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2016 Oshogatsu Family Festival—Year of the Monkey

2016年01月03日

FREE ALL DAY! Ring in the Year of the Monkey with food, crafts, cultural activities, and performances! Watch Kodama Taiko pound fresh New Year mochi for you Enjoy a Japanese-style lion dance and hip hop dance performances Sample a variety of traditional Japanese New Year foods See Shan the Candyman create amazing monkey candy sculptures, which will be raffled off throughout the day See below for c...

Little Tokyo Walking Tour

2015年12月26日

Relive history and learn about present-day Little Tokyo with JANM docents. $12 members, $15 non-members. Museum admission included. Comfortable walking shoes recommended. Weather permitting.

CANCELLED: Little Tokyo Walking Tour

2015年12月19日

THIS TOUR HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Please join us for the Little Tokyo Walking Tour on Saturday, December 26. Relive history and learn about present-day Little Tokyo with JANM docents. $12 members, $15 non-members. Museum admission included. Comfortable walking shoes recommended. Weather permitting.

Statement Regarding Recent Remarks about the Incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II

2015年12月15日

The Japanese American National Museum believes that our nation’s Constitution demands that the civil liberties of all people be preserved. History reminds us that as a nation we must not target any one group—be it racial, ethnic, religious, or based on any other single criteria—and deprive those in the group of freedom and human rights. We strongly caution against rhetoric that purposely provokes unfounded fear of ...

AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR ALLEN SAY TO LAUNCH LATEST BOOK, 'ERIKA-SAN', JAN. 3, AT MUSEUM

2008年12月23日

World-renowned author and illustrator Allen Say will launch his first book in two years, Erika-san, at a special reading and book signing set for Saturday, January 3, 2009, beginning at 2 p.m. at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo. Based on a true story, the newest masterpiece from the Caldecott medalist is Erika-san, which traces the life of a young girl—inspired as a child by a magical paintin...

TARGET FREE FAMILY SATURDAY, 'ARTFULLY YOURS', SET FOR DECEMBER 13

2008年12月05日

The Japanese American National Museum hosts the latest Target Free Family Saturday event on Saturday, December 13, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., with the theme of "Artfully Yours", featuring hands-on arts and crafts for family members inspired by the current exhibition on display at the National Museum, 20 Years Ago Today: Supporting Visual Artists in L.A., organized by the California Community Foundation and co-sponsored ...

'DREAMS TO DREAMS' VINYL SHOW FEATURES INTERPRETATIONS OF TRADITIONAL DARUMA DOLL

2008年12月04日

The Japanese American National Museum in association with Dacosta of Chocolate Soop has unveiled the first custom vinyl toy show in a museum, the "Dreams to Dreams" Custom Vinyl Show, featuring the works of 40 + artists who customized Chocolate Soop’s DCTO (Dream Come True Object), a futuristic vinyl version of a traditional Japanese Daruma or folk toy. The display will be available through Saturday, January 4, 2009,...

NATIONAL MUSEUM MARKS PASSING OF TRUSTEE WILLIAM 'MO' MARUMOTO

2008年11月26日

The leadership of the Japanese American National Museum expressed its sadness at the passing of long-time Board Trustee William "Mo" Marumoto, who died in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, November 25, 2008. The son of Issei immigrant parents, Marumoto, along with his family, was unconstitutionally incarcerated in a domestic concentration camp at Gila River, Arizona, by the U.S. government during World War II. A gradua...

'THE PINK DRESS' PUPPET PERFORMANCE SET FOR NATIONAL MUSEUM DEC. 6

2008年11月21日

"The Pink Dress", a puppet-theatre performance done in a Japanese Bunraku style and based on a story of a Japanese American teenage girl’s experiences in the World War II domestic concentration camp at Amache, Colorado, will return to the Japanese American National Museum for a single performance on Saturday, Dec. 6, beginning at 2 p.m. The show is being produced by Triumvirate Pi Theatre (Tri-Pi Theatre). Last pr...

Making Waves

The Making Waves: Japanese American Photography, 1920–1940 exhibition took an in-depth look at pre-war Japanese American photographers and photography clubs along the Pacific coast whose works were exhibited and published internationally to considerable acclaim. Sadly, much of this output was lost or destroyed during the forced incarceration of Japanese Americans at the onset of World War II. These profiles were prod...