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  • Asian Pacific Heritage Month Kickoff

    May 04, 2023

    Free Join the Japanese American National Museum and Visual Communications to kickoff Asian Pacific Heritage Month in Little Tokyo! Celebrate our community’s abundance and joy through music, food, film, and art. Admission to all of JANM’s exhibitions will be free throughout the evening. This event is produced in collaboration with the 39th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival which will run from May 4 to May 23,...

  • FREE Fall Day!

    Oct 16, 2021

    Celebrate fall and the reopening of our neighborhood with JANM and other community organizations! On October 16, 2021, JANM will be open for FREE to the public as part of the Haunted Little Tokyo festivities. Reservations in advance are still recommended. Special spooky activities to be announced. Plus, check out our partners at East West Players as they launch This Alley is Haunted, a one day FREE immersive site-...

  • ZÓCALO—Are American Presidents Above the Law?

    Mar 06, 2019

    A Zócalo/UCLA Downtown Event at JANM’s National Center for the Preservation of Democracy Moderated by Madeleine Brand, Host, KCRW’s "Press Play" The Mueller report promises to clarify what happened in the 2016 election and its aftermath. But that document may only add to the confusion over a broader question: What does it take to fire an American president? In recent months, critics of Donald T...

  • Remember, Educate, and Inspire: Learning from Our Past to Improve Our Future

    Oct 22, 2016

    Members of Go For Broke’s exhibitions and archives staff will speak about the inspiration that they draw from working with the history of the Nisei veteran experience. Gavin Do, Assistant Director of Archives and Special Collections, will share his experiences of discovery while working with the Hiroshi Sugiyama collection. Erin Sato will speak about how her life, work, and passions all intersect through her job a...

  • "Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty’s Trek Across the Pacific" by Christine Yano, PhD

    Dec 06, 2014

    Join Christine Yano, co-curator of Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty, for a discussion of her 2013 book, which takes an in-depth look at the global economic and sociological effects of the export of Japanese “cute-cool culture.” Free for members, $20 adult non-members, $10 non-members ages 6-17. Includes admission to Hello! after discussion. Tickets Available Now Purchase Pink Globalization...

  • PROF. SAKAMOTO TO EXPLAIN CULTURAL CONFLICTS FOR JAPANESE AMERICANS AT NATIONAL MUSEUM ON JULY 28

    Jul 17, 2012

    Dr. Arthur Sakamoto, a professor of sociology at the University of Texas-Austin, will discuss the inherent conflicts between aspects of Japanese and American culture and how it has historically affected Japanese Americans in a public program set for Saturday, July 28, beginning at 2 p.m. at the Japanese American National Museum. Professor Sakamoto will lecture on "Japanese and American Aspects of the Japanese Amer...

  • IRENE NAKAGAWA NAMED NATIONAL MUSEUM 2010 TANIMURA OUTSTANDING VOLUNTEER

    Jul 16, 2011

    The Japanese American National Museum held its 2010 Volunteer Recognition Awards event in early June in its Aratani Central Hall, highlighted by the presentation of its Miki Tanimura Outstanding Volunteer Award to Irene Nakagawa. The program also included Museum staff presented several other awards to volunteers as well as recognition for years of service. The 2009 Miki Tanimura Outstanding Volunteer Award recipie...

  • JANM RECEIVES IMLS NATIONAL MEDAL, HIGHEST HONOR FOR AMERICAN MUSEUMS, LIBRARIES

    Nov 17, 2010

    The Board of Trustees of the Japanese American National Museum is proud to accept the 2010 Institute of Museum and Library Service (IMLS) National Medal, one of only 10 institutions and one of only four museums nationally to be recognized by IMLS this year. The National Medal for Museum and Library Service is America’s highest honor for museums and libraries across the country. Institutions are presented with the ...

  • 'ON PAPER WINGS' DOCUMENTARY TO BE SCREENED ON JUNE 27

    Jun 23, 2009

    A documentary that recounts a World War II Japanese military campaign that forced young Japanese women to help make balloons that were then armed with bombs and sent into the jet stream toward North America, resulting in the death of a woman and five girls in Oregon, and a Japanese American scholar who brought together some of the unwitting builders and the residents of the Oregon town, will be screened at the Japane...

  • ONE WAY OR ANOTHER: ASIAN AMERICAN ART NOW EXHIBITION CONTINUES NATIONAL TOUR

    Jan 30, 2008

    The critically acclaimed traveling exhibition, One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now, will open at the Japanese American National Museum on Sunday, February 10, 2008, as part of its national tour. Featuring 17 contemporary artists selected by a team of three curators, this exhibition, which runs through May 4, was organized by Asia Society, New York. The New York Times called the show the Asia Society's "best fo...