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Cruising J-Town Mini-Meet: Street Racers Reunion

2025年09月13日

Grab a cup of coffee and join the street racing and import tuner scene reunion that’s part of JANM’s exhibition, Cruising J-Town: Behind the Wheel of the Nikkei Community. This event will showcase a selection of a dozen cars that reflect the merging of two scenes that many Japanese Americans and Asian Americans participated in from the 1970s through the 2000s.Please note that cars must be invited to join the main ev...

Celebration of Life for Secretary Norman Y. Mineta June 25 at LA’s Japanese American National Museum

2022年06月21日

WHAT: A celebration of the extraordinary life of U.S. Secretary Norman Y. Mineta, chair of the board of trustees at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM). Secretary Mineta died May 3 at age 90. Read JANM’s statement on his legacy and passing. WHO: Local, national and international guests will gather at JANM to celebrate and remember Secretary Mineta, who was imprisoned at the Heart Mountain concent...

Members Only Virtual Conversation: A Life in Pieces

2021年08月14日

All JANM Members are invited to an exclusive Members Only virtual conversation with JANM’s VP of Exhibitions and Art Director Clement Hanami, writer/filmmaker Sharon Yamato, actor Kurt Kanazawa, and Emblematic's founder and CEO Nonny de la Peña. They will discuss the virtual reality video created for A Life in Pieces: The Diary and Letters of Stanley Hayami. This program is FREE for all members, but RSVPs are requ...

Museum Store Sunday

2020年11月29日

FREE GIFT WITH PURCHASE OF $20 OR MORE! We are celebrating the fourth annual Museum Store Sunday on November 29 by offering a special gift with purchases over $20! Get a FREE mixed set of Allen Say’s Tree of Cranes holiday cards. Enjoy six each of his two signature illustrations (a total of 12 cards) from the Caldecott Award-winning artist’s very special holiday book. On November 29, 2020, when you purch...

KOKORO CRAFT BOUTIQUE SET FOR OCTOBER 2 AT JANM

2016年09月07日

The eighth annual Kokoro Craft Boutique, organized by volunteers at the Japanese American National Museum, will take place Sunday, October 2, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Yuujou Daiko, a taiko performance group based in South San Gabriel, will perform at 1 p.m. Kokoro Craft Boutique will feature more than 50 vendors selling unique jewelry, kimono fabric fashions, Giant Robot merchandise, handbags, ceramics, origami ...

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...

Japanese American National Museum to Host Smithsonian’s National Youth Summit on Japanese American Incarceration in World War II

2016年05月05日

The Japanese American National Museum will host the "National Youth Summit on Japanese American Incarceration in World War II," an online outreach program organized by the museum in partnership with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. The event will take place at JANM, a Smithsonian Affiliate, on Tuesday, May 17, 2016, at 10 a.m. (PDT) and will link middle and high schools students from across th...

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...

National Conferences

JANM’s national conferences have strived to present transformative programming, presentations, and activities to multigenerational audiences. Each conference delved into historic and contemporary Japanese American experiences—within the context of democracy and social justice—by drawing upon scholarly analysis, community perspectives, and the power of the conference host site. Conversations begun at the conferences h...

Collections

The over 150,000 objects that comprise the JANM permanent collection chronicle the Japanese American experience in its entirety from early immigration to the present. Artifacts related to early immigration to the United States at the turn of the 20th century, early life in Japanese American communities, and the World War II incarceration experience and military service are strengths of the collection.