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Ireicho National Tour—Minidoka

2025年07月11日 - 2025年07月13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...

Author Conversation—A Rebel’s Outcry: Biography of Issei Civil Rights Leader Sei Fujii

2022年09月03日

FREE In Person RSVP Virtual RSVP Celebrate the release of the award-winning biography of civil rights leader, Sei Fujii, with a special 10th anniversary screening of the short film Lil Tokyo Reporter and a discussion around the biography. The conversation will include filmmaker and publisher Jeffrey Gee Chin and Academy Award-winner Chris Tashima, and actress Keiko Agena. This program is prese...

Exhibition Tour of BeHere / 1942 with artist Masaki Fujihata

2022年05月26日

FREE Join Masaki Fujihata, the visionary Japanese media artist behind BeHere / 1942: A New Lens on the Japanese American Incarceration, for a guided tour of JANM’s newest exhibition. Photo credit: Jim Conner

Screening and Q&A —The Race Epidemic: Resurgence of the Yellow Peril

2021年10月14日

FREE ($20 Suggested Donation) This screening is currently SOLD OUT. If you would like to be added to a wait list to be alerted if tickets become available or are interested in seating in the overflow screening space, please email publicprograms@janm.org. Join Representative Mark Takano, CA State Treasurer John Chiang, and John Kobara (JANM Board of Governors) in a conversation emcee'd by Fox 11 An...

Recollections of Family History

2016年04月16日

In this panel discussion moderated by exhibition curator Dennis Reed, family members of photographers featured in Making Waves will discuss the artists’ lives and activities. The discussion will move through three time periods—the 1920s and ’30s, the World War II incarceration, and the postwar period—and include time for audience Q&A. Confirmed participants include representatives from the families of Harry Hayash...

2013 Natsumatsuri Family Festival

2013年08月10日

FREE ALL DAY! This year JANM is excited to be starting a new tradition. Natsumatsuri means “summer festival” in Japanese and we hope you will join us for a day of sharing and learning, as we celebrate old and new traditions with cultural performances, demonstrations, activities, and crafts! Members Only Special perks available for JANM members! Be sure to check in at the front desk to get a member sticker so yo...

1st & Central Summer Concerts Returns for Third Year on June 28th

2007年06月11日

The heart of Los Angeles’ burgeoning downtown arts scene will come alive with songs and sounds from around the world this summer as the Japanese American National Museum presents its annual outdoor music series, "1st & Central Summer Concerts," with six free-to-the-public, mid-week programs of world music, June 28th to Sept. 13. The series launches with Enzo Avitabile & Bottari, featuring the internationally renow...

2004 "Oshogatsu": New Year Family Day Festival

2004年01月04日

1 p.m.–4 p.m. Arts and Crafts Classes for Children of All Ages—Learn about New Year’s symbols and traditions 1 p.m. Oshogatsu Storytelling with the improv troupe Cold Tofu. 1 p.m. New Year’s Craft Class with Ryosen Shibata 2 p.m. Mochitsuki, traditional rice cake pounding performance with Kodama Taiko 3 p.m. Aikido & Iaido Martial Arts demonstration by the Aikido Center of Los Angeles. Aiki...

Day of Remembrance

2001年02月17日

Day of Remembrance (DOR), the community's annual commemoration of President Roosevelt's signing of EO 9066 and the World War II exclusion and internment of Japanese Americans and Japanese Latin Americans, will be held at the Japanese American National Museum. The 2001 DOR marks the 20th Anniversary of the Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress (NCRR), formerly known as the National Coalition for Redress & Reparation. Th...

Day of Remembrance

1997年02月22日

Presented by the National Coalition for Redress and Reparations in celebrating the 16th anniversary of the first “Day of Remembrance.” This program commemorates the signing on February 19, 1942 of Executive Order 9066 authorizing the mass evacuation and incarceration of all West Coast Japanese Americans in concentration camps.