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Member Appreciation Days

2022年05月06日 - 2022年05月08日

Are you a JANM Member? Join us for MADness 2022! This year M.A.D. will take place from May 6-8 and all current Members will get 20% off discountable items. To receive the special 20% off discount online, enter the Discount code: MADNESS at checkout. If your membership is active in our system your 20% discount will automatically be applied to all eligible items in your order. When placing your order please use ...

Staging our Histories: Creating Masao and the Bronze Nightingale

2022年05月03日

FREE In Person RSVP Virtual RSVP Join writers Dan Kwong and Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara in a conversation moderated by Kristen Hayashi around their new play, Masao and the Bronze Nightingale, which explores the story of a Japanese American jazz musician from Boyle Heights who falls for an African American jazz singer after World War II. About the show: In the aftermath of WWII, formerly-incarcerated Japa...

The Japanese American National Museum Mourns the Passing of Board of Trustees Chair Norman Y. Mineta

2022年05月03日

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) is deeply saddened by the passing of an extraordinary leader, friend, and JANM Board of Trustees Chair, the Honorable Norman Y. Mineta. Secretary Mineta was 90 when he passed away on Tuesday, May 3, 2022 at his home in Edgewater, Maryland. Over thirty years ago, volunteers invested in the vision for a museum that would preserve Japanese American histo...

Augmented Reality Exhibition Places Viewers in Midst of WWII-era Forced Removal of Japanese Americans

2022年05月02日

LOS ANGELES, CA – Eighty years ago, during World War II, the U.S. government forcibly removed Japanese Americans from the West Coast, incarcerating 120,000 in concentration camps. This May, an exhibition at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) lets visitors step into those dark days of 1942 through an augmented reality re-creation at the very site where thousands of Japanese Americans living in downtown Los A...

JANM’s 30th Anniversary Benefit

2022年04月30日

We cordially invite you to join us for a special evening of celebration on the historic occasion of JANM’s 30th Anniversary. We’ll reflect on all we’ve accomplished in our first three decades and the timeliness and timelessness of our mission as we continue to illluminate the Japanese American experience and promote greater understanding and appreciation of America’s ethnic and cultural diversity. Most of all, it’...

30th Anniversary Benefit

Thank you to everyone who joined us in person or via livestream for JANM’s 30th Anniversary Benefit! On behalf of the Board, staff, and volunteers, thank you to our sponsors and to everyone who helped to make our first hybrid fundraiser such a success. Your generous support and faith in our mission means so much to us. Thank you for lifting us up with your generosity and unwavering commitment to JANM.

Virtual Educator Workshop—Teaching the Japanese American WWII Experience Through Art

2022年04月28日

Free Join the JANM Education Unit for this free virtual educator workshop on using art to teach the Japanese American WWII incarceration experience. JANM’s collection of art includes thousands of individual pieces as well as large bodies of work by artists such as Miné Okubo, Henry Sugimoto, Hisako Hibi, and others. Join educators from across the country to learn about the lived experience of forced removal and in...

Uprising: Reflections on ’92

2022年04月21日

FREE In Person RSVP Virtual RSVP On April 29, 1992, the day of the planned opening of the Japanese American National Museum, the four officers accused of violently beating Rodney King on video were acquitted leading to city-wide civil unrest. The museum’s opening in this moment of racial reckoning has shaped its history forever, much as the uprisings changed the story of all of Los Angeles. Josie Hua...

The Japanese American National Museum Announces 30 Changemakers Under 30 for the Museum’s 30th Anniversary

2022年04月20日

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will honor 30 Changemakers under 30 years old at JANM’s 30th Anniversary Benefit on April 30, 2022. Established in 1985, JANM promotes the understanding and appreciation of America’s ethnic and cultural diversity by sharing the Japanese American experience. JANM opened to the public in the Historic Building, the former Nishi Hongwanji Buddhist Temple, ...

JANM’S 2019 NATSUMATSURI FAMILY FESTIVAL OFFERS FREE FUN FOR EVERYONE

2019年07月24日

Los Angeles, CA—The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will present its annual Natsumatsuri Family Festival on Saturday, August 10, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission to the summer celebration featuring Japanese and Japanese American performances, crafts, and activities is free. Craft activities will include origami, shave ice suncatchers, and JANM’s ever-popular paper hat making. Visitors will also be able to...