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“Third Act” at the Laemmle Monica Film Center
2025年09月26日 - 2025年10月02日
JANM is proud to present Third Act at the Laemmle Monica Film Center from Friday, September 26 – Thursday, October 2. Bring your friends and family for this sneak peek theatrical run of this film that was an official selection of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Variety calls it “a realistic portrait of America” and “a story of perseverance and how some people make their life’s work stand for more than just a persona...
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“Cruising J-Town”—JANM Members Curator Tour
2025年09月25日
Meet us in Pasadena for a Members Only tour of JANM’s exhibition, Cruising J-Town: Behind the Wheel of the Nikkei Community, with exhibition curator Dr. Oliver Wang.Cruising J-Town tells the stories of influential figures and everyday car lovers alike. See the five classic cars anchoring the exhibition: George Nakamura’s 1940s “Meteor” hot rod; Brian Omatsu’s custom 1951 Mercury coupe known as the “Purple Reign”; a 1...
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Nikkei Children’s Book Festival
2025年09月20日
Dokushyo no Aki means “fall is for reading,” expressing the sentiment that the cozy and short days of autumn are the best time to pick up a book. Jump into the reading season with our Nikkei Children’s Book Festival and celebrate the breadth and diversity of children’s literature across the Japanese American community. The festival will be full of author storytimes for kids, Q&As for adults, activities for all ages, ...
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Contested Histories at MIS Historic Learning Center (San Francisco, CA)
2025年09月19日 - 2026年01月10日
TRAVELING DISPLAYPresented by National Japanese Historical Society (NJAHS) at:Military Intelligence Service Historic Learning Center Building 640Presidio of San FranciscoFor more information, visit njahs.org/building-640. During World War II, Japanese Americans incarcerated in America's concentration camps demonstrated their resilience, ingenuity, and creativity, from crafting necessities like furniture and tools to ...
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Silencing History: Protecting Truth in Public Spaces and Museums
2025年09月15日
Across the country, National Park Service sites are becoming ground zero in a growing battle over historical memory. Signs with QR codes invite the public to report “negative” or “unpatriotic” portrayals of American history. On the surface, these codes claim to ensure “accuracy.” But for communities like Japanese Americans, who have fought for decades to have the truth of their incarceration recognized, this developm...
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Cruising J-Town Mini-Meet: Street Racers Reunion
2025年09月13日
Grab a cup of coffee and join the street racing and import tuner scene reunion that’s part of JANM’s exhibition, Cruising J-Town: Behind the Wheel of the Nikkei Community. This event will showcase a selection of a dozen cars that reflect the merging of two scenes that many Japanese Americans and Asian Americans participated in from the 1970s through the 2000s.Please note that cars must be invited to join the main ev...
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JANM Questions US Supreme Court’s Decision to Lift Restrictions on Race-Based Immigration Stops in the Los Angeles Area
2025年09月09日
Editors please note: JANM’s Pavilion is closed for renovation; programs will continue on the JANM campus and at other locations at janm.org/OnTheGo. LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) is deeply troubled by the US Supreme Court’s decision to lift restrictions on immigration stops in the greater Los Angeles area. The Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision lifted a restraining order from US District Ju...
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Saturday, September 13 Cruising J-Town Mini-Meet Showcases Cars, Coffee, and Street Racers Reunion
2025年09月08日
PSAWHAT:Grab a cup of coffee and join the street racing and import tuner scene reunion that’s part of JANM’s exhibition, Cruising J-Town: Behind the Wheel of the Nikkei Community.WHEN:Saturday, September 13, 2025, from 10 a.m.–12 p.m. PDTDETAILS:This special event will showcase a selection of a dozen cars that reflect the merging of two scenes that many Japanese Americans and Asian Americans participated in from the ...
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“Third Act” at the Chicago History Museum
2025年09月07日
JANM is proud to present Third Act at the Chicago History Museum on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2025. Generations of artists call Robert A. Nakamura “the godfather of Asian American media,” but his son and the director of JANM’s Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center, Tadashi Nakamura, calls him Dad. As Parkinson’s disease clouds Robert’s memory, Tad sets out to retrieve his story—and in the process discovers his own.Using the lesso...
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Ireicho National Tour—Fort Lincoln, North Dakota
2025年09月05日 - 2025年09月06日
JANM is partnering with The Irei Project and USC’s Duncan Ryuken Williams to travel The Ireichō: Book of Names in conjunction with pilgrimages to all ten former War Relocation Authority concentration camps, to other Department of Justice and Wartime Civil Control Administration incarceration sites, and selected cities across the US. The tour is part of JANM on the Go, a series of programs and exhibitions presented ac...