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JANM Announces Activities for the Oshogatsu Family Festival on January 11, 2026
2025年12月19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. Image available here LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will bring its popular annual Oshogatsu Family Festival to the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center (JACCC) from 11 a.m.–4:30 p.m. on Sunday, January 11, 2026. The 2026 Oshogatsu...
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JANM Announces New Board Members
2025年06月06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 pleased to welcome new board members to its Board of Governors and Honorary Board. Diana Abouali, Anthea M. Hartig, Hiroshi Kawano, Erika Moritsugu, and Jay Shiba joined the Board of Governors. US Represen...
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The Ireichō National Tour Launches in Washington DC at National Archives and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History February 18–21
2025年02月04日
JANM, The Irei Project, Japanese American Citizens League, JACL-DC Chapter, National Japanese American Memorial Foundation, National Archives Foundation, National Archives and Records Administration, and the National Museum of American History partner together for free programs commemorating the Day of Remembrance LOS ANGELES, CA – The Day of Remembrance (DOR) commemorates the signing of Executive Order 9066 on Febr...
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2024 JACSC Education Conference
2024年10月04日 - 2024年10月06日
Echoes of Resilience: Imagining the Possible in Preserving Japanese American Heritage2024 Japanese American Confinement Sites Consortium Education ConferenceThis annual event brings together scholars, activists, and community members dedicated to preserving and educating about the history of Japanese American incarceration during WWII. Highlights include a panel on the Irei: National Monument, programmed in collabora...
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The Japanese American National Museum Will Launch the New Exhibition, Don’t Fence Me In: Coming of Age in America’s Concentration Camps, on March 4, 2023
2023年01月24日
LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will open its new exhibition, Don’t Fence Me In: Coming of Age in America’s Concentration Camps, on Saturday, March 4, 2023. The exhibition will explore the experiences of Japanese American youth who asserted their place as young Americans confronting the injustice of being imprisoned in World War II concentration camps and embarking on the universal jour...
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America's Concentration Camps Exhibition Set For Ellis Island Immigration Museum In March 1998
1997年07月10日
The award-winning exhibition, America’s Concentration Camps: Remembering the Japanese American Experience, which drew record crowds to the Japanese American National Museum in 1994 and 1995, will be a featured exhibit at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum in New York City beginning on March 30, 1998. The exhibition provides the broad outline of the experience of 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry who were...
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Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo—Press
Press For press inquiries, email mediarelations@janm.org or call 213.625.0414. Press Image Gallery (Password Access Only—contact mediarelations@janm.org for access.)
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Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo—Resources
Explore additional JANM resources about Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo. We will be adding more, so please keep checking back!
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What We Carried - Artist’s Statement
In 2007, I began interviewing returning soldiers from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. I expected to hear chest thumping and Fox News-like talking points like “We are fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here.” I heard none of that from the soldiers. I heard profound remorse and anger about their participation in U.S. interventions in the Middle East. Many of the vets have become radicals and an...