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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...

Los Angeles Premiere of Third Act at the 41st LA Asian Pacific Film Festival

2025年05月03日

JANM is proud to present the Los Angeles premiere of Third Act at the LA Asian Pacific Film Festival on May 3. 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...

JANM Mourns the Passing of Senator Alan K. Simpson

2025年03月17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) mourns the passing of Senator Alan K. Simpson, who helped steer the passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 through Congress and into law alongside his colleague and lifelong friend, the late Secretary Nor...

2025 DOR Los Angeles Save the Date Press Release

2025年01月07日

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Day of Remembrance (DOR) Committee announced that the annual DOR will be held on Saturday, February 15, 2025, at 2:00pm. This year we will move from our usual host location at the Japanese American National Museum to LA Hompa Hongwanji Buddhist Temple or “Nishi Betsuin” (815 1st St). DOR commemorates the signing of Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, by President Franklin D. Roose...

JANM’s Democracy Center Launches Inaugural Irene Hirano Inouye Distinguished Lecture January 31

2024年12月25日

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will present the inaugural Irene Hirano Inouye Distinguished Lecture with guest speaker Lonnie G. Bunch III, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, on Friday, January 31, 2025, at JANM’s Daniel K. Inouye National Center for the Preservation of Democracy (Democracy Center). Secretary Bunch will speak in conversation with Lisa Sasaki, Deputy Under Secret...

2024 Oshogatsu Family Festival—Year of the Dragon

2024年01月07日

Celebrate with us at the 2025 Oshogatsu Family Festival—Year of the Snake on January 5, 2025.TICKETS FREE ALL DAYJoin us at the Japanese American National Museum as we welcome the Year of the Dragon with cultural performances, crafts, and activities for families and kids of all ages! Traditional mochitsuki (Japanese rice pounding ritual) performance by Kodama TaikoCandy sculpture demonstrations by Shinobu “Shan the ...

Climates of Inequality Symposium

2023年09月30日

Join us for a lively conversation with environmental justice leaders from Southern California as they discuss how their communities mobilize storytelling for change and to save lives. The daylong symposium includes the following speakers, as well as a screening and discussion of the documentary, Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust (2021). Spanish/English interpreters will be available throughout the day. S...

Climates of Inequality Pop-Up Exhibition

2023年09月23日 - 2023年09月30日

Visit Climates of Inequality, a week-long pop-up exhibition featuring stories of environmental justice from the US, Mexico, and Colombia. Interactive displays bring you to the frontlines of community organizing in twenty-two localities, where the majority of residents are immigrants, low-income, Native American, and people of color. Though they have contributed the least to the climate crisis, these communities bear ...

“REFLECTIONS/REFRACTIONS” LITERARY SHOW SET FOR JANM

2019年08月29日

Los Angeles, CA—In a special program organized by Visual Communications—the nation’s premier Asian Pacific American media arts organization—and the Japanese American National Museum, ten locally based literary artists will perform original works inspired by media arts works featured in the ongoing VC Founders’ photographic exhibition, At First Light: The Dawning of Asian Pacific America on Thursday, September 19, in ...

Desire For Magic

Artist Patrick Nagatani When asked how he would describe himself, Sansei artist Patrick Nagatani immediately responds that he considers himself to be, first and foremost, a storyteller. Unlike the traditional photographer who is considered an objective recorder of reality, Nagatani carefully sets the stage for his photographs, collages, and multimedia pieces much like a movie director arranges a set and actor...