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2025 Kokoro Craft Show

2025年10月11日

Celebrate and shop during the 17th Anniversary of the Kokoro Craft Show at the Los Angeles Hompa Hongwanji Buddhist Temple!This annual craft show is sponsored by the Friends of JANM and features fashion apparel and accessories, jewelry, ceramics, gifts, and more from over forty vendors. All proceeds benefit JANM’s cultural, educational, and volunteer programs. Pre-order bentos from Far Bar by September 30 (DETAILS).T...

JANM Congratulates Clement Hanami on Receiving the Western Museums Association’s Leadership Award

2025年10月08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) congratulates Vice President of Exhibitions and Art Director, Clement Hanami, on receiving the Western Museums Association’s (WMA) 2025 Leadership Award. This award is given to individuals who have significan...

JANM’s Democracy Center Reschedules Inaugural Irene Hirano Inouye Distinguished Lecture to March 14

2025年01月28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 – Due to the recent Los Angeles fires, the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) has rescheduled the inaugural Irene Hirano Inouye Distinguished Lecture with guest speaker Lonnie G. Bunch III, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, to Friday, March ...

Contested Histories at The Japanese American Museum of San Jose (San Jose, CA)

2018年07月12日 - 2018年07月15日

TRAVELING DISPLAYJapanese American Museum of San JoseSan Jose, CA12 a.m.–4 p.m. 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 to examine any aspect of the live...

Perseverance at the Middlebury College Museum of Art (Middlebury, VT)

2016年06月10日 - 2016年08月07日

TRAVELING EXHIBITION Middlebury College Museum of Art Middlebury, VT Perseverance: Japanese Tattoo Tradition in a Modern World is a groundbreaking photographic exhibition that explores the master craftsmanship of traditional Japanese tattoos and their enduring influence on modern tattoo practices. Even as Japanese-style tattooing has moved into the mainstream, it remains an enigmatic and misunderst...

Perseverance at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond, VA)

2015年05月29日 - 2015年11月29日

TRAVELING EXHIBITION Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Richmond, VA Perseverance: Japanese Tattoo Tradition in a Modern World is a groundbreaking photographic exhibition that explores the master craftsmanship of traditional Japanese tattoos and their enduring influence on modern tattoo practices. Even as Japanese-style tattooing has moved into the mainstream, it remains an enigmatic and misunderstood ar...

COMMUNITY DAY OF PAINTING SET FOR JANM-COMMISSIONED MURAL

2014年10月15日

The Japanese American National Museum has commissioned a mural for the north wall of its Tateuchi Democracy Forum and invites the public to participate in a community day of painting on Saturday, October 25, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. All ages are welcome and no reservations or tickets are required. Moon Beholders has been designed by muralist, author, and illustrator Katie Yamasaki. Yamasaki is based in Brooklyn,...

A Day in the Life of Asian Pacific America

2014年05月10日

The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center + Flickr present A Day in the Life of Asian Pacific America Somewhere in Asian Pacific America, a child cries; a father cooks breakfast; a mother dresses and goes to work. A thousand tasks get done. A thousand dreams are born. A Day in the Life of Asian Pacific America seeks to capture the particulars of everyday life and piece them together to compose the ...

AUTHOR JOHN CHRISTGAU TO DISCUSS TREATMENT OF 'ENEMY ALIENS' DURING WW II

2010年08月19日

Examination of the United States Government’s Enemy Alien Internment Program, which operated from 1941 to 1946, is the subject of a public program featuring author John Christgau on Saturday, August 28, beginning at 2 p.m., at the Japanese American National Museum. Christgau is the author of the book, Enemies: World War II Alien Internment, as well as a collaborator on the photo exhibit, "The Alien Enemy Files: Hi...

2009 DAY OF REMEMBRANCE, ‘FORGING ALLIANCES', SET FOR FEB. 21

2009年02月13日

The organizing committee for the 2009 Day of Remembrance program, set for Saturday, February 21, beginning at 2 p.m. at the Japanese American National Museum, announced that the theme for this year’s program will be, "Forging Alliances: Connecting Nikkei to Current Immigration". The keynote speaker will be Professor Roger Daniels, a nationally-recognized scholar in the area of immigration and the Japanese American Wo...