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JANM Mourns the Passing of US Senator Dianne Feinstein

2023年09月30日

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) mourns the passing of US Senator Dianne Feinstein. She was San Francisco’s first female mayor and one of California’s two first female senators. In Congress, she was the first woman to lead the Senate Intelligence Committee and was the first woman to serve as the Judiciary Committee’s top Democrat. Throughout her career she advocated for civil liberties, ...

JANM Mourns the Passing of Bob Moriguchi

2023年07月13日

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) mourns the passing of Bob Moriguchi. A Charter Member, Mr. Moriguchi regularly volunteered on Wednesdays and Saturdays as a Common Ground and Little Tokyo Walking Tour docent and as a school visits facilitator. He attended many of the Museum’s national conferences, served on the Gala Dinner Committee, and was involved in volunteer fundraising campaigns. A...

The Japanese American National Museum Mourns the Passing of Tomio Ito, Former Member of the Museum's Board of Governors

2023年02月24日

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) is saddened by the recent passing of Tomio Ito, who served as a member of the Museum’s Board of Governors from 1996–2014. Ito’s parents, Gonsaku and Mine, came from Yokkaichi, Japan, to California in 1918 in search of a prosperous life. They eventually settled in Venice, where Tomio was born in 1924. He learned English and Japanese, worked on the farm,...

Allied with Japanese America: New Stories of Supporters during World War II

2018年12月08日

If you missed the symposium, you can watch one of the sessions with filmmaker Kimiko Marr and author/professor Scott Kurashige online on JANM’s YouTube channel. FREE During World War II, many people defended Japanese Americans living under martial law in Hawaii. Others supported Japanese Americans in the US military, those behind barbed wire in America’s concentration camps, and families trying to ...

"HELLO! EXPLORING THE SUPERCUTE WORLD OF HELLO KITTY" EXHIBITION CATALOG NOW AVAILABLE

2014年11月19日

The catalog for the Japanese American National Museum’s Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty exhibition is now available for purchase at the JANM Store and online at janmstore.com. It is priced at $30. Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty is the first large-scale museum retrospective of the iconic Sanrio character in the United States. The exhibition combines an extensive survey o...

JANM PRESENTS OPPORTUNITIES TO GO BENEATH THE SURFACE OF "PERSEVERANCE"

2014年05月28日

The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) has scheduled two gallery talks, a film-related lecture, and an artist Q-and-A in conjunction with its current exhibition, Perseverance: Japanese Tattoo Tradition in a Modern World. A groundbreaking show exploring the often under-appreciated history of Japanese tattoo art and its influence on contemporary Western and Japanese tattoo culture, Perseverance welcomed hundred...

‘PORTRAITURE NOW: ASIAN AMERICAN PORTRAITS OF ENCOUNTER’ OPENS AT JANM MAY 11

2013年04月22日

Los Angeles—The Japanese American National Museum is pleased to present Portraiture Now: Asian American Portraits of Encounter from May 11 through September 22, 2013. Portraiture Now is a collaboration between the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program who have mounted the Smithsonian’s first major showcase of contemporary Asian American portraiture. Through the wo...

Fighting For Democracy at Levine Museum of the New South (Charlotte, NC)

2013年01月19日 - 2013年07月14日

TRAVELING EXHIBITION Levine Museum of the New South Charlotte, North Carolina About the Exhibition Through the diverse perspectives of seven ordinary citizens whose lives and communities were forever changed by World War II, this exhibition asks visitors to think critically about freedom, history, and, ultimately, the ongoing struggle to live democratically in a diverse America. Fighting For Democra...

NATIONAL MUSEUM TO MARK 10TH YEAR OF CORE EXHIBITION 'COMMON GROUND' ON JAN. 25

2009年01月20日

The Japanese American National Museum will commemorate 10 years of its programs and projects since the opening of its Pavilion in 1999, beginning with a special event focused on its core exhibition, Common Ground: The Heart of Community, set for Sunday, January 25, 2009, at 1 p.m. at the National Museum in Little Tokyo. The program, "10th Anniversary of the Opening of Common Ground: The Heart of Community", will l...

Boyle Heights: The Power of Place—Community

The Boyle Heights Project represents an expansion of the Japanese American National Museum's partnership initiatives and manifests our commitment to exploring the multicultural experiences of the United States. This section highlights some of the strategies and methods used to engage in community-based documentation and interpretation.