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9th Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest Virtual Celebration

2022年05月26日

FREE Marvel at the amazing and creative ways that writers can imagine Little Tokyo and expand the fictional boundaries of the Japanese American experience. Each year, the Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest heightens awareness of Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo by challenging both new and experienced writers to write a story that captures the spirit and essence of Little Tokyo and the people in it. In this virtu...

Japanese Cooking for Beginners with Azusa Oda: Chirashi zushi

2021年02月27日

$25 general $20 member In this interactive workshop with cookbook author and designer, Azusa Oda, you will learn how to cook chirashi zushi (sushi rice topped with vegetables, egg, and fish) in celebration of Girl’s Day in Japan! Girl’s Day, also known as Doll’s Day or Hinamatsuri, is celebrated on March 3rd and often involves parties where people share this delicious and portable dish. You will be sent the ingr...

Transcendients Artist Discussion with Taiji Terasaki

2020年02月08日

Join us to celebrate the launch of the exhibition catalog, Transcendients: Heroes at Borders, Los Angeles, in conjunction with the new exhibition, Transcendients: Heroes at Borders. Art critic and curator, Isabella Ellaheh Hughes, will discuss the process of developing the exhibition with contemporary artist, Taiji Terasaki. A light reception and catalog signing with Terasaki and some of the heroes featured in th...

Taiji Terasaki: Transcendients

2020年02月01日 - 2021年05月16日

“Transcendients” combines two words, “transcend” and “transient.” To me the word speaks to those individuals who have honed their inner beings to find a core of strength—a power they use to muster the support and solidarity needed to make a difference. I think of these “Transcendients” as elegant and spiritual examples of the human spirit who will move us forward to the brilliance of humankind.” —Taiji Terasaki ...

Past Present: Conversations with the Future

2019年08月28日 - 2019年08月30日

FREE, open to the public on the JANM Plaza Wednesday–Friday, August 28–30 • 7:30 p.m.–10 p.m. Pulling together the moving parts of her +LAB residency experience, traci kato-kiriyama—with home base JANM—presents a performance-installation utilizing large-scale projections and sound scapes of letters of the past in conversation with the present. From sunset to 10 p.m. each night, the public can enjoy a loop o...

Member Appreciation Days

2018年05月11日 - 2018年05月13日

Friday–Sunday, May 11–13, 2018 Members enjoy a 20% discount at the JANM Store and janmstore.com, plus free admission and a 20% discount at other SoCal institutions, including the Museum of Neon Art, The Library Store, Heritage Square Museum, Pasadena Museum of History, California Science Center, the Fowler Museum, LA Plaza De Culturas y Artes, the Museum of Latin American Art, Kidspace Children’s Museum, and m...

Film Screening—I Am Not Your Negro by Raoul Peck

2017年12月12日

FREE One of the most acclaimed films of 2016 and an Oscar nominee for Best Documentary, I Am Not Your Negro envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin’s original words, spoken by Samuel L. Jackson, with a flood of rich archival material. Q&A to follow screening. Presented in partnership with PBS SoCal.

"Moving Day" program presented by JANM

2017年03月23日

Tonight marks the beginning of Moving Day, on the eve of the original issue date for Civilian Exclusion Order No. 1 (issued on March 24, 1942, to residents of Bainbridge Island, WA). Before the projection begins, join us for the first in a special series of public programs. Featured speakers are JANM volunteers Tohru Isobe and June Berk, both camp survivors, who will discuss what it was like to be forcibly remove...

JANM STATEMENT REGARDING THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

2016年11月10日

The Japanese American National Museum respects the democratic process and its results in selecting the next president of the United States. As an institution whose mission is to promote understanding and appreciation of America’s ethnic and cultural diversity, we hope that the 45th President of the United States will remember the unlawful violation of Japanese Americans’ civil rights during World War II that led to...

Uprooted

2016年09月27日 - 2017年01月08日

Between 1942 and 1944, thousands of incarcerated Japanese Americans were moved from assembly centers and concentration camps to farm labor camps as a way to mitigate the wartime labor shortage. Some 33,000 individual contracts were issued for seasonal farm labor, with many Japanese Americans assigned to work in the sugar beet industry, which played a vital role in producing munitions for the military. Under this seas...