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2025 Natsumatsuri Family Festival is on Saturday, August 16

2025年08月11日

Media AdvisoryWHAT: Celebrate summer with us at JANM’s Democracy Center and the Norman Y. Mineta Democracy Plaza featuring free cultural performances, crafts, and activities for families and kids of all ages!The festival is sponsored by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Nissan Foundation, the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, and the Port of Long Beach. The media sponsor is T...

JANM Presents Free 2025 Natsumatsuri Family Festival on Saturday, August 16

2025年08月11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) presents the 2025 Natsumatsuri Family Festival on Saturday, August 16, 2025 from 12 p.m.–5 p.m. The free family festival celebrates the summer at JANM’s Democracy Center and the Norman Y. Mineta Democracy Pla...

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,...

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...

JANM Digital Film Festival: Madame Fujima Kansuma

2020年06月19日

FREE Join us as we dive into films produced by the Japanese American National Museum’s Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center! We will be releasing a selection of films, some for a limited time only. Organize a (virtual) screening party with your friends or family or just get cozy and enjoy the JANM Digital Film Festival from the safety of your own home. We will also have Q&A sessions with the filmmakers and others inv...

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...

VIRTUAL LIVE TALK: The Japanese Hospital in Los Angeles: Reflections on a Hospital for All

2020年04月25日

FREE In the midst of this current COVID-19 pandemic, we’re learning more about the 1918 Influenza pandemic and its devastation across the globe. We’re also more aware of the impacts on communities of color and the long history of unequal access to health care. Join Kristen Hayashi, PhD, Director of Collections Management & Access and Curator at JANM, for a virtual live talk and Q&A that takes a historical l...

JANM WINS 2020 SUPERINTENDENT AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN MUSEUM EDUCATION

2020年01月23日

The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) has been selected to receive a 2020 Superintendent's Award for Excellence in Museum Education for the School Visits Program. The three award-winning organizations will be presented with their awards by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond (or his designee) at the Opening Town Hall program of California Association of Museums's (CAM) annual conferenc...

JANM’S ANNUAL OSHOGATSU FAMILY FESTIVAL SET FOR JANUARY 3, 2016

2015年12月14日

The Japanese American National Museum will hold its annual Oshogatsu Family Festival on Sunday, January 3, 2016, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The new year celebration will include free crafts, performances, and cultural activities for people of all ages to help ring in the Year of the Monkey. Highlights of the day will include demonstrations of the ancient art of candy sculpting, a scavenger hunt, a Curious George-t...

KOKORO CRAFT BOUTIQUE SET FOR OCTOBER 4 AT JANM

2015年09月09日

The seventh annual Kokoro Craft Boutique, organized by volunteers at the Japanese American National Museum, will take place Sunday, October 4, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Those who make purchases of $10 or more will receive same-day free admission to the museum, as well 10% discounts at several participating Little Tokyo restaurants. Yuujou Daiko, a taiko performance group based in South San Gabriel, will perform at 1 p...