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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...

“Third Act” at the 41st LA Asian Pacific Film Festival at JANM

2025年05月04日

JANM is proud to present Third Act at the Tateuchi Democracy Forum as part of the 41st LA Asian Pacific Film Festival on Sunday, May 4. Generations of artists call Robert A. Nakamura “the godfather of Asian American media,” but his son and the director of JANM’s Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center, Tadashi Nakamura, calls him Dad. As Parkinson’s disease clouds Robert’s memory, Tad sets out to retrieve his story—and in ...

Los Angeles Premiere of Third Act at the 41st LA Asian Pacific Film Festival

2025年05月03日

JANM is proud to present the Los Angeles premiere of Third Act at the LA Asian Pacific Film Festival on May 3. Generations of artists call Robert A. Nakamura “the godfather of Asian American media,” but his son and the director of JANM’s Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center, Tadashi Nakamura, calls him Dad. As Parkinson’s disease clouds Robert’s memory, Tad sets out to retrieve his story—and in the process discovers his...

LA Asian Pacific Film Festival at JANM

2025年05月01日 - 2025年05月07日

Celebrate with Visual Communications as they present the 41st edition of the VC Film Fest (Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival) from May 1–7, 2025. The festival is the premier showcase for the best and brightest of Asian Pacific cinema and has presented over 5,000 films, videos, and digital mediaworks by Asian and Pacific Islander artists since 1983.The Democracy Center at JANM is excited to be one of the LAAPFF ...

JANM’s Discover Nikkei Project Seeks Stories About Family for Nikkei Chronicles 14

2025年05月01日

Editors please note: JANM’s Pavilion is closed for renovation; programs will continue on the JANM campus and at other locations at janm.org/OnTheGo. LOS ANGELES, CA – Discover Nikkei, a web-based project of the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) that promotes connections and understanding among the global Japanese diaspora, announces the 14th edition of its Nikkei Chronicles special series, an annual, themed ...

JANM Book Club: By the Shore of Lake Michigan with Nancy Matsumoto

2025年04月27日

Celebrate National Poetry Month with By the Shore of Lake Michigan, a collection of tanka poetry originally published in 1970 by Issei immigrants Tomiko and Ryokuyō Matsumoto. Join Nancy Matsumoto, the book’s editor and the granddaughter of Tomiko and Ryokuyō, for a four-part discussion of the book, along with translators Mariko Aratani and Kyoko Miyabe, and literary scholar Eri F. Yasuhara, dean emerita of the Colle...

Ireicho National Tour—Manzanar

2025年04月26日 - 2025年04月27日

Appointments are no longer being accepted for this venue. 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...

JANM Joins a Coalition of Museums to Unveil “On Our 250th”: A Bold National Call for Shared Dreams and Aspirations for the Nation

2025年04月25日

Editors please note: JANM’s Pavilion is closed for renovation; programs will continue on the JANM campus and at other locations at janm.org/OnTheGo. LOS ANGELES, CA – As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary in 2026, the Japanese American National Museum (JANM), in partnership with The New York Historical and Made By US, launches “On Our 250th”—a dynamic, nationwide initiative celebrating our collective ...

JANM Announces Programs for AANHPI Month

2025年04月24日

Editors please note: JANM’s Pavilion is closed for renovation; programs will continue on the JANM campus and at other locations at janm.org/OnTheGo. LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) announces its roster of programs for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Month throughout May 2025. Tickets are available at janm.org/events. Celebrate Discover Nikkei’s twentieth anniversar...

JANM Book Club: Every Peach Is a Story with Nikiko Masumoto

2025年04月19日

Celebrate Little Tokyo Earth Day with author and farmer Nikiko Masumoto as she shares about her debut picture book, Every Peach is a Story, written with her father, David Mas Masumoto, with illustrations by award-winning artist Lauren Tamaki.Every Peach Is a Story follows young Midori and her grandfather, Jiichan, as they uncover the stories of their farm’s fresh fruit and discover that every peach is a sweet reminde...