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May 2025 Member Appreciation Days

2025年05月05日 - 2025年05月11日

Find the perfect gifts for the kids and moms in your life during Member Appreciation Days this year! JANM Members will receive a 20% discount at janmstore.com during Member Appreciation Days from Kodomo no Hi (Monday, May 5) through Mother’s Day (Sunday, May 11).Since the physical JANM Store is closed during the renovation of the Pavilion building, we have extended the usual three days to a week of savings on qualif...

Japanese American National Museum Statement on the Passing of Franklin Odo

2022年10月03日

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) is deeply saddened by the passing of Dr. Franklin Odo on September 28, 2022. Odo was an early advisor and longtime friend of JANM. He was the founding director of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center (APAC) from 1997–2010, a professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Hawai‘i, and a visiting professor of History and American Studies at the U...

TOYOTA PLEDGES SUPPORT TO JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM FOR FIVE YEARS

2017年06月09日

Los Angeles, CA Toyota Motor North America has pledged $500,000 and five new Lexus vehicles to the Japanese American National Museum over the next five years. The vehicles will serve as prizes for opportunity drawings that the museum holds annually as part of its Gala Dinner fundraising activities. The cash and opportunity drawing ticket sales revenue will provide general operating support for all of JANM’s activi...

JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM DEVELOPS LESSON PLANS FOR "INSTRUCTIONS TO ALL PERSONS" EXHIBITION

2017年04月24日

Los Angeles, CA The Japanese American National Museum has developed a series of lesson plans for teachers to complement its Instructions to All Persons: Reflections on Executive Order 9066 exhibition and enhance student learning of the 75th anniversary of President Franklin Roosevelt’s signing of the order that led to the tragic and unlawful incarceration of 120,000 individuals of Japanese ancestry during World Wa...

JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM TRUSTEES SELECT ANN BURROUGHS AS PRESIDENT AND CEO

2017年03月24日

Los Angeles, CA The Board of Trustees of the Japanese American National Museum today announced that Ann Burroughs has been named President and CEO of the museum. Burroughs had been serving in those roles in an interim capacity since June 2016. “Ann has been a skillful leader of the Japanese American National Museum since her first day on the job. She quickly earned the respect and admiration of the museum’s boa...

New Frontiers

2017年03月12日 - 2017年08月20日

New Frontiers: The Many Worlds of George Takei explores the life and career of pioneering actor, activist, and social media icon George Takei, who currently serves on the Japanese American National Museum’s Board of Trustees. By examining Takei’s diverse experiences and achievements, this entertaining exhibition creates a portrait of a unique individual while offering an innovative means of engaging with the social h...

JANM SETS 14TH SUMMER FESTIVAL ON THE COURTYARD FOR AUG. 11

2012年07月26日

The Japanese American National Museum is organizing its 14th Annual Summer Festival on the Courtyard event under the theme, "Japanese American Olympics", on Saturday, August 11, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The festival, which coincides with the first day of the Nisei Week Japanese Festival in Little Tokyo, is free and open to the public. With the London Summer Olympic Games about to conclude that weekend, JANM will org...

CARTOONIST STAN SAKAI TO APPEAR AT MUSEUM'S TARGET FREE FAMILY SATURDAY JULY 9

2011年07月02日

Stan Sakai, famed creator of the iconic comic book samurai rabbit, Usagi Yojimbo, will highlight the Japanese American National Museum’s Target Free Family Saturday, "Once Upon A Time", on Saturday, July 9, with a personal appearance to mark the opening of the Museum’s latest exhibition, Year of the Rabbit: Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo. For over 25 years, Sakai has researched, written and drawn the adventures of Usa...

ACLU'S 90TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION INSTALLED AT MUSEUM THROUGH DEC. 11

2010年11月23日

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), celebrating its 90th Anniversary since its founding, has installed its nationally traveling exhibition, No Victory Ever Stays Won: 90 Years of Protecting Liberty, at the Japanese American National Museum, 369 E. First Street in Little Tokyo, through Saturday, December 11, 2010. The exhibit is broken into various panels, highlighting the nine decades of work by ACLU with s...

DOCUMENTARY ON AUTHOR MICHI WEGLYN TO BE SCREENED SUNDAY, NOV. 7 AT MUSEUM

2010年11月02日

The documentary, "Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn", which profiles the life of a Japanese American woman who became a successful costume designer, but left her mark as the author of a landmark book on the World War II mass incarceration of thousands of people of Japanese ancestry, will be screened at the Japanese American National Museum on Sunday, November 7, beginning at 2 p.m. Weglyn was a successful desig...