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  • JANM Decries Creation of New US Concentration Camps and Surge in Mass Incarceration

    Jul 03, 2025

    Editors please note: JANM’s Pavilion is closed for renovation; programs will continue on the JANM campus and at other locations at janm.org/OnTheGo. LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) strongly denounces the immigration detention facility dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” in Florida, the nearly $150 billion budget for national defense and deportations that is included in H.R. 1, and the Administr...

  • Pavilion Groundbreaking Ceremony Launches Start of Construction on Friday, July 11, 2025

    Jun 30, 2025

    Editors please note: JANM’s Pavilion is closed for renovation; programs will continue on the JANM campus and at other locations at janm.org/OnTheGo. Media AdvisoryWHAT: JANM is launching an exciting new chapter with a groundbreaking ceremony that marks the start of construction for the Museum’s renovation and new core exhibition, In the Future We Call Now: Realities of Racism, Dreams of Democracy. Commemorate this...

  • 2025 Irene Yamamoto Arts Writers Fellowship Applications Now Open

    Feb 06, 2025

    Emerging music critics and journalists of color are encouraged to apply. Applications are open through March 17, 2025LOS ANGELES, CA – The Daniel K. Inouye National Center for the Preservation of Democracy (Democracy Center) and Critical Minded announce the third annual Irene Yamamoto Arts Writers Fellowship (Yamamoto Fellowship) with a focus on music criticism. The Yamamoto Fellowship will provide two emerging arts ...

  • Benkyodo: The Last Manju Shop in J-Town at the DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon

    Mar 10, 2024

    Benkyodo: The Last Manju Shop in J-Town will be screening at the DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon, which will be held in-person March 8–10; virtually March 11–17. This short documentary film is being presented as part of the Shorts Program: Family. Food. Love. ABOUT THE FILM Ricky and Bobby Okamura, the current owners of Benkyodo mochi shop, make a difficult decision to close their family ...

  • JANM Relaunches the Daniel K. Inouye National Center for the Preservation of Democracy

    Dec 01, 2023

    LOS ANGELES, CA – Today the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) relaunched the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy as the Daniel K. Inouye National Center for the Preservation of Democracy (Democracy Center). A program of JANM, the revitalized Democracy Center builds on the original vision of Senator Daniel K. Inouye. A place for education and participation, the Democracy Center examines issues ...

  • 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...

  • JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNOUNCES FOUR NEW BOARD MEMBERS

    Jul 15, 2021

    LOS ANGELES - The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) has announced four new members to its Board of Trustees. “Each of these new board members brings invaluable skills and foresight to the governance and future of JANM,” said Secretary Norman Y. Mineta. “We are grateful for their activism and dedication to the mission of the Museum.” Taiji Terasaki has been named a Trustee; and Gregory G. Nakahira, Lisa S...

  • Isamu Noguchi: Sculpture and the Elusive Sense of Belonging

    Feb 28, 2004

    Bert Winther-Tamaki will explore the specific sculptural initiatives at various points along Isamu Noguchi’s career—such as his portrait busts of New Yorkers in the 1920s, Japanese clay work in the 1950s, design of plazas for postwar American cities, and the rock abstractions of his late years—and look at them as a laboratory for mediating personal and cultural affiliations that were alternatively inspired and inhibi...

  • MOVING PICTURES: Toyo Miyatake

    Nov 24, 2002

    Little Tokyo's favorite son and legendary photographer Toyo Miyatake is the focus of this special program featuring the award-winning documentary, Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray, produced by the National Museum's Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center, a screening of never-before-seen home movies taken by Miyatake and the opening of a new exhibit of Miyatake vintage prints. 2:00 pm: Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shad...