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POSTPONED: Defining Courage at the USC Day of Remembrance (Los Angeles)

2025年02月19日

This event has been postponed to 2026. Defining Courage is a journey into the legacy of the Nisei Soldier, Americans of Japanese ancestry who served in the segregated military units of the 100th Infantry Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, Military Intelligence Service, and 522nd Field Artillery Battalion. Considered the greatest fighting units in American military history, most have never heard their extraordin...

JANM Mourns Losses of Los Angeles Area Wildfires

2025年01月09日

Editor’s 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) is deeply saddened by the loss of life and devastation caused by the ongoing wildfires in the Los Angeles area. JANM feels for everyone affected by the Palisades, Eaton, and Hurst fires in Pacific Palisades, Altade...

JANM Mourns the Passing of Former President Jimmy Carter

2024年12月30日

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum mourns the passing of former President Jimmy Carter, a lifelong advocate for justice and human rights and an early ally in the movement for redress for Japanese Americans unjustly incarcerated during World War II. In 1980, President Carter signed a law establishing the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC), which was instrumental i...

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, ...

JANM Digital Film Festival: "Masters of Modern Design"

2020年05月24日

FREE Join us as we dive into films produced by the Japanese American National Museum’s Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center! We will be releasing a selection of films, some for a limited time only. Organize a (virtual) screening party with your friends or family or just get cozy and enjoy the JANM Digital Film Festival from the safety of your own home. We will also have Q&A sessions with the filmmakers and others inv...

Contested Histories at National Museum of American History (Washington, DC)

2020年02月19日

TRAVELING DISPLAYNational Museum of American HistoryWashington, DC10 a.m.–5:30 p.m.FREE and open to the public* Allen Hendershott Eaton’s historic 1952 book, Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps, explored art and craft objects created by persons of Japanese descent while wrongfully incarcerated in the World War II American concentration camps. It was one of the first books t...

DISCOVER NIKKEI CALLS FOR STORIES OF NIKKEI HEROES

2019年05月20日

Los Angeles, CA—Discover Nikkei, a multi-lingual online resource of the Japanese American National Museum, has launched the eighth edition of Nikkei Chronicles, an annual theme-driven online journal with an open call for writings. This year’s theme is Nikkei Heroes: Trailblazers, Role Models, and Inspirations. “Hero” can mean different things to different people. Perhaps it’s a relative that someone admires or loo...

Community Day of Remembrance

2014年02月15日

Pay-what-you-can! GENERATIONS SPEAK OUT: IMPACTS OF E.O. 9066 The annual Day of Remembrance commemorates the signing of Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, which enabled the military to forcibly remove and incarcerate 120,000 Japanese American men, women and children. This devastating experience to the Issei and Nisei continues to impact our multigenerational community ...

KRISTINA MCMORRIS, AUTHOR OF 'BRIDGE OF SCARLET LEAVES' TO SPEAK AT JANM ON JULY 14

2012年07月06日

Kristina McMorris, author of the novel Bridge of Scarlet Leaves, will read from her book and speak at a public program set for the Japanese American National Museum on Saturday, July 14, beginning at 2 p.m. Bridge of Scarlet Leaves begins in 1941 when young Maddie Kern secretly elopes with her Japanese American boy friend, Lane Moritomo. Besides the turmoil created in both families over the inter-racial union (whi...

AUTHOR OF 'SOLDIERS OF CONSCIENCE' TO SPEAK AT MUSEUM ON NOVEMBER 1

2008年10月29日

Dr. Shirley Castelnuovo will discuss her book, Soldiers of Conscience: Japanese American Military Resisters in World War II, in a public program set for the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo, on Saturday, November 1, beginning at 2 p.m. During World War II, the U.S. government unconstitutionally forced over 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry from their homes, mostly on the West Coast and parts ...