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  • Celebrating Little Tokyo at 140 Years

    Aug 10, 2024 - Jan 05, 2025

    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...

  • The Crimson Kimono at the Academy Museum

    Jul 21, 2024

    JANM is a Community Partner for the Academy Museum’s screening of the 1959 film The Crimson Kimono. JANM’s Chief Curator Karen Ishizuka is introducing the film. About the FilmJames Shigeta and Glenn Corbett depict two Los Angeles detectives who fall in love with the same woman, Christine (Victoria Shaw), in Samuel Fuller’s 1959 noir The Crimson Kimono. Fuller’s groundbreaking feature stimulates more than a sensationa...

  • Defining Courage at the Neuhaus Theatre at the Alley, Houston, TX

    May 20, 2024

    ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY! Monday, May 20, 2024 • 6:30 p.m. Neuhaus Theatre at the Alley Houston, TX Defining Courage is a gripping and emotional journey into the legacy of Nisei veterans, a segregated combat team of Japanese American soldiers that fought during World War II and that remains the most highly decorated unit in US Army history. Drawing upon decades of filmmaking and investigative journa...

  • Cruising J-Town Community Scanning Event

    May 18, 2024

    Bring your photographs and documents related to Japanese American car culture for scanning as part of the research behind JANM’s summer/fall 2025 exhibition, Cruising J-Town: Nikkei Car Culture in Southern California. When registering, please select your preferred time slot. We are especially looking for items related to: Drag racing culture of the 1950s–’70s The Nisei Week Cruise in the 1970s and ’80s I...

  • JANM to Host Wakayama Sister Museum Ceremony on May 22

    May 15, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will host a signing ceremony on May 22, 2024 to commemorate its new sister museum affiliation with the Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama (MOMAW). MOMAW is one of Japan’s leading art museums and is the fifth oldest modern art museum in Japan. MOMAW has continuously conducted research on prewar Japanese artists from Wakayama who settled in the US and has b...

  • J. T. Sata: Immigrant Modernist

    Mar 15, 2024 - Sep 15, 2024

    James Tadanao Sata (1896–1975) created some of the most adventurous photographs made in America in the 1920s and ’30s. Abstract spheres and triangles, complex arrangements of figures and shadows, and spaces rich with deep and delicate tones emphasized geometric forms and conveyed newness, modernity, and irony.Sata came to the United States in 1918. Despite his good education and the elevated social status of his samu...

  • "A Principled Stand: The Story of Hirabayashi v. United States" by Gordon K. Hirabayashi with James A. Hirabayashi and Lane Ryo Hirabayashi

    Sep 21, 2013

    In 1942, University of Washington student Gordon Hirabayashi defied the curfew and mass removal of Japanese Americans on the West Coast, and was subsequently convicted and imprisoned. In A Principled Stand, Gordon's brother James and nephew Lane have brought together his prison diaries and wartime correspondence to tell the story of Hirabayashi v. United States. A Principled Stand tells Gordon's story in his own word...

  • Closing of the Henry Fukuhara Manzanar Watercolor Workshop display in the National Museum Pavilion

    Aug 18, 2002

    Closing of the Henry Fukuhara Manzanar Watercolor Workshop display in the National Museum Pavilion

  • Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Tsumami Zaiku (traditional Japanese hair ornaments made of silk)

    Sep 22, 2001

    Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Tsumami Zaiku (traditional Japanese hair ornaments made of silk)

  • Don’t Fence Me In: Coming of Age in America’s Concentration Camps—Audio Tour

    Hear from Emily Anderson, JANM’s curator for Don’t Fence Me In, and incarcerees from the War Relocation Authority camps as they share how Japanese American youth asserted their place as young Americans confronting the injustice of imprisonment in concentration camps. From joining scout troops to sports, social dancing to music, patriotism and life after camp, discover how these Americans used their resilience and...