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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...

Benkyodo: The Last Manju Shop in J-Town at the DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon

2024年03月10日

Benkyodo: The Last Manju Shop in J-Town will be screening at the DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon, which will be held in-person March 8–10; virtually March 11–17. This short documentary film is being presented as part of the Shorts Program: Family. Food. Love. ABOUT THE FILM Ricky and Bobby Okamura, the current owners of Benkyodo mochi shop, make a difficult decision to close their family ...

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...

Isamu Noguchi: Sculpture and the Elusive Sense of Belonging

2004年02月28日

Bert Winther-Tamaki will explore the specific sculptural initiatives at various points along Isamu Noguchi’s career—such as his portrait busts of New Yorkers in the 1920s, Japanese clay work in the 1950s, design of plazas for postwar American cities, and the rock abstractions of his late years—and look at them as a laboratory for mediating personal and cultural affiliations that were alternatively inspired and inhibi...

MOVING PICTURES: Toyo Miyatake

2002年11月24日

Little Tokyo's favorite son and legendary photographer Toyo Miyatake is the focus of this special program featuring the award-winning documentary, Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray, produced by the National Museum's Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center, a screening of never-before-seen home movies taken by Miyatake and the opening of a new exhibit of Miyatake vintage prints. 2:00 pm: Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shad...

Karen Ishizuka, Japanese American National Museum Curator, Named To National Film Preservation Board

1997年04月27日

Karen Ishizuka, media producer and Senior Curator at the Japanese American National Museum, was recently appointed by the Librarian of Congress to the National Film Preservation Board whose mission is to ensure the survival, conservation and increased public availability of America’s film heritage. The board is composed of 40 members and alternates representing the film industry, archives, scholars and filmmak...

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 ...