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Nikkei Uncovered IV: a poetry reading

2024年08月22日

Join us for our fourth annual virtual poetry reading with a powerful lineup of poets previously featured in Discover Nikkei’s Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column, hosted by traci kato-kiriyama, author of Navigating With(out) Instruments. Featured poets are Christine Kitano, Mia Ayumi Malhotra and Matthew Mejia.

JANM on the Go will Bring Special Exhibitions, Public Programs throughout Greater LA and Beyond in 2025 and 2026

2024年08月21日

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) announces JANM on the Go, the Museum’s lively schedule of special exhibitions, public programs, family festivals, education programs, and more on the JANM campus, throughout Little Tokyo, the greater Los Angeles area, Southern California, and across the US and Japan. “JANM is a cornerstone of the Little Tokyo community and a powerhouse on the national and...

J. T. Sata Exhibition: Curator Tour with Dennis Reed and Robert Hori

2024年08月17日

Join exhibition curator Dennis Reed and Robert Hori, associate director of Cultural Programs at the Huntington, for a walkthrough of JANM’s exhibition, J. T. Sata: Immigrant Modernist. The exhibition comprises sixty photographs by J. T. Sata, photographs of Sata’s concentration camp paintings and drawings, and family artifacts from camp. Reed will talk about Sata’s photography and legacy as well as the process of cur...

2024 Natsumatsuri Family Festival

2024年08月10日

FREE ALL DAYJoin our annual summer celebration featuring free cultural performances, crafts, and activities for families and kids of all ages!Performances by Ryukyukoku Matsuri Daiko and East LA TaikoBook readings with Nadine Sachiko HsuSouvenir photos by cre8tive outletsFun summer-themed crafts and origamiScavenger hunt for prizesAnd so much more! Plus, free admission all day to see all of our exhibitions Giant Robo...

Celebrating Little Tokyo at 140 Years

2024年08月10日 - 2025年01月05日

Celebrate Little Tokyo’s 140th anniversary with JANM and other Little Tokyo community organizations with the new pop-up exhibit, Celebrating Little Tokyo at 140 Years, now on view in JANM’s Manabi and Sumi Hirasaki National Resource Center through January 5, 2025.The display explores the anniversary’s theme, “Celebrating Our Legacy. Persevering for Our Future.” Highlights include artifacts and items from Koharu resta...

JANM and JACCC Awarded $894,293 in Grants for New Core Exhibition and Foodways Programs

2024年08月07日

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) and the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center (JACCC) have received $894,293 in two grants from the National Park Service’s Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) grant program. The funds will support JANM’s new core exhibition, In the Future We Call Now: Realities of Racism, Dreams of Democracy, and the JACCC’s project, “Ask the Mountain for ...

Manzanar Baseball Project Comes to JANM on August 24, 2024

2024年08月05日

PSAWHAT: During World War II, baseball was a way for Japanese Americans in America’s concentration camps to find a sense of normalcy, uplift their spirits, and claim a connection to American culture. Today, the Manzanar Baseball Project is rebuilding and bringing to life the baseball diamond at Manzanar National Historic Site. WHEN: Saturday, August 24, 2024 from 11 a.m.–1 p.m.DETAILS: This special event will...

JANM Book Club: Most Honorable Son with Gregg Jones

2024年08月03日

Join author Gregg Jones for a discussion around his newest book, Most Honorable Son, which is the first comprehensive biography of Japanese American World War II hero Ben Kuroki.The JANM Book Club is a series of Public Programs that highlights new publications by Japanese Americans or related to Japanese American history and culture. About the bookA Nebraska farm boy who enlisted following the attack on Pearl Harbor...

Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement at AAIFF in New York

2024年08月01日

Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement will have its East Coast premiere at AAIFF in New York on Thursday, August 1, 2024. Following the screening will be a rare cultural experience with a performance by Nobuko Miyamoto, a Q&A with Nobuko and the filmmakers, Tadashi Nakamura and Quyên Nguyen-Le, and a reception.Experience this new sweeping documentary from JANM’s Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center and PBS SoCal that foll...

JANM Announces Fall 2024 Exhibitions and Programs