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  • JANM Mourns the Passing of Dr. Keith Terasaki

    Jan 22, 2025

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) mourns the passing of Dr. Keith Terasaki, a longtime supporter of JANM and many other educational and cultural institutions. A graduate of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Dr. Terasaki trained at the Los Angeles County Hospital and Stanford University. His distinguished career in medicine included work as an Interventional Radiologist at the K...

  • JANM Mourns the Passing of Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

    Jan 21, 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) mourns the passing of Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, coauthor of Farewell to Manzanar. Born in Inglewood, California, on September 26, 1934, she grew up in Santa Monica. Her mother cared for their family of ten ch...

  • 2025 Oshogatsu Family Festival—Year of the Snake

    Jan 05, 2025

    FREE ALL DAYJoin us at the Japanese American National Museum as we welcome the Year of the Snake with cultural performances, crafts, and activities for families and kids of all ages!Traditional mochitsuki (Japanese rice pounding ritual) performance by Kodama Taiko.Candy sculpture demonstrations by Shan Ichiyanagi (Shan the Candyman)Interactive storytimesSouvenir photos by cre8tive outletsFun Oshogatsu and Year of the...

  • JANM Announces Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Roundtable in Japan on November 2, 2024

    Oct 25, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will host a roundtable discussion on emerging trends in diversity, equity, and inclusion in Japan and an information session on applying to the 2025 Watanabe Democracy Fellowship. The program will be at the Japan Foundation in Tokyo, Japan, on Saturday, November 2, 2024 at 2:30 p.m. It is free and open to the public, and RSVP is recommended at janm.org/de...

  • 2024 Benefit & Online Auction

    Embark on a journey with us on Saturday, April 6 at the Vibiana in Los Angeles for Illuminating Paths, JANM’s annual signature event that will weave poignant lessons of our past with vibrant promises of our future.

  • Democracy Center Announces the Second Annual Irene Yamamoto Arts Writers Fellowship for Emerging Arts Writers of Color

    Jan 19, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Daniel K. Inouye National Center for the Preservation of Democracy (Democracy Center) at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) announces the second annual Irene Yamamoto Arts Writers Fellowship (Yamamoto Fellowship) with a focus on theater, dance, and performance art. The fellowship encourages emerging arts writers of color to write about works from their own cultural and political perspe...

  • 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...

  • 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...