Events

NJAHS holds one-day special events throughout the year. These include ceremonies, film screenings, author book signings, panel discussion, Day of Remembrance, Pilgrimages, Veterans, and Peace commemorations.

Upcoming Events

Recent Events

• Bay Area Day of Remembrance 2024 | Carrying the Light for Justice: Finding Our Way Home

  February 17 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

• MISHLC 10th Anniversary: A Visual Review

  November 27, 2023 at 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

• Renshi Love Letter Kickoff

  November 14, 2023 at 4:00 pm - December 31, 2023 at 2:32 pm

• MIS Historic Learning Center – 10th Year Anniversary – Nov. 12, 2023

  November 12, 2023 at 11:00 am - 4:00 pm

• MIS Historic Learning Center – 10th Year Anniversary – Nov. 12, 2023

  November 12, 2023 at 11:00 am - 4:00 pm

• NJAHS Debuts New Exhibit “The Go For Broke Spirit” by Shane Sato, at the Military Intelligence Service Historic Learning Center

  November 11, 2023 at 12:00 pm - March 31, 2024 at 5:00 pm

• 2024 Winter Raffle

  November 3, 2023 at 8:00 am - January 31, 2024 at 5:00 pm

• Benign Neglect: Conversation and Book Signing w/ Takeshi Moro, Dennis Makishima, and Kenny Murakami

  September 24, 2023 at 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

• Benign Neglect: Historic Japanese American Bonsai Photo Exhibit at the MISHLC

  September 16, 2023 at 12:00 pm - October 22, 2023 at 5:00 pm

• Annual Members Meeting & Program -Sat. Jul 15 @11AM

  July 15, 2023 at 11:00 am - 1:30 pm

• Queer Reflections

  July 11, 2023 - August 5, 2023

• Tunnel Tops Concert 5/27/2023

  May 27, 2023 at 1:00 am - 10:00 am

• Amache National Historic Site Foundation Document

  April 21, 2023 at 1:00 am - July 23, 2023 at 1:30 pm

• Music Makers: Bands Behind Barbed Wire – Memorial Day Weekend Concert -FREE

  April 14, 2023 at 5:00 pm - May 27, 2023 at 10:00 am

• Threads of Remembrance: Asian American Quilts of Memory at Peace Gallery

  April 7, 2023 - May 19, 2023

• LIFE’S ANGLES: CAMP ART BOXES – Lessons on the Japanese American Camp Art and Crafts of WWII

  March 25, 2023 at 1:00 am - June 1, 2023 at 10:00 am

• Welcome to the Bay Area Day of Remembrance 2023

  March 2, 2023 at 12:00 am - 9:00 am

• 2023 Winter Raffle Winners

  February 2, 2023 at 12:00 am - 9:00 am

• 2023 Winter Raffle – Raffle Pull Tonight – Jan. 30, 5PM

  January 30, 2023 at 9:00 am - January 31, 2023 at 9:00 am

• 2023 Bay Area Day of Remembrance

  January 17, 2023 at 12:00 am - 9:30 am

• MIS Historic Learning Center is closed on New Year Eve and New Year

  December 27, 2022 at 12:00 am - January 1, 2023 at 3:30 pm

• We want your input on the San Francisco Japantown History Mural Project!

  December 14, 2022 at 12:00 am - January 31, 2023 at 9:00 am

• Enemy Alien Files: Hidden Stories of WWII at Angel Island State Park

  December 13, 2022 - January 29, 2023

• Dec. 1- Community Meeting-SFJACL’s History Mural

  December 1, 2022 at 9:00 am - 11:00 am

• Come Together for a Holiday Art & Craft sale and gathering

  November 2, 2022 at 1:00 am - November 26, 2022 at 8:00 am

• The Quenching Poetry Book Launch + Q&A with Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong

  October 19, 2022 at 9:00 am - October 29, 2022 at 11:00 am

• Back to the Culture: A Silkscreen Print Exhibit by Artist Leon Sun

  August 29, 2022 at 5:00 am - December 31, 2022 at 9:00 am

• 48th Annual Nihonmachi Street Fair

  August 6, 2022 at 3:00 am - August 7, 2022 at 12:00 pm

• Manzanar Fishing Club Screening & GYOTAKU FISH PRINT DEMONSTRATION

  August 1, 2022 at 1:00 am - August 7, 2022 at 8:00 am

• A Multicultural/Multimedia Book Presentation Featuring Asian American Women’s Voices

  July 21, 2022 at 7:00 am - September 25, 2022 at 9:00 am

• San Francisco Nisei Fishing Club

  July 18, 2022 at 5:00 am - September 15, 2022 at 10:00 am

• We Are All Americans: Teachers coming together to make hidden histories visible in classrooms

  July 5, 2022 at 1:00 am - July 26, 2022 at 10:00 am

• 2022 Spring Raffle- Winners!

