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  • May 2024 Member Appreciation Days

    May 10, 2024 - May 12, 2024

    Come shop at the JANM Store during Member Appreciation Days and receive a 20% discount on qualified store purchases as an appreciation of thanks for all of your support and patronage! Not a current JANM Member? Join Now Order Online! JANM will honor the 20% discount for online orders placed by current JANM Members at janmstore.com from May 10–12, 2024. To receive the special discount, enter the code MADNE...

  • Film Screening—Backstreet to the American Dream

    Dec 08, 2023

    Join Director and Producer Patricia Nazario for a conversation on the American Dream through food trucks. Nazario will be joined by Dr. Alvaro Huerta, Religion and Public Life Organizing Fellow at Harvard Divinity School and Associate Professor at Cal Poly Pomona, and June Berk, JANM Volunteer and World War II US concentration camp survivor for a lively conversation around food, race, and Los Angeles. Enjoy food f...

  • JANM Book Club: Drawing by Heart with Gwen Muranaka

    Nov 18, 2023

    Join Gwen Muranaka for a talk on cartoons, creativity, and the inspirations in her life. She will be in a conversation with Susan Hirasuna, anchor of Fox 11 News, about her new book, Drawing By Heart, which is a compilation of cartoons and cross-cultural commentary. A whimsical excursion into a world of outspoken cats and dogs, where cultures clash and Spam musubi is a staple, Muranaka’s book sheds light on the u...

  • Defining Courage at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC

    Nov 11, 2023

    One Performance only! Saturday, November 11 at 4 p.m. EST John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Washington, DC Defining Courage is a journey into the legacy of the Nisei Soldier, Americans of Japanese ancestry who served in the segregated military units of the 100th Infantry Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, Military Intelligence Service, and 522nd Field Artillery Battalion. Consid...

  • Premiere Screening—One Fighting Irishman: Wayne M. Collins and the Tule Lake Segregation Center

    Oct 28, 2023

    Join filmmaker Sharon Yamato for the premiere of her new film, One Fighting Irishman: Wayne M. Collins and the Tule Lake Segregation Center, narrated by George Takei. A conversation with George Takei, Sharon Yamato, and Wayne Merrill Collins, attorney and son of Wayne M. Collins, moderated by Brian Niiya, content director at Densho, will follow the screening. Yamato’s documentary, One Fighting Irishman, tells ...

  • JANM Celebrates the Oshogatsu Family Festival on January 7, 2024

    Oct 12, 2023

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will host the Oshogatsu Family Festival from 11 a.m.–5 p.m.on January 7, 2024. The popular annual New Year celebration will include free crafts, performances, and cultural activities for all ages to help ring in the Year of the Dragon. Tickets will be made available on janm.org/events later this fall. Admission to Oshogatsu is free, but advance tickets a...

  • JANM Announces Two New Online Exhibitions

    Sep 26, 2023

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) recently launched two new online exhibitions, Henry Sugimoto’s Artistic Evolution and Tanaka Photo Studio: Family, Tradition, Business, and Community Before World War II, on janm.org. “We are pleased to share these incredible collections online. Henry Sugimoto’s art illustrates his prolific career, in which he captured scenes ranging from the French co...

  • Defining Courage Adds Shows at Hammer Theatre October 22

    Sep 11, 2023

    LOS ANGELES, CA – Following recent sold out shows in Honolulu, Irvine, and Los Angeles, Defining Courage is bringing the show to San José’s Hammer Theatre on Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. The immersive live performance honors the most decorated US soldiers of World War II—the 100th Infantry Battalion, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, and the Military Intelligence Service. The stories of these Nise...

  • JANM Receives $564,837 from the National Parks Service JACS Grants Program

    Jun 07, 2023

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) has received two grants totalling $564,837 from the National Parks Service’s Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) Grant Program. A grant of $414,663 will conserve, reimagine, and protect the Heart Mountain barracks as the centerpiece of the Museum’s new core exhibition, the nation’s largest and most comprehensive exhibition devoted to the Japanes...

  • Author Discussion—"Footprints in My Rearview Mirror: An Autobiography and Christian Testimony of George Oiye" by George Oiye

    Oct 19, 2003

    Join author George Oiye as he reads selected passages from his autobiographical work, Footsteps in My Rearview Mirror. Oiye recounts key moments of his life and has included photos from an album documenting his service with the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion during World War II (currently on display in Object Lessons and featured on the National Museum's website). Oiye also describes how these pivotal moments shap...