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  • Special Screening: “The Dragon Painter” featuring Sessue Hayakawa

    Mar 01, 2025

    Join the Little Tokyo Historical Society and the Japanese American National Museum for a special screening of the 1919 silent film, The Dragon Painter, with live music composed and performed by Goh Nakamura. The program will include remarks by Dr. Daisuke Miyao, a professor of Japanese films at the University of California San Diego.Written by film star Sessue Hayakawa, The Dragon Painter, stars Hayakawa as Tasu, the...

  • Ireichō National Tour Launch in Washington, DC

    Feb 18, 2025 - Feb 21, 2025

    The national tour of the Ireichō will launch in Washington DC, where Executive Order 9066 that led to the mass incarceration of the Japanese American community on the Pacific Coast was issued, presented in conjunction with the National Archives and Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History for Day of Remembrance.Tuesday, February 18National Archives 2025 Day of Remembrance program including panel discussion a...

  • Democracy Center and entertwine Present The Grand Event on July 28, 2024

    Jul 16, 2024

    PSAWHAT:Enjoy performances of the top ten short plays from the 2024 APIDA 24-Hour Playwriting Contest, which amplifies the voices of diverse and underrepresented Asian American, Pacific Islander, and Desi American writers. WHEN: Sunday, July 28, 2024 from 2 p.m.–4 p.m. PDTWHERE:Tateuchi Democracy ForumJapanese American National Museum100 North Central AvenueLos Angeles, CA 90012RSVP:RSVP at janm.org/events.###About t...

  • Democracy Center Hosts the Art of Practicing Democracy Podcast on October 21, 2023

    Sep 29, 2023

    PSA WHAT: This second of four conversations about Empathy and Democracy seeks to understand how we can PAUSE in order to better navigate our lives—and our collective governance—with greater intention, compassion, and imagination. The conversation will be hosted by James E. Herr, director of the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy (Democracy Center). WHEN: October 21, 2023 from 4 p.m.– 6:30 p.m. ...

  • Tatau at Utah Museum of Fine Arts (Salt Lake City, UT)

    Aug 12, 2023 - Dec 30, 2023

    TRAVELING EXHIBITION Utah Museum of Fine Arts Salt Lake City, UT Web: umfa.utah.edu/tatau Phone: 801.581.7332 Tatau: Marks of Polynesia explores the beauty of Samoan tattoos as well as the key role they play in the preservation and propagation of Samoan culture. Through photographs taken in the studio and on location in Samoa and elsewhere, Tatau showcases the work of traditional Samoan tattoo mas...

  • Discover Nikkei Celebrates 12th Edition of Nikkei Chronicles with Call for Coming of Age Stories

    Jul 05, 2023

    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 12th edition of its Nikkei Chronicles special series, an annual, themed open call for writings. This year’s theme, Growing Up Nikkei: Connecting with Our Heritage, calls for stories, essays, and vignettes about the ways ...

  • 2022 Oshogatsu Family Festival—Year of the Tiger

    Jan 02, 2022

    EVENT UPDATE As of December 27, 2021 With the rapidly increasing COVID-19 infection rates in Los Angeles County due to the Omicron variant, the Japanese American National Museum will temporarily close to the public effective immediately. The safety of our community is of paramount importance to us, as is our obligation as a public institution to do our part to support efforts to inhibit the spread of the COVI...

  • “REFLECTIONS/REFRACTIONS” LITERARY SHOW SET FOR JANM

    Aug 29, 2019

    Los Angeles, CA—In a special program organized by Visual Communications—the nation’s premier Asian Pacific American media arts organization—and the Japanese American National Museum, ten locally based literary artists will perform original works inspired by media arts works featured in the ongoing VC Founders’ photographic exhibition, At First Light: The Dawning of Asian Pacific America on Thursday, September 19, in ...

  • Toyo Miyatake Studios Donates Photos Taken For Rafu Shimpo To Japanese American National Museum

    Aug 01, 1996

    The Japanese American National Museum announced that Toyo Miyatake Studios, one of the nation’s oldest family-run Japanese American photography studios, has recently donated a collection of photographs that it took for The Rafu Shimpo, the largest Japanese-English publication in the continental United States, to the Museum for identification and preservation. Toyo Miyatake Studios was often called upon by the ...

  • Desire For Magic

    Artist Patrick Nagatani When asked how he would describe himself, Sansei artist Patrick Nagatani immediately responds that he considers himself to be, first and foremost, a storyteller. Unlike the traditional photographer who is considered an objective recorder of reality, Nagatani carefully sets the stage for his photographs, collages, and multimedia pieces much like a movie director arranges a set and actor...