Wartime Experience – Cultural News

Schedule Updated | Japanese Americans’ 10 Stories That Refuse Erasure: “Films of Remembrance” Event in Little Tokyo Saturday, March 28, 11AM-8:30PM

March 27, 2026

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Japanese Americans’ 10 Stories That Refuse Erasure: “Films of Remembrance” Event in Gardena Sunday, March 29, 11:30AM – 7:15PM

March 27, 2026

Day of Remembrance Film Nichi Bei Foundation Nikkei Legacy - No Am San Francisco - Japanese Topics Wartime Experience

2026 February | In-Person Screening of “Films of Remembrance” in Northern California Feb. 21-22

February 22, 2026

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2026 Feb. 19 | Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Presents Short Films Honoring “Day of Remembrance: Executive Order 9066’

February 19, 2026

Day of Remembrance Nikkei Legacies - LA Wartime Experience

2026 Feb. 19 | Stories of Japanese American WWII Solders “Defining Courage” with New Stories and New Music Returns to Aratani Theater

February 19, 2026

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2025/12/14 | Pasadena Japanese Garden to Host Wartime Exhibition about Tuna Canyon Detention Center in Los Angeles Dec 14 from 10AM-4PM

December 14, 2025

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2025/03/08 Descanso Gardens hosts Tuna Canyon Exhibit

March 8, 2025

Japanese Topics - World Nikkei Legacies - LA Tuna Canyon Detention Station

2025/03/07/ Descanso Gardens Reveals Hidden History of Wartime Detention / Tuna Canyon exhibit highlights injustice, resilience and lessons from the 1940s (Pasadena Now)

March 7, 2025

Nikkei Legacies - LA Tuna Canyon Detention Station

2023/9/23 : Fundraiser for shedding light on injustice in World War II: Tuna Canyon Detention Station Coalition Biennial Luncheon, Sep. 23 at 12:30PM

September 23, 2023

Nikkei Legacies - LA Tuna Canyon Detention Station

2023/8/31 Due : Japanese American Wartime Experience: Tune Canyon Detention Station Coalition accepting scholarship application of essay or video clip, due by August 31

August 31, 2023

Nikkei Legacies - LA Tuna Canyon Detention Station

2022 / Tuna Canyon Marketplace “Shop for a cause” 2022 Spring & Summer Boutique on-line sale from April 22 – May 6

May 6, 2022

Nikkei Legacies - LA Tuna Canyon Detention Station

2021 / Tune Canyon Marketplace: New Shopping Dates, April 22 to June 22

June 22, 2021

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2019: Educational center on WWII Japanese American veterans presenting “Defining Courage” exhibition

August 1, 2019

Nikkei Nikkei Legacies - LA Santa Barbara Historical Museum Tuna Canyon Detention Station Wartime Experience

2018 / Santa Barbara Historical Museum: “Only The Oaks Remain: The Story of Tuna Canyon Detention Station” Feb 01 – May 27

May 27, 2018

Japanese American National Museum - JANM Wartime Experience

2018 / Japanese American National Museum to hold 2018 Gala Dinner, April 21

April 21, 2018

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2018 / “Tuna Canyon Detention Station” street sign installed as Los Angeles Cultural Heritage marker in Tujuanga Canyon, April 12

April 12, 2018

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2018 / “Tuna Canyon Detention Station” street signs to be installed, April 12

April 12, 2018

Japanese American Cultural & Community Center - JACCC Manzanar National Historic Site Wartime Experience

2018 / Japanese American Cultural and Community Center / TOYO: BEHIND THE GLASS EYE, part II, February 21 – April 1

April 1, 2018

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LACMA displaying an oil painting of World War II Internment barracks at American Art galley

March 5, 2018

George Takei's Allegiance Broadway Musical Wartime Experience

2018 / Aratani Theatre: Musical ALLEGIANCE, Feb. 21 – April 1

February 21, 2018

Day of Remembrance Japanese American National Museum - JANM Wartime Experience

2018 / Japanese American National Museum to present 2018 Day of Remembrance, Feb. 17

February 17, 2018

Japanese American National Museum - JANM Tule Lake Wartime Experience

2018 / Japanese American National Museum Screening: Resistance at Tule Lake, Feb. 10

February 10, 2018

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2017 / FDR Presidential Library in New York exhibiting WW II Japanese American concentration camp photos, Feb 19 – Dec. 31

December 31, 2017

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2017 / Legacy project for Japanese American wartime detention site at Tuna Canyon: Fundraiser set for Oct.8

October 8, 2017

Community Film-TV Gardena Valley Japanese Cultural Institute - GVJCI Nikkei Wartime Experience

2017 / Gardena: Screening “Right of Passage” at JCI, Sept. 23

September 23, 2017

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2017 / Gardena Valley Japanese Cultural Institute to host “Vision of the Japanese American Incarceration 1942-2017” exhibition, April 15

April 15, 2017

Japanese American National Museum - JANM Tuna Canyon Detention Station

2017 / Japanese American National Museum / Tuna Canyon Detention Station exhibition, Dec. 10, 2016 – Apr. 9, 2017

April 9, 2017

Day of Remembrance Gardena Valley Japanese Cultural Institute - GVJCI Little Tokyo Community Nikkei Legacies - LA Tule Lake Wartime Experience

2017 / Gardena institute to present 2017 Day of Remembrance to learn WWII incarceration of Japanese American, Feb. 25

February 25, 2017

George Takei's Allegiance Broadway Musical

2017 / “George Takei’s Allegiance: The Broadway Musical on the Big Screen” at theaters nationally, Feb. 19

February 19, 2017

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2017 / Japanese American National Museum: wartime farm labor camp photo exhibition, Sep. 27, 2016 – Jan. 8, 2017

January 8, 2017