  July 1, 2022 at 5:00 pm - July 6, 2022 at 10:00 am

• 2022 Annual Members Program and Meeting by ZOOM

  June 25, 2022 at 6:00 am - 7:30 am

• Farm Labor While Confined

  June 2, 2022 at 1:00 am - September 30, 2022 at 10:00 am

• We are LGBT Nikkei Extended to July 15th

  May 14, 2022 at 5:00 am - July 15, 2022 at 10:00 am

• “SANSEI LIFE – The Art of Rich Tokeshi” Extended to May 7, 2022

  March 4, 2022 - May 7, 2022

• Bay Area Day of Remembrance 2022

  February 19, 2022 at 9:00 am - 10:30 am

• Two Nails, One Love Virtual Reading & Discussion

  February 3, 2022 at 10:00 am - 11:00 am

• War Relocation Authority Incarceree Farm Labor

  September 24, 2021 at 5:00 am - October 2, 2021 at 10:00 am

• NJAHS 40th Anniversary Celebration

  September 4, 2021 at 10:00 am - 11:30 am

• Search For Koseki : Family Registry in Japan (Annual Members Mtg Program)

  June 26, 2021 at 7:00 am - 8:30 am

• 2021 Spring Raffle Winners

  June 26, 2021 at 1:00 am - June 27, 2021 at 11:00 am

• Free Online Workshop for Elementary Teachers

  June 23, 2021 at 2:00 am - June 26, 2021 at 5:30 am

• Join Us @ AMACHE -Virtually!

  June 11, 2021 at 1:00 am - June 12, 2021 at 10:00 am

• Past NJAHS Events on YouTube

  June 10, 2021 at 1:00 am - June 1, 2022 at 10:00 am

• Virtual Broadcast: Bay Area Go for Broke Forever Stamp Tribute

  June 4, 2021 at 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

• SF Japantown United Against Hate PSA (Public Service Announcement)

  June 2, 2021 at 1:00 am - June 4, 2021 at 10:00 am

• Finding Your Roots: An Introduction to JA Genealogy & NJAHS’ Digital Archives

  May 22, 2021 at 4:00 am - 5:00 am

• Natsukashii: Writings on the Nisei Experience

  May 15, 2021 at 4:00 am - 5:00 am

• Facing the Mountain- Virtual book launch event

  May 11, 2021 at 10:00 am - 11:30 am

• Call to Action: Amache As An National Historic Site

  April 23, 2021 at 7:30 am - 11:00 am

• Remembering Our Grandfathers’ Exile – from Hawaii

  April 17, 2021 at 6:00 am - 7:00 am

• Japanese Voices of Angel Island

  April 10, 2021 at 4:00 am - 5:00 am

• Past NJAHS Events 2021 on YouTube

  April 8, 2021 at 4:00 am - June 4, 2021 at 10:00 am

• Virtual Broadcast: Bay Area Day of Remembrance 2021

  February 19, 2021 at 10:00 am - 11:30 am

• Virtual Broadcast: Mihara’s Braille Board program

  January 23, 2021 at 3:00 am - 4:00 am

• John Tateishi, Author of REDRESS, A Behind-the Scenes Perspective

  December 19, 2020 at 3:00 am - 4:00 am

• Race & Resilence: the Story of Buffalo Soldiers and Nisei Solders in Beyond Pearl Harbor, a virtual Event

  December 6, 2020 at 4:00 am - 6:00 am

• Virtual Broadcast: Ibuki’s Doll Program

  December 5, 2020 at 3:00 am - 4:00 am

• Tokyo Rose Program- Nov 18

  November 18, 2020 at 9:00 am - 10:00 am

• Virtual Broadcast: VETERANS DAY 2020

  November 14, 2020 at 3:00 am - 4:00 am

• Virtual Broadcast’s: Toy Tank at Tule Lake

  November 7, 2020 at 3:00 am - 4:00 am

• Virtual Broadcasts: Takato Hamai’s handmade crutches

  October 17, 2020 at 4:00 am - 5:00 am

• Virtual Broadcasts: ANNUAL AWARDS TRIBUTE 2020 LIVESTREAM SEPT. 5

  September 5, 2020 at 10:00 am - 11:00 am

• Virtual Broadcasts: NJAHS Annual Members Meeting

  June 27, 2020 at 8:30 am - 10:00 am

• Virtual Broadcasts: Kayla Isomura of The Suitcase Project – In the Era of Covid-19

  May 22, 2020 at 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

• Census Day

  March 31, 2020 - April 1, 2020

• Genealogy Series 2

  December 15, 2019 at 6:00 am - 8:00 am

• TRIBUTE TO ASIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN VETERANS 2019

  November 9, 2019 at 2:00 am - 4:00 am

• National Japanese American Historical Society & Nihonmachi Street Fair Presents

