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JANM’s Pavilion is closed for renovation and will reopen in late 2026. While the museum and store are closed, join us for programs and events on our Little Tokyo campus, throughout Southern California, and beyond. 

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  • JANM Members Only: Coffee and Community

    Dec 14, 2024

    Enjoy great coffee and be in-the-know of the big changes coming to JANM.Find out more about the major renovation of JANM’s Pavilion that will start in early 2025 and JANM on the Go, a series of programs and events that will engage communities in Los Angeles’s Little Tokyo and beyond. The morning will also include insights into the design and development of our new core exhibition and self-guided or docent-led tours o...

  • JANM Book Club: Seattle Samurai with Kelly Goto & Dee Goto

    Dec 01, 2024

    Join author Kelly Goto for a conversation around her new book, Seattle Samurai: a Cartoonist’s Perspective of the Japanese American Experience. The book pulls together threads of Samurai principles and stories of honor, resilience, and everyday life that were translated from interviews and family stories onto pen and paper. Kelly Goto will be joined by her mother, Dee Goto, whose work with oral history and preservati...

  • Go For Broke National Education Center Homecoming Celebration and Debut of the "Defining Courage" Exhibition

    May 28, 2016

    Join us for an all-day homecoming celebration at Go For Broke’s new headquarters in JANM’s Historic Building, located across the plaza from the Pavilion. Featured will be the debut of their groundbreaking new interactive exhibition, The Defining Courage Experience, which uses the experiences of Japanese American soldiers of World War II as a catalyst to discuss contemporary issues affecting Americans today. The exhib...

  • "Lt. Watada: A Matter of Conscience". Directed by Oscar Winner Freida Lee Mock

    Mar 26, 2011

    He’s called a hero, a coward; a patriot, a traitor. How does an Army officer full of promise, praised by his commanders as exemplary with unlimited potential, come to face a felony conviction, a prison term and a dishonorable discharge? “Lt. Watada” tells the story of the first commissioned military officer to refuse to deploy to Iraq and to speak out about his belief that the war is illegal and a violation of his...

  • East West Players presents a reading of IXNAY by Paul Kikuchi

    Oct 30, 2008

    Raymond Kobayashi is in the prime of his sansei life when he’s pulled up to Heaven. But when he finds out he’s been scheduled to return as a Japanese American again, Raymond flat out refuses. A comedy about an underachieving Asian who causes major havoc at the Reincarnation Station when he ixnays his Next Life.

  • DOCUMENTARY 'RESETTLEMENT TO REDRESS' TO BE SCREENED, AUTHOR OF BIO ON GOV. RALPH CARR TO SPEAK MARCH 22

    Mar 07, 2008

    The documentary, "Resettlement to Redress: Rebirth of the Japanese-American Community", will be screened and author Adam Schrager who has written a biography on former Colorado Governor Ralph Carr, the only governor to welcome Japanese Americans to his state during World War II, will speak as part of a public program set for Saturday, March 22, beginning at 2 p.m., at the Japanese American National Museum. This pr...

  • Special Screening of Films Sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program

    Jun 30, 2007

    The National Museum will host a mini festival of films funded by CCLPEP. Titles include From a Silk Cocoon, 9066 to 9/11, and Stand Up for Justice, among others. This program is made possible by the generous support of the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program.

  • "New Worlds, New Lives and Encyclopedia of Japanese Descendants in the Americas"

    Jun 02, 2002

    International Nikkei Research Project Book Signing The premiere launching of two pioneering publications, New Worlds, New Lives: Globalization and People of Japanese Descent in the Americas and from Latin America in Japan and Encyclopedia of Japanese Descendants in the Americas: An Illustrated History of the Nikkei, based on the International Nikkei Research Project, a three-year collaborative project coordinated by...

  • "From Our Side of the Fence: Growing Up in America's Concentration Camp"

    Sep 29, 2001

    This new publication contains first-person accounts of eleven former inmates who recall their memories of youth in America's concentration camps. The collection of writings is the result of autobiographical writing workshops in which participants traced their personal journey through war, giving voice to history that has been silenced. The anthology, edited by Brian Komei Dempster, was produced by the Japanese Cultur...

  • The Life and Work of George Hoshida: A Japanese American’s Journey—Gila River

    1944–1945 After Jerome Relocation Center closed at the end of June 1944, the Hoshidas were transferred to Gila River concentration camp in Arizona. George Hoshida and his family would remain at Gila River until it closed on September 28, 1945. Hoshida and his family ended up being assigned to the larger of the two camps, Butte, in Block 61. Utilizing his carpentry skills, Hoshida obtained a large fan to create ...