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Saturday, September 13 Cruising J-Town Mini-Meet Showcases Cars, Coffee, and Street Racers Reunion

2025年09月08日

PSAWHAT:Grab a cup of coffee and join the street racing and import tuner scene reunion that’s part of JANM’s exhibition, Cruising J-Town: Behind the Wheel of the Nikkei Community.WHEN:Saturday, September 13, 2025, from 10 a.m.–12 p.m. PDTDETAILS:This special event will showcase a selection of a dozen cars that reflect the merging of two scenes that many Japanese Americans and Asian Americans participated in from the ...

“Third Act” at the Chicago History Museum

2025年09月07日

JANM is proud to present Third Act at the Chicago History Museum on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2025. 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 own.Using the lesso...

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...

JANM Welcomes New Board Members

2024年02月14日

LOS ANGELES, CA – In 2023, the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) added nineteen new trustees, governors, and honorary members to its board. “Our board members bring a multitude of international experiences to JANM’s leadership. We are grateful for their devotion to strengthening the Museum for years to come. I look forward to expanding the Museum’s work and mission with them to create a just future for all,...

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...

NEW EXHIBITION EXPLORING LIFE AND CAREER OF GEORGE TAKEI OPENING AT JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM

2017年02月27日

Los Angeles, CA A new exhibition exploring the life and career of pioneering actor, activist, and social media icon George Takei will open at the Japanese American National Museum on March 12. New Frontiers: The Many Worlds of George Takei creates a portrait of a unique individual while offering an innovative means of engaging with the social history of America. The exhibition features numerous never-before-seen p...

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...