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  • Author Discussion—When Can We Go Back to America? with Susan Kamei

    Sep 25, 2021

    $10 General Admission / FREE for JANM & JACL Members In this virtual program, Susan H. Kamei will discuss her new book, When Can We Go Back to America?: Voices of Japanese American Incarceration during WWII, and the lessons that she hopes readers of all ages will take from it. She will be joined in conversation by William A. Darity Jr., Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at Duke Univer...

  • Members Only Meet-and-Greet with Susan H. Kamei

    Sep 25, 2021

    FREE for JANM & JACL Members All members are invited to this exclusive virtual conversation with the author and scholar behind When Can We Go Back to America?: Voices of Japanese American Incarceration during WWII, Susan H. Kamei. The daughter and granddaughter of incarcerees, Susan H. Kamei volunteered in the redress campaign and served as National Deputy Legal Counsel for the JACL Legislative Education Commit...

  • Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival—C3: Manzanar, Convergent

    Sep 24, 2021

    FREE In this polarized moment, how can the acknowledgement of shared histories really bring about steps towards positive change? The answers continue to unfold after the highly anticipated screening of documentary film Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust. Join community leader and activist, traci kato-kiriyama, in a panel conversation with Danelle Bacoch-Gutierrez (Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, ...

  • Collecting and Preserving a Community’s History

    Sep 23, 2021

    FREE Do you have objects at home that you think belong in a community archive? Have you ever wondered about how items end up inside museums or displayed at historic sites? Learn how these institutions collect and maintain their historic collections, the challenges this type of work entails, and how people can help prepare their collections if they are interested in having them considered for intake. Hear...

  • Screening and Q&A—100 Years from Mississippi

    Sep 11, 2021 - Sep 12, 2021

    $16 General Admission / FREE for Members Please note there are two screening dates: SOLD OUT Saturday, September 11 | 2 - 3:30pm (PDT) SOLD OUT Sunday, September 12 | 2 - 3:30pm (PDT) 100 Years From Mississippi is a true story of resilience, forgiveness, memory, and hope. Join the film’s writer and director Tarabu Betserai Kirkland and associate producer Barry Shabaka Henley for a Q&A following a scree...

  • Upper Level Members and VIP Reception: “A Life in Pieces”

    Sep 10, 2021

    Members at the Sustaining level and above are invited to a special reception and brief program celebrating the exhibition A Life in Pieces: The Diary and Letters of Stanley Hayami with Judy Hayami and members of the Hayami family. By invitation only. Invitations were mailed in mid-August. Masks are required for all visitors, regardless of vaccination status, except for children age two and younger.

  • STATEMENT: Honoring the Memory of September 11 and Renewing a Commitment to Tolerance

    Sep 10, 2021

    LOS ANGELES – On this 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the nation will share a collective day to grieve, remember, and continue to heal from this momentous chapter in history. As the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) joins in this solemn national day of remembrance, it also encourages the country to remain committed to democratic ideals of tolerance and diversity. Americans are of many colors a...

  • 声明: 9月11日の事件を追悼し、寛容さへのコミットメントを新たにします

    Sep 10, 2021

    2001年9月11日の事件から20周年を迎えるにあたり、この国はこの歴史上の重大な出来事を嘆き、記憶し、その傷を癒し続ける日を共に迎えます。全米日系人博物館（JANM）は、この厳粛な追悼の日に祈りを捧げると同時に、民主主義の理想である寛容さと多様性を保ち続けることをこの国に呼びかけます。 アメリカ人とはさまざまな肌の色、信仰を持つ人々であり、2001年9月11日の事件の犠牲者も同様に多様でした。しかしワールドトレードセンター、ペンタゴン、そしてユナイテッド航空93便のペンシルベニア州での墜落事件の後、多くの報復攻撃は不当にも有色人種のコミュニティーに向けられました。ヘイトクライムの連鎖の中で、9月11日後に最初の死者となったのは、2001年9月15日にアリゾナ州メサで殺害されたシーク教徒のバルビール・シン・ソディ氏でした。 「当館は、9月11日の事件の後、イスラムフォビア（イスラム恐怖症）やムスリムに対する偏見から起...

  • Nima Voices: Episode 6—Christine Piper

    Sep 07, 2021

    Discover Nikkei is JANM’s community-based web project sharing stories and the experiences of Nikkei around the world. “Nima” are members of the Discover Nikkei online community. Hailing from all around the world, they each bring unique experiences and perspectives to the site’s rich archive of stories. Nima Voices is an interview series where we uplift our Nima through brief, but enlightening, interviews...

  • TRANSPACIFIC MUSICLANDS OUTDOOR CONCERT SET FOR JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM

    Sep 22, 2017

    Los Angeles, CA—In conjunction with its new Transpacific Borderlands: The Art of Japanese Diaspora in Lima, Los Angeles, Mexico City, and São Paulo exhibition, the Japanese American National Museum will present Transpacific Musiclands, an outdoor concert celebrating cultural exchange between East Los Angeles and Japan on Saturday, October 14, from 5 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Tickets for Transpacific Musiclands are on sale no...