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  • June Kuramoto: The Arigato Event

    Oct 19, 2024

    In Japanese, the saying “Ichigo Ichie” translates to “Once chance, one opportunity.” Join us in expressing gratitude to the noted koto musician, June Kuramoto, in an Arigato event celebrating her legacy and community. This event gives Kuramoto the chance to thank her friends and family for their support and, in return, they can thank her for her years as a musician who has defined Japanese American arts and culture.K...

  • Our Promise Launch Celebration

    Aug 05, 2023

    The Japanese American National Museum is amplifying its powerful voice. Our campus and programs showcase how Japanese Americans’ lives, experiences, and culture intersect and resonate with the experiences of marginalized communities in the United States. Our story is an American story. Our founders promised that the Museum would stand as a beacon of civil rights to ensure that what happened to Japanese Americans i...

  • Premiere Screening and Discussion—“Giant Robot: Asian Pop Culture and Beyond” (ARTBOUND)

    Oct 21, 2022

    FREE Join us for the premiere of the new episode of KCET’s award-winning arts and culture series ARTBOUND focused around the influence of Asian American pop culture magazine Giant Robot. A panel discussion with Eric Nakamura, Martin Wong, Renee Tajima-Peña, Dylan Robertson, and James Jean, moderated by Clement Hanami, will follow the screening. Tickets to this program are sold out.

  • JANM 30th Anniversary Digital Film Festival—Barbara Kawakami: A Textured Life

    Jul 29, 2022

    FREE The 2010 JANM exhibition, Textured Lives: Japanese Immigrant Clothing from the Plantations of Hawai`i, was born from a gift by Barbara Kawakami to JANM’s permanent collection of beautiful plantation-era clothing. Kawakami started her formal studies of these textiles and clothing at the age of 53. Now at 100, she is still a noted author, historian, and storyteller who has dedicated much of her life to ...

  • Screening and Q&A—Who Killed Vincent Chin?

    Jul 14, 2022

    FREE Join us for a special anniversary screening of the groundbreaking 1988 Academy Award®-nominated documentary and POV legacy title, Who Killed Vincent Chin? The film relentlessly probes the 1982 murder of Chinese American Vincent Chin while chronicling Helen Zia and a generation of Asian American activists who came together to demand justice. A panel discussion about the implications of Chin’s murder on current...

  • The Japanese American National Museum Debuts the Miné Okubo Collection on Google Arts & Culture

    May 17, 2022

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) is proud to announce the launch of the Museum’s Google Arts & Culture web page, which features the Miné Okubo Collection at JANM, an online exhibition of the same name, and the video, UNBOXED: Miné Okubo’s Masterpiece: The Art of Citizen 13660, from JANM’s UNBOXED series. The online exhibition is included in Google Arts & Culture’s Asian Pacific American ...

  • 38th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival

    May 10, 2022 - May 13, 2022

    The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (LAAPFF), presented annually by Visual Communications (VC), Southern California’s leading showcase for new Asian Pacific American and Asian international cinema, announced today the program for the 38th edition of the festival. The festival returns May 5–13 in Los Angeles and will feature an exciting lineup of in-person programming, along with virtual programming for our au...

  • Contested Histories at Noguchi Museum (Long Island City, NY)

    Apr 08, 2022 - Apr 10, 2022

    TRAVELING DISPLAYThe Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden MuseumLong Island City, NYFor more information and for advance tickets, visit noguchi.org. Allen Hendershott Eaton’s historic 1952 book, Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps, explored art and craft objects created by persons of Japanese descent while wrongfully incarcerated in the World War II American concentration c...

  • Virtual Author Discussion—Art, Identity, and Legacy with Brian Komei Dempster and Brynn Saito

    Mar 19, 2022

    $5 General, FREE for Members Join poets Brian Komei Dempster and Brynn Saito in a dynamic virtual conversation and reading about the legacy of Japanese American wartime imprisonment and how it informs the present. Their dialogue will explore these vital, timely themes: What does it mean to inherit the saga of incarceration? How do we process trauma and respond to racism, anti-Asian sentiment, and violence? In ...

  • POSTPONED: Conversation on Beyond the Betrayal with Arthur Hansen & Lawson Inada

    Jan 22, 2022

    EVENT UPDATE Due to the rapidly increasing COVID-19 infection rates in Los Angeles County due to the Omicron variant, this program is postponed until further notice. All those who have already RSVPed will be contacted when a new date is set. 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 ...