即日発表 - 2025年08月20日

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JANM

Saturday, August 30 Cruising J-Town Program Highlights Legacies of the Import Car Scene


PSA

WHAT:
Dive into the world of import tuners with a panel discussion about the roots of the import car scene, beginning with its earliest emergence in the 1970s through the explosion of interest in the 1980s through 2000s.

WHEN:
Saturday, August 30, 2025 from 2 p.m.–3:30 p.m. PDT

DETAILS:
Cruising J-Town exhibition curator Oliver Wang will be in conversation with a range of panelists including:

  • Robert Jung, founding member of the Nikkei racing club Westside Racing Association
  • Tim Mochizuki, a member of the early 1980s Gardena racing club, KMA, who went onto work at Toyota Racing Development and Toyota Sales
  • Tod Kaneko, a contemporary of Mochizuki who was heavily involved as an import tuner and has been a longtime engineer at Mazda
  • Ed Loh, head of editorial at the MotorTrend Group with personal roots in the import scene of the 1990s
  • Terry Yamaguchi, cofounder of the Japanese Classic Car Show, now in its twentieth year

WHERE: 
Japanese American National Museum
Democracy Center
100 North Central Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012

RSVP:
RSVP at janm.org/events.

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About the Japanese American National Museum (JANM)

Established in 1985, JANM promotes understanding and appreciation of America’s ethnic and cultural diversity by sharing the Japanese American experience. Located in the historic Little Tokyo district of downtown Los Angeles, JANM is a center for civil rights, ensuring that the hard-fought lessons of the World War II incarceration are not forgotten. A Smithsonian Affiliate and one of America’s Cultural Treasures, JANM is a hybrid institution that straddles traditional museum categories. JANM is a center for the arts as well as history. It provides a voice for Japanese Americans and a forum that enables all people to explore their own heritage and culture. Since opening to the public in 1992, JANM has presented over one hundred exhibitions onsite while traveling forty exhibits to venues such as the Smithsonian Institution and the Ellis Island Museum in the United States, and to several leading cultural museums in Japan and South America. JANM’s Pavilion is closed for renovation; programs will continue on the JANM campus, throughout Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, and Southern California, and beyond from early January 2025 through late 2026. For more information, visit janm.org/OnTheGo or follow us on social media @jamuseum.