Uploaded January 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Create a cute ox to celebrate the New Year using only supplies found around your house! Presented by JANM's Education Unit as part of the 2021 Oshogatsu Virtual Family Festival.
Oshogatsu Virtual Family Festival
January 3–8, 2021
Join JANM for a week of virtual, kid-friendly activities to celebrate the New Year! From interactive, offline festivities for all ages to multi-lingual story times and play performances, welcome the Year of the Ox with JANM.
janm.org/oshogatsufest2021
#JANMOshogatsu #YearoftheOx
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Programs like this are made possible by the generous support of JANM's members and donors. Become a member (janm.org/membership) or consider making a tax-deductible gift so that we can continue to present more programs like these: janm.org/donatenow. Your support makes a difference. Thank you!
Japanese American National Museum
100 N. Central Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
janm.org
Create a cute ox to celebrate the New Year using only supplies found around your house! Presented by JANM's Education Unit as part of the 2021 Oshogatsu Virtual Family Festival.
Oshogatsu Virtual Family Festival
January 3–8, 2021
Join JANM for a week of virtual, kid-friendly activities to celebrate the New Year! From interactive, offline festivities for all ages to multi-lingual story times and play performances, welcome the Year of the Ox with JANM.
janm.org/oshogatsufest2021
#JANMOshogatsu #YearoftheOx
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Programs like this are made possible by the generous support of JANM's members and donors. Become a member (janm.org/membership) or consider making a tax-deductible gift so that we can continue to present more programs like these: janm.org/donatenow. Your support makes a difference. Thank you!
Japanese American National Museum
100 N. Central Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
janm.org








![Writing Heroes with Naomi Hirahara & Sarah Kuhn
On March 26, 2022, award-winning Japanese American authors Naomi Hirahara (An Eternal Lei) and Sarah Kuhn (From Little Tokyo, With Love) discussed their recently released books that explore the power of young women and the significance of place. The event also included readings from the books audiobook narrators Chloe Madriaga and Emily Woo Zeller.
About An Eternal Lei by Naomi Hirahara:
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It’s the middle of the pandemic and Hawaii has been virtually closed to tourists. So when Leilani Santiago and her young sisters save a mysterious woman wearing an unusual lei from drowning in Waimea Bay in Kaua’i, questions abound. Who is she and where did she come from? Leilani suddenly finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation when the lei is traced back to her best friend, the very pregnant Courtney Kahuakai, and her family’s flower business.
While the woman is in a medically-induced coma at a local hospital, Leilani sets out to discover her identity and her connections to the island. She is drawn deeper into the mystery, only to stumble into secrets that prove deadly. When Leilani’s investigation puts her family in danger, her survival and the safety of those dearest to her will depend on her sense of ingenuity and the strength of her island community.
About From Little Tokyo, With Love by Sarah Kuhn:
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If Rika’s life seems like the beginning of a familiar fairy tale—being an orphan with two bossy cousins and working away in her aunts’ business—she would be the first to reject that foolish notion. After all, she loves her family (even if her cousins were named after Disney characters), and with her biracial background, amazing judo skills and red-hot temper, she doesn’t quite fit the princess mold.
All that changes the instant she locks eyes with Grace Kimura, America’s reigning rom-com sweetheart, during the Nikkei Week Festival. From there, Rika embarks on a madcap adventure of hope and happiness—searching for clues that Grace is her long-lost mother, exploring Little Tokyo’s hidden treasures with cute actor Hank Chen, and maybe . . . finally finding a sense of belonging.
But fairy tales are fiction and the real world isn’t so kind. Rika knows she’s setting herself up for disappointment, because happy endings don’t happen to girls like her. Should she walk away before she gets in even deeper, or let herself be swept away?
Programs like this are made possible by the generous support of JANM’s members and donors. Become a member (https://janm.org/membership) or consider making a tax-deductible gift so that we can continue to present more programs and exhibitions like these: https://janm.org/donatenow. Your support makes a difference. Thank you!
Japanese American National Museum
100 N. Central Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
https://janm.org
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