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Ireicho National Tour—Fort Lincoln, North Dakota
2025年09月05日 - 2025年09月06日
JANM is partnering with The Irei Project and USC’s Duncan Ryuken Williams to travel The Ireichō: Book of Names in conjunction with pilgrimages to all ten former War Relocation Authority concentration camps, to other Department of Justice and Wartime Civil Control Administration incarceration sites, and selected cities across the US. The tour is part of JANM on the Go, a series of programs and exhibitions presented ac...
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JANM to Celebrate Final Weeks of Core Exhibition Common Ground on November 23
2024年11月13日
LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will celebrate its longtime core exhibition, Common Ground: The Heart of Community, with an afternoon of festivities that highlight over 140 years of Japanese American history on Saturday, November 23, 2024, from 12 p.m.–5 p.m. PT. In honor of Common Ground, admission will be $6 ($5 seniors, $3 students and youth 6–17, free for JANM Members and children),...
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JANM Mourns the Passing of Gary Y. Okihiro
2024年05月29日
LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) mourns the passing of renowned author and scholar, Gary Y. Okihiro. He was a visiting professor of American studies at Yale University, professor emeritus of international and public affairs at Columbia University, and founding director of Columbia’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race. “Okihiro’s work was instrumental to and deeply valued by J...
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2024 Day of Remembrance
2024年02月19日
LOS ANGELES, CA – Today is the Day of Remembrance, a somber day that commemorates real people and families who were unjustly imprisoned during World War II when President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942. As JANM commemorates this anniversary, I recall my grandfather, Fred Jiro Fujioka, who helped many Southern California Issei establish their businesses and farms. I also think about my ...
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The Japanese American National Museum Announces 30 Changemakers Under 30 for the Museum’s 30th Anniversary
2022年04月20日
LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will honor 30 Changemakers under 30 years old at JANM’s 30th Anniversary Benefit on April 30, 2022. Established in 1985, JANM promotes the understanding and appreciation of America’s ethnic and cultural diversity by sharing the Japanese American experience. JANM opened to the public in the Historic Building, the former Nishi Hongwanji Buddhist Temple, ...
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JANM Digital Film Festival Premiere: Our Man in Tokyo (The Ballad of Shin Miyata)
2020年05月08日
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 involved in...
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ANN BURROUGHS ELECTED CHAIR OF AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL’S GLOBAL COUNCIL
2018年08月15日
Los Angeles, CA—Ann Burroughs, President and CEO of the Japanese American National Museum, has been named Chair of Amnesty International’s Global Council, the organization’s highest decision-making body that brings together human rights leaders from over 70 countries. “Ann has been a transformative leader of the Japanese American National Museum since joining us 2016. She has long been involved with Amnesty Intern...
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JANM ANNOUNCES NEW VP OF EXTERNAL RELATIONS
2015年11月30日
Rick Noguchi has been hired as Vice President of External Relations for the Japanese American National Museum. He began his role on November 16. Noguchi reports to JANM President and CEO Greg Kimura. The hiring marks a return to the museum for Noguchi, who previously held positions there in public programs and development. He has more than 20 years of experience in the nonprofit sector, serving in various mana...
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First Major Exhibition of Rarely Seen Ceramic Works by Isamu Noguchi to Open In Only West Coast Venue, The Japanese American National Museum
2003年12月31日
A major survey of postwar Japanese ceramic art focusing on the work of Japanese American artist Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988) and his Japanese contemporaries opens at its only west coast venue, the Japanese American National Museum, on February 7, 2004. Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics is a landmark traveling exhibition organized by the Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, and is the first major museum pr...
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Transcendients: 100 Days of COVID-19 and Memorial to Healthcare Workers
Transcendients: 100 Days of COVID-19 and Memorial to Healthcare Workers Artist Statement by Taiji Terasaki In March of 2020, when Stay-at-Home Orders were imposed on much of the United States and the world, I found myself socially distanced in my studio. Responding to the uncertainties and anxieties the pandemic brought, I tried to find light in positive stories. So I started a meditative weaving process...