  August 3, 2019 at 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

• NJAHS Annual Members Meeting

  June 22, 2019 at 4:00 am - 8:00 am

• SF Premiere Film Screening: Our Lost Years by Lane Nishikawa- May 4

  May 4, 2019 at 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

• May 4, 2019 Annual Awards Tribute Pictures

  May 4, 2019 at 10:00 am - 2:00 pm

• Traveling Exhibit- Then They Came for Me

  December 31, 2018 at 11:00 pm - May 27, 2019 at 2:00 pm

• API Veterans Ceremony 2018

  November 10, 2018 at 2:00 am - 8:00 am

• Peace Plaza Vision Meeting-July 31, 6PM

  July 13, 2018 at 1:00 am - July 31, 2018 at 10:00 am

• Annual Members Meeting & LUNCH PROGRAM

  June 30, 2018 at 4:00 am - 8:00 am

• Acknowledging A Fundamental Injustice: 30th Anniversary of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 – Annual Awards Tribute 2018

  May 5, 2018 at 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

• Artists’ Eyes Film Series

  March 10, 2018 at 6:00 am - 8:00 am

• Bay Area Day of Remembrance: No Barbed Wire! No Walls!

  February 18, 2018 at 6:00 am - 8:00 am

• Ohlone Native American Tasting & Artists Talk:Post-War Reckoning

  February 3, 2018 at 4:00 am - 8:00 am

• In Conjunction with ARTISTS’ EYES EXHIBIT: Film Presentation and Panel: A Bitter Legacy: Secret Citizen Isolation Prisons

  January 13, 2018 at 6:00 am - 8:00 am

• We Are All Americans! Tribute to Nikkei Veterans

  November 11, 2017 at 2:00 am - 9:00 am

• Film Screening of For the Sake of the Children & Panel Discussion

  October 22, 2017 at 7:00 am - 10:00 am

• Never Forgotten- A Nisei Writing Workshop

  October 7, 2017 at 3:00 am - December 2, 2017 at 4:00 am

• Bob Hamaguchi – Celebration of Life

  September 13, 2017 at 1:00 am - November 6, 2017 at 4:00 am

• Something From Nothing: Exhibition and Events

  August 21, 2017 at 9:30 am - November 15, 2017 at 10:00 am

• Preserve & Protect Our Freedoms- NJAHS Annual Awards Event

  May 6, 2017 at 9:00 am - 12:30 pm

• Authors Panel & Booksigning + Bento Lunch

  April 1, 2017 at 4:00 am - 5:00 am

• Gen. Shinseki Visit – Sat, March 18, 2017

  March 18, 2017 at 7:00 am - 9:00 am

• DAY OF REMEMBRANCE Feb 19 2017

  February 19, 2017 at 6:00 am - 8:00 am

• CAMP 101: A Teach-In

  February 18, 2017 at 1:30 am - 4:30 am

• FINDING YOUR ROOTS: PART TWO Sun. Feb. 5

  February 5, 2017 at 5:00 am - 7:00 am

• Peter Yamamoto’s Book Preview: JOURNEYS II

  February 4, 2017 at 6:00 am - 8:00 am

• NJAHS HOLIDAY Party

  December 3, 2016 at 4:00 am - 8:30 am

• Presidio of SF – 75th Anniversary of the Military Intelligence Service

  November 12, 2016 at 2:00 am - 9:00 am

• Lorraine K. Bannai Book Signing

  August 6, 2016 at 4:00 am - 6:00 am

• 43rd Annual Nihonmachi Street Fair

  August 5, 2016 - August 7, 2016

• Travel Information for June 25-26, 2016 – SF Pride Weekend

  June 25, 2016 at 5:30 am - 6:00 am

• RSVP NOW to 2016 OPEN HOUSE & Annual Members Meeting

  June 25, 2016 at 5:00 am - 9:00 am

• USF Honors NJAHS & National Park Service

  April 20, 2016 at 9:00 pm - April 21, 2016 at 11:00 am

• Tickets Available Now for NJAHS Annual Awards Dinner Event

  April 11, 2016 at 8:00 am - May 1, 2016 at 12:30 pm

• Speakers Steve Okamoto and Hiroshi Kashiwagi @ Old US Mint

  March 5, 2016 at 7:00 am - 8:00 am

• History Days @ the Old US Mint

  March 3, 2016 - March 6, 2016

• Bay Area Day of Remembrance 2016

  February 21, 2016 at 6:00 am - 8:00 am

• NPS Intel On Interment Tour

  January 17, 2016 at 5:00 am - 7:00 am

• The Extraordinary Voyage of Kamome Book Signing and Storytelling (English and Japanese)

  January 16, 2016 at 6:00 am - 8:00 am

• NJAHS PEACE GALLERY AND OFFICE CLOSED

  December 31, 2015 - January 1, 2016

• SF Japantown Press Conference Against Anti-Muslim Hate

  December 22, 2015 at 3:30 am - 5:00 am

• Building 640 Ceremony and Luncheon

  November 15, 2015 at 2:00 am - 9:00 am