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  • Members Only Conversation: New Year’s Food!

    Jan 02, 2022

    FREE for members Get an exclusive, virtual behind the scenes tour of a Little Tokyo restaurant during the busiest holiday of the year! Only for members! More details to come. RSVPs are required using the link below or by contacting memberevents@janm.org or 213.830.5646 by Tuesday, December 28. RSVP NOW This event is presented in conjunction with the 2022 Oshogatsu Festival.

  • Members Only Meet-and-Greet with Susan H. Kamei

    Sep 25, 2021

    FREE for JANM & JACL Members All members are invited to this exclusive virtual conversation with the author and scholar behind When Can We Go Back to America?: Voices of Japanese American Incarceration during WWII, Susan H. Kamei. The daughter and granddaughter of incarcerees, Susan H. Kamei volunteered in the redress campaign and served as National Deputy Legal Counsel for the JACL Legislative Education Commit...

  • Building & Bridging (Part II): Building Relationships into the Future

    Feb 12, 2021

    FREE Japanese corporations and Japanese American communities have a long and complex history that weaves together stories of immigration, industrial expansion, and the building of neighborhoods, businesses, and banks. With a focus on Los Angeles, this two part program brings together speakers that represent a broad spectrum of Japanese corporations in the U.S. and Japanese American communities to discuss ...

  • JANM Digital Film Festival: Madame Fujima Kansuma Q&A

    Jun 26, 2020

    FREE Madame Fujima Kansuma shares the life of the celebrated Japanese American kabuki dancer and teacher with a career beginning in the early 1940s and spanning decades. Join filmmaker Yuka Murakami for a discussion around the legacy of Madame Kansuma with Madame Kansuma’s daughter, Miyako Tachibana, and longtime student, June Berk, who were both featured in the film produced for a celebration of Kansuma’s ...

  • JANM RECEIVES TWO JAPANESE AMERICAN CONFINEMENT SITES GRANTS

    May 01, 2020

    Los Angeles, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) has received over $530,000 in grants from the Department of Interior, National Park Service (NPS) through the Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) grant program. The funds will support two projects - the development of an experiential exhibition that will explore the important role that religious institutions and individuals played for Japanese Amer...

  • JANM’S ANNUAL OSHOGATSU FAMILY FESTIVAL SET FOR JANUARY 5, 2020

    Dec 17, 2019

    Los Angeles, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM), will hold its annual Oshogatsu Family Festival on Sunday, January 5, 2020, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The New Year celebration will include free crafts, performances, and cultural activities for all ages to help ring in the Year of the Rat. New Year’s, or Oshogatsu, is one of Japan’s longest and most important holidays. Although Oshogatsu originally refer...

  • Tea & Letter Writing: gathering in relaxation, expression & conversation

    Dec 05, 2019

    FREE Do you miss the art of letter writing? Would you like the opportunity to write a letter to the future of Little Tokyo or to a future stakeholder of this community? Gather with us in a relaxed atmosphere to share tea and conversation and write letters—with plenty of prompts provided by traci kato-kiriyama, former Little Tokyo +LAB Artist-in-Residence at JANM. Come write about your hopes and dreams for...

  • The Grassroots Redress Movement: A Conversation with Activists, Then and Now

    Oct 20, 2019

    FREE Members of Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress (NCRR) will discuss the many contributions needed to secure the passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 which provided a government apology and redress to Japanese Americans who were forced to leave their homes and businesses during World War II. NCRR compiled accounts of the redress campaign into a recently published book, The Grassroots Struggle for Japanese A...

  • At First Site

    Aug 15, 2019

    FREE 6 p.m.: Reception 7 p.m.: Program See the historic heart of Little Tokyo—First Street North—through the eyes of artists and activists. Join us for a performance and the screening of two short documentaries about Little Tokyo’s resilient history of fighting displacement and why many call it home, including the West Coast premiere screening of Ken Honjo and Kuniharu Yoshida’s First Street North and Visual C...

  • Members Only Meet-and-Greet with Velina Hasu Houston

    Dec 15, 2018

    All members are invited to an exclusive pre-event reception with Velina Hasu Houston, playwright of Little Women (A Multicultural Transposition), prior to the performance of her play at 5 p.m. Houston is a distinguished professor, director of MFA dramatic writing, head of undergraduate playwriting, associate dean of faculty, and resident playwright at the USC School of Dramatic Arts. Space is limited. RS...