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George Takei Launches His New Book at JANM on June 14, 2025

2025年06月06日

Images are available at janm.org/press/galleryWHAT:Celebrate the release of It Rhymes with Takei, the new graphic memoir from George Takei! George has shown the world many faces but until October 27, 2005, there was always one piece missing—one face he did not show the world. Now he shares the full story of his life in the closet, his decision to come out as gay at sixty-eight, and how that moment transformed everyth...

Statement by the JANM Board of Trustees on the Defense of History, Democracy, and Civil Rights

2025年02月11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) was founded by the Japanese American community as a beacon for civil rights and democracy, ensuring that the injustices faced by Japanese Americans during World War II are never repeated against any other gro...

Windows of Little Bronze Tokyo Exhibition Closing

2024年11月17日

Celebrate with Sustainable Little Tokyo during the culminating event of its Windows of Little Bronze Tokyo project. See visual artwork by Carey Westbrook and Miki Yokoyama, listen to community interviews by documentarian and storyteller Bobby Buck, and enjoy a performance by Wayne Hoggatt in collaboration with jazz musicians and Japanese taiko and West African drummers.Inspired by the Little Tokyo’s Bronzeville era, ...

Excavating: The Process of Storytelling

2024年10月06日

Join us for a film screening of the documentary, One Fighting Irishman, followed by a panel discussion focusing on the ways in which activists are delving into camp history for their many untold and, at times, misrepresented stories. Filmmaker Sharon Yamato will moderate a panel consisting of the following activists: Tule Lake Pilgrimage Committee chairman Hiroshi Shimizu, Tule Lake Stockade Diary publisher Kyoko Oda...

2024 Benefit & Online Auction

Embark on a journey with us on Saturday, April 6 at the Vibiana in Los Angeles for Illuminating Paths, JANM’s annual signature event that will weave poignant lessons of our past with vibrant promises of our future.

Democracy Center Announces the Second Annual Irene Yamamoto Arts Writers Fellowship for Emerging Arts Writers of Color

2024年01月19日

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Daniel K. Inouye National Center for the Preservation of Democracy (Democracy Center) at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) announces the second annual Irene Yamamoto Arts Writers Fellowship (Yamamoto Fellowship) with a focus on theater, dance, and performance art. The fellowship encourages emerging arts writers of color to write about works from their own cultural and political perspe...

JANM Relaunches the Daniel K. Inouye National Center for the Preservation of Democracy

2023年12月01日

LOS ANGELES, CA – Today the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) relaunched the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy as the Daniel K. Inouye National Center for the Preservation of Democracy (Democracy Center). A program of JANM, the revitalized Democracy Center builds on the original vision of Senator Daniel K. Inouye. A place for education and participation, the Democracy Center examines issues ...

Discover Nikkei Celebrates 12th Edition of Nikkei Chronicles with Call for Coming of Age Stories

2023年07月05日

LOS ANGELES, CA – Discover Nikkei, a web-based project of the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) that promotes connections and understanding among the global Japanese diaspora, announces the 12th edition of its Nikkei Chronicles special series, an annual, themed open call for writings. This year’s theme, Growing Up Nikkei: Connecting with Our Heritage, calls for stories, essays, and vignettes about the ways ...

2022 Oshogatsu Family Festival—Year of the Tiger

2022年01月02日

EVENT UPDATE As of December 27, 2021 With the rapidly increasing COVID-19 infection rates in Los Angeles County due to the Omicron variant, the Japanese American National Museum will temporarily close to the public effective immediately. The safety of our community is of paramount importance to us, as is our obligation as a public institution to do our part to support efforts to inhibit the spread of the COVI...

Toyo Miyatake Studios Donates Photos Taken For Rafu Shimpo To Japanese American National Museum

1996年08月01日

The Japanese American National Museum announced that Toyo Miyatake Studios, one of the nation’s oldest family-run Japanese American photography studios, has recently donated a collection of photographs that it took for The Rafu Shimpo, the largest Japanese-English publication in the continental United States, to the Museum for identification and preservation. Toyo Miyatake Studios was often called upon by the ...