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  • Ebb and Flow: Community Mental Health Conference

    Oct 12, 2024

    Gather in a welcoming space for the Asian American community to address, examine, and understand mental health in its various forms with Ebb and Flow, Little Tokyo Service Center’s second annual mental health conference in partnership with JANM. Conference plenaries will be interspersed with workshops and small group discussions focused on specific mental health topics. There are sessions for a variety of ages and ex...

  • Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement Wins Best Documentary at CAAMFest

    May 16, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) announces that Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement, the new documentary by the Museum’s Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center (MAC), won Best Documentary at CAAMFest, the world’s largest showcase for new Asian American and Asian film, food, and music programs. “We couldn’t be more thrilled for JANM’s Watase Media Arts Center team. Our congratulations to Ta...

  • JANM Congratulates June Kuramoto, 2024 NEA National Heritage Fellow

    Mar 18, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) applauds June Kuramoto who is a recipient of the 2024 NEA National Heritage Fellow. Since 1982, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has presented this award—the nation’s highest honor in the folk and traditional arts—to recognize individuals whose dedication and artistry contribute to the growth and preservation of diverse cultural traditions in the...

  • "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet " by Jamie Ford

    Jan 29, 2011

    In the opening pages of Jamie Ford’s stunning debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Henry Lee comes upon a crowd gathered outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle’s Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made an incredible discovery: the belongings of Japanese families, left when they were rounded up and sent to concentration camps during World War II. As...

  • Fighting For Democracy at UTSA’s Institute of Texan Cultures (San Antonio, TX)

    Jul 29, 2008 - Jan 18, 2009

    TRAVELING EXHIBITION Through the diverse perspectives of seven ordinary citizens whose lives and communities were forever changed by World War II, this exhibition asks visitors to think critically about freedom, history, and, ultimately, the ongoing struggle to live democratically in a diverse America. Fighting For Democracy: Who is the “We” in “We, the People”? is presented by the National Center for the Prese...

  • Fresh Words & Actions: Cold Tofu's The Soy of Sex

    Feb 26, 2004

    Is there really a weaker sex? Why can't people commit to relationships? Why is dating and finding love so difficult? Join us as Cold Tofu searches for the answers to these questions and more at The Soy of Sex. It's the show where Cold Tofu explores love, relationships, and the opposite sex through improvisation. Cold Tofu is dedicated to promoting diverse images of Asian Pacific Americans through comedy and to dev...

  • Out of Asia: Art and Culture in pre-World War II Los Angeles

    Apr 06, 2002

    This symposium examines the fertile period of Los Angeles arts and culture between World Wars I and II and considers how Asia—defined very broadly—impacted, influenced, and shaped the cultural consciousness of Los Angeles. Join a distinguished group of speakers for a discussion moderated by Professor Valerie Matsumoto of the UCLA Department of History. Bill Estrada, curator of El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monu...

  • World War II Incarceration Of Japanese Americans Featured In Ellis Island Exhibit

    Mar 25, 1998

    The award-winning exhibition, America’s Concentration Camps: Remembering the Japanese American Experience, which drew record crowds to the Japanese American National Museum in 1994 and 1995, is a featured exhibit at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum in New York City beginning Friday, April 3 and running through January 5, 1998. The exhibition details the World War II experiences of 120,000 Americans of Japan...

  • hapa.me – 15 years of the hapa project—Events

    Public programs presented at the Japanese American National Museum in conjunction with the hapa.me exhibition. To see a complete listing of JANM’s upcoming programs, check out our Events Calendar.

  • Year of the Labbit Custom Show - Events

    Programs are free for museum members and included with admission for visitors, unless otherwise noted. To see a complete listing of JANM’s upcoming programs, check out our Events Calendar.