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Ireicho National Tour—Jerome and Rohwer, Arkansas
2025年05月21日 - 2025年05月22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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On 22: Twenty-Two Years of Creativity
2023年10月21日
Join On Ensemble—one of the most respected ensembles in the taiko world—as they celebrate twenty-two years of creativity with a special performance at JANM. Established in 2002 by childhood friends Shoji Kameda and Masato “Maz” Baba, On Ensemble infuses the powerful rhythms of taiko with a wide range of musical influences from jazz and rock to central Asian overtone singing. Modern Drummer magazine calls them “an ...
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JANM Pop-Up at the Segerstrom
2023年06月07日
As co-presenter of Defining Courage, JANM brings select groundbreaking exhibitions to Orange County! EXPLORE THESE FREE POP-UP EXHIBITIONS The Interactive Storyfile of Lawson Iichiro Sakai—Use AI to converse with 442nd Regimental Combat Team veteran Lawson Iichiro Sakai (1924-2020). A Life in Pieces: The Diary and Letters of Stanley Hayami—Explore a young teen’s correspondence and drawings created in the...
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The Democracy Center Celebrates Civic Season with a Dance Performance and More on June 24, 2023
2023年06月02日
LOS ANGELES, CA – The National Center for the Preservation of Democracy (the Democracy Center) at JANM celebrates Civic Season (Juneteenth–July 4) with a dance performance and more on Saturday, June 24, 2023 from 4 p.m.–7 p.m. on the JANM Plaza. This event is free and open to the public; RSVPs are recommended and can be made at janm.org/events/calendar. Civic Season unites America’s newest and oldest federal holid...
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Contested Histories at The Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California (San Francisco, CA)
2018年06月23日 - 2018年06月24日
TRAVELING DISPLAYThe Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern CaliforniaSan Francisco, CASaturday: 9 a.m.–6:30 p.m.; workshop: 5:30 p.m.–6:15 p.m.Sunday: 9 a.m.–6 p.m.; workshop: 3:30 p.m.–4:15 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 wrongful...
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MIXED: PORTRAITS OF MULTIRACIAL KIDS BY KIP FULBECK TO PREMIERE MARCH 20
2010年03月12日
A new exhibition, Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Kids by Kip Fulbeck, featuring over 70 framed photographic images of children of multiple racial heritage and their statements or drawings, will premiere at the Japanese American National Museum on Saturday, March 20, with activities from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The exhibition runs through September 26, 2010. Organized by the National Museum and Kip Fulbeck, an award-win...
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PROF. GREG ROBINSON TO DISCUSS LATEST BOOK, 'A TRAGEDY OF DEMOCRACY', ON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24
2009年10月03日
Respected historian and author Greg Robinson will read excerpts from his latest book, A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America, and will discuss what newly discovered materials he found and how it affects his view of history at a public program set for Saturday, October 24, starting at 2 p.m. at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo. While the story of the unconstitutional mass...
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AUTHOR CATHY IRWIN TO DISCUSS PLIGHT OF MANZANAR ORPHANS ON MARCH 21
2009年03月14日
Author Cathy Irwin will relate stories from her new book, Twice Orphaned: Voices from the Children’s Village of Manzanar, and will discuss the history with some of the orphans forced to live in a government-run World War II concentration camp in a public program set for Saturday, March 21, beginning at 2 p.m., at the Japanese American National Museum. Thousands of Japanese Americans were unlawfully forced to leave...
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Contested Histories: Art and Artifacts from the Allen Hendershott Eaton Collection - Venues
Contested Histories: Art and Artifacts from the Allen Hendershott Eaton Collection originated at the Japanese American National Museum and was on display January 7 – April 8, 2018. The pop-up display is now traveling to other venues. See below for information about confirmed venues and dates. Please check back for updated schedule. Interested in booking this display? JANM is currently looking for locations in the cen...
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In The Future We Call Now: Dreams of Democracy, Realities of Racism
JANM’s New Core Exhibition—Coming in 2026Explore over a century and a half of Japanese American history in the United States to consider the choices our country has made in the past—and the choices we all make today to build the future we want to pass down.The centerpiece of JANM’s ongoing renovation, In The Future We Call Now: Dreams of Democracy, Realities of Racism will feature never-before exhibited artifacts and...