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The is a museum dedicated to preserving the history and culture of Japanese Americans. It is located in the Little Tokyo area near downtown Los Angeles, California. The museum is an affiliate within the Smithsonian Affiliations program. The museum contains over 130 years of Japanese American history, dating back to the first Issei generation. It houses a moving image archive, which contains over of 16 mm and 8 mm home movies of Japanese Americans from the 1920s to the 1950s. It also contains artifacts, textiles, art, photographs, and oral histories of Japanese Americans. ==History== The idea for the museum was originally thought up by Bruce Kaji with help from other notable Japanese American people at the time. When it first opened in 1992, the museum was housed in the 1925 historic Hompa Hongwanji Buddhist Temple building and Irene Hirano served as its first executive director. Then in January 1999, the National Museum opened its current Pavilion to the public.〔Patt Morrison, Cecilia Rasmussen, Angels Walk – Union Station, El Pueblo, Little Tokyo, Civic Center, Angels Walk LA, Inc., 2000〕 The temple building, used in 1942 to process Japanese Americans for wartime confinement, is now used for offices and storage. In 1993 the museum was given hundreds of artifacts and letters from children in internment camps which they had sent to San Diego librarian Clara Breed. The material was featured in an exhibit, "Dear Miss Breed: Letters from camp" and became part of the museum's permanent collection.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dear Miss Breed: Letters from camp )〕 In 1997, the Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center was established by Robert A. Nakamura and Karen L. Ishizuka, to develop new ways to document, preserve and make known the experience of Americans of Japanese Ancestry. In 1999, the Manabi and Sumi Hirasaki National Resource Center (HNRC) was established to provide access to the museum's information and resources, both at the facility and online, and documents both the life and culture of the Japanese Americans. Akemi Kikumura Yano, author〔http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n81100153/〕 and the museum's first curator, succeeded Irene Hirano as President and CEO from 2008 until 2011. During her tenure, on December 2010, the museum was awarded the National Medal for Museum and Library Service.〔http://www.janm.org/press/release/288/〕 In 2012, Episcopal Rev. Greg Kimura was appointed the CEO of the museum.〔http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/ens/2012/01/26/alaska-priest-appointed-as-ceo-of-japanese-american-museum/〕 Actor George Takei serves as a member of its board of trustees and represented it as his charity during his time on ''The Celebrity Apprentice'' and during his appearance on The Newlywed Game. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Japanese American National Museum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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