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  • JANM Hosts the Natsumatsuri Family Festival on August 12, 2023

    May 24, 2023

    LOS ANGELES, CA – Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will host the Natsumatsuri Festival on Saturday, August 12, 2023, from 11 a.m.–5 p.m. The Museum’s annual summer celebration features free cultural performances, crafts, and activities for families and kids of all ages. Admission to Natsumatsuri is free but RSVPs are requested. The festivities will include performances by TAIKOPROJECT and Yu-ki Project, so...

  • Defining Courage

    Apr 23, 2023

    TWO MORE SHOWINGS ADDED BY POPULAR DEMAND! Sunday, April 23, 2023 at 3 p.m. (HST) at The Hawaii Theatre, 1130 Bethel St, Honolulu, HI. (SOLD OUT) Sunday, April 23, 2023 at 7 p.m. (HST) at The Hawaii Theatre, 1130 Bethel St, Honolulu, HI. The most decorated US soldiers of World War II—the 100th Infantry Battalion, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, and the Military Intelligence Service—originated in Hawai‘i mo...

  • Nima Voices: Episode 12—Kristen Nemoto Jay

    Apr 11, 2023

    FREE Discover Nikkei is JANM’s community-based web project sharing stories and the experiences of Nikkei around the world. “Nima” are members of the Discover Nikkei online community. Hailing from all around the world, they each bring unique experiences and perspectives to the site’s rich archive of stories. Nima Voices is an interview series where we uplift our Nima through brief, but enlightening, int...

  • The Japanese American National Museum Supports a New Executive Order that Addresses Racial Inequity

    Feb 28, 2023

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) supports President Biden’s signing of Executive Order 13985. Known as the Executive Order on Further Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities through the Federal Government, the legislation addresses systemic barriers that hold communities of color back from prosperity. The executive order establishes a new annual process requiri...

  • Nima Voices: Episode 11—Sergio Hernández Galindo

    Feb 07, 2023

    FREE [Spanish only] Discover Nikkei is JANM’s community-based web project sharing stories and the experiences of Nikkei around the world. “Nima” are members of the Discover Nikkei online community. Hailing from all around the world, they each bring unique experiences and perspectives to the site’s rich archive of stories. Nima Voices is an interview series where we uplift our Nima through brief, but e...

  • Nikkei Uncovered III: a poetry reading

    Sep 15, 2022

    FREE Join us for our third annual virtual poetry reading with a powerful lineup of poets previously featured in Discover Nikkei’s Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column, hosted by traci kato-kiriyama (author of Navigating With(out) Instruments). This year, the poets were chosen to reflect on the theme of gathering. What does it mean to gather in a time of physical and social separation? How can poetry bring us...

  • Kelli-Ann Nakayama Named Chief Development Officer at the Japanese American National Museum

    Sep 01, 2022

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) has appointed Kelli-Ann Nakayama as the Museum’s new chief development officer. Nakayama has more than twenty years of professional nonprofit fundraising experience, with a specialty in capital campaigns and major/principal gifts. She provides leadership to the Museum's national philanthropic funding strategies, including membership, individual and ins...

  • Cold Tofu Improv, "The Soy of Sex"

    Feb 27, 2002

    It's back! The show where Cold Tofu explores love, relationships, and the opposite sex through improv.

  • Harsh Canvas: The Art and Life of Henry Sugimoto

    Jul 22, 2001

    Video Premiere Screening and Panel Discussion in New York Please see National Programs for more information

  • Told by the children: A presentation of Oral History Stories

    Jun 14, 1997

    Children will share the oral history stories and projects that they learned how to collect at the May 17 Museum workshop. Parents, visitors, and friends are encouraged to attend. Free with Museum admission.