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Film Screening—Dealing with Dad

2025年06月26日

Join JANM and Changing Tides for a screening of the award-winning and poignant dramedy, Dealing with Dad. When Margaret reluctantly returns to her hometown to deal with her dad’s sudden depression, she and her brothers learn how to work together to help him get better and rediscover their relationship with him and with each other.The screening will be followed by a Q&A discussion with the film’s writer and director, ...

Solidarity: The Black Panther Party Discusses the History and Future of Coalition Building

2023年08月26日

Decades ago, the common experiences of Japanese Americans and Black citizens developed into a coalition that worked to support their communities. Join us as we engage in a panel with former Black Panther Party members to learn about the historical context of the Party’s work with Japanese Americans, and what a future roadmap for continued and expanded solidarity with all marginalized communities looks like in 2023 an...

JANM Mourns the Passing of Trustee Thomas Masami Yuki

2023年01月23日

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) is deeply saddened by the passing of Thomas Masami “Tom” Yuki, a member of the Museum’s Board of Trustees. He passed away peacefully in his sleep on December 10, 2022. He was eighty-seven years old. Tom Yuki was born on June 29, 1935, in Salinas, California, to Takeo and Miyoko Yuki. His grandfather emigrated from the town of Kaita in Hiroshima, Japan,...

JANM Mourns the Passing of Roger Daniels, Preeminent Historian and Scholar of the World War II Japanese American Incarceration Experience

2022年12月16日

LOS ANGELES, CA –The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) is saddened by the passing of Roger Daniels, the preeminent historian and scholar of his generation on the World War II Japanese American experience. He was ninety-five years old when he passed away on December 9, 2022. Daniels was the Charles Phelps Taft Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Cincinnati. Beginning with The Politics of Preju...

2022 Los Angeles Day of Remembrance

2022年02月19日

The annual Los Angeles Day of Remembrance commemorates the signing on February 19, 1942 of Executive Order 9066 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Executive Order 9066 authorized the military to remove and incarcerate persons of Japanese ancestry into American concentration camps during World War II. Focusing on the theme of “Power of Communities: Building Strength Through Collective Action,” this year’s vi...

Sparking Stories: A Conversation with Shirley Ann Higuchi & Tamlyn Tomita

2021年01月09日

FREE "Poignant. How the power of an untold secret can affect how one lives and, with its revelation, can spark others to tell their own. With a good story, we can change ourselves, our country, our world for the better. Setsuko's Secret is one of the good stories." —Tamlyn Tomita Setsuko’s Secret: Heart Mountain and the Legacy of the Japanese American Incarceration by Shirley Ann Higuchi blends persona...

JANM Digital Film Festival: Our Man in Tokyo Q&A

2020年05月15日

FREE Discover the behind the scenes experience of developing and creating the documentary, Our Man in Tokyo (The Ballad of Shin Miyata), in this live Q&A with Shin Miyata himself, director Akira Boch, and featured musicians Martha Gonzalez of Quetzal and David Gomez. The short film explores the struggles and obsessions of Shin Miyata, a Tokyo-based record label owner and promoter who specializes in the diff...

DODGERS MANAGER DAVE ROBERTS TO SPEAK AT JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM

2016年06月06日

Dave Roberts, the first ethnic minority manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers will give a talk about his life and career at the Japanese American National Museum on Saturday, June 18, at 10:30 a.m. The discussion will be moderated by Scott Akasaki, the Dodgers’ Director of Team Travel. Roberts will discuss his history and future with the Dodgers; how his half-Japanese, half-African American background has informed his...

JANM TO OPEN TWO PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITIONS

2016年01月20日

The Japanese American National Museum will open two new exhibitions on February 28, 2016. Making Waves: Japanese American Photography, 1920–1940 is an in-depth examination of the contributions of Japanese Americans to photography, particularly modernist art photography. Two Views: Photographs by Ansel Adams and Leonard Frank examines the forced incarceration of citizens of Japanese descent who were living in the west...

JANM ANNOUNCES HONOREES AND THEME FOR 2016 ANNUAL GALA DINNER

2016年01月11日

The Japanese American National Museum will hold its annual Gala Dinner, Silent Auction, and After Party on March 19, 2016, at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Suites, Los Angeles. The evening’s theme will be Moving Images, Telling Stories and the honorees will be award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns along with Karen L. Ishizuka and Robert A. Nakamura, who, among other notable accomplishments, founded JANM’s Frank H. W...