Letters of Stanley Hayami and Miné Okubo’s Masterpiece: The Art of Citizen 13360. Both artists recorded groundbreaking chronicles of their lives in camp, shining light on the first person experiences of Japanese American incarcerees. Teachers and educators a...

  • JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM MOURNS THE PASSING OF MARGARET ODA

    May 03, 2018

    Los Angeles—The Japanese American National Museum mourns the passing of its Chairman Emeritus Margaret Y. Oda. Dr. Oda served on the JANM Board of Trustees from 1993 to 2005. She was Vice Chair from 1996 to 2003, and Chair from 2004 to 2005. She was named a Chairman Emeritus in 2006. “Margaret Oda’s passing is a sorrowful occasion and the Japanese American National Museum’s leadership, staff, and volunteers send t...

  • JANM’S MAY FREE FAMILY DAY EXPLORES IDENTITY AND HERITAGE

    Apr 24, 2018

    Los Angeles, CA—The Japanese American National Museum will be a fun and thoughtful place to explore themes of identity and personal heritage during its JANM Free Family Day on May 12, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission to the museum, its exhibitions, and its “Identity, My-dentity’ Family Day activities—including crafts, storytelling, a poetry workshop, and an improv performance—will be free. All ages are welcome. “I...