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Joint Statement from JANM, Chinese American Museum, LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, and Grand Performances on Los Angeles Protests

2025年06月10日

LOS ANGELES, CA – As museums and arts institutions located in downtown Los Angeles, we see everyday the vibrancy and joy of life in this community and throughout our beautiful city, shared and built by immigrants from all over the world. We take pride in the fact that many of our guests who visit us to enjoy the arts are from this community.This weekend, a manufactured crisis marked by immigration raids and aggressiv...

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 Book Club: Every Peach Is a Story with Nikiko Masumoto

2025年04月19日

Celebrate Little Tokyo Earth Day with author and farmer Nikiko Masumoto as she shares about her debut picture book, Every Peach is a Story, written with her father, David Mas Masumoto, with illustrations by award-winning artist Lauren Tamaki.Every Peach Is a Story follows young Midori and her grandfather, Jiichan, as they uncover the stories of their farm’s fresh fruit and discover that every peach is a sweet reminde...

JANM Raised Over $1.2 Million at the 2025 Benefit

2025年04月15日

The Museum Honored Toshizo Watanabe and Nobuko Miyamoto with the Lifetime Achievement Award and Judi Oyama with the Award of ExcellenceLOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) hosted its annual Benefit and Online Auction at the JW Marriott on Saturday, April 12, 2025. This year’s theme, Unlocking the Future, celebrated JANM’s critical past, dynamic present, and ambitious future through stories o...

2025 Benefit & Online Auction

Thank you to everyone who joined us in person or via livestream for JANM’s 2025 Benefit! On behalf of the Board, staff, and volunteers, thank you to our sponsors and to everyone who helped make our hybrid fundraiser such a success. Your generous support and faith in our mission means so much to us. Thank you for lifting us up with your generosity and unwavering commitment to JANM.

Poetry at the Gate of Memory

2025年03月27日

Join poets Brynn Saito and traci kato-kiriyama for a reading celebrating the forthcoming April 2025 release of The Gate of Memory: Poems by Descendants of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration. Edited by Saito and Brandon Shimoda, this poetry anthology explores the afterlife of the historical yet enduring injustice of World War II–era prisons and camps. Featured readers include David Mura, Heather Nagami, Mia Ayumi Malhotra, ...

2025 Los Angeles Day of Remembrance

2025年02月15日

The annual Los Angeles Day of Remembrance commemorates the signing of Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Executive Order 9066 authorized the US military to forcibly remove persons of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast and set into motion their incarceration into concentration camps during World War II. During JANM on the Go we are pleased to partner with the Los Angeles ...

JANM Presents The Oath of the Sword at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on May 28, 2023

2023年05月08日

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will present the premiere screening of the recently restored 1914 silent film The Oath of the Sword at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Los Angeles, on Sunday, May 28, 2023, at 2 p.m. PDT. Tickets are $5 ($4 for members of the Academy Museum or JANM) and are available at academymuseum.org/calendar. Once thought to be lost, the sole surviving prin...

Under a Mushroom Cloud

2019年11月09日 - 2021年07月25日

To commemorate the upcoming 75th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese American National Museum presents Under a Mushroom Cloud: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Atomic Bomb, organized in partnership with the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Through March 1, 2020, the exhibition will include a special display of artifacts belonging to atomic bomb victims. On August 6, 1945, the B-29 Enol...

Allen Say’s Journey

2000年07月28日 - 2001年02月11日

Allen Say’s Journey: The Art and Words of a Children’s Book Author is the first retrospective exhibition of the art of Allen Say, award-winning children’s book author and illustrator. His drawings, watercolor paintings, and prose explore themes of longing, belonging, and the meaning of “home.” Through the internal conflicts of his characters and their search for identity and self-discovery, one can glimpse into Say’s...