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  • LA Asian Pacific Film Festival at JANM

    May 01, 2025 - May 07, 2025

    Celebrate with Visual Communications as they present the 41st edition of the VC Film Fest (Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival) from May 1–7, 2025. The festival is the premier showcase for the best and brightest of Asian Pacific cinema and has presented over 5,000 films, videos, and digital mediaworks by Asian and Pacific Islander artists since 1983.The Democracy Center at JANM is excited to be one of the LAAPFF ...

  • JANM Mourns the Passing of Yoshihiro Uchida

    Jul 05, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) mourns the passing of Yoshihiro Uchida, a former chair of the JANM Board of Trustees, a successful San José businessman, and the judo coach at San José State University. Born in 1920 he grew up on his family’s strawberry and tomato farm in Garden Grove, California, and was introduced to judo when he was ten years old. After graduating from Garden Grove Hi...

  • JANM Mourns the Passing of Gary Y. Okihiro

    May 29, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) mourns the passing of renowned author and scholar, Gary Y. Okihiro. He was a visiting professor of American studies at Yale University, professor emeritus of international and public affairs at Columbia University, and founding director of Columbia’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race. “Okihiro’s work was instrumental to and deeply valued by J...

  • JANM Welcomes New Board Members

    Feb 14, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – In 2023, the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) added nineteen new trustees, governors, and honorary members to its board. “Our board members bring a multitude of international experiences to JANM’s leadership. We are grateful for their devotion to strengthening the Museum for years to come. I look forward to expanding the Museum’s work and mission with them to create a just future for all,...

  • 2023 Benefit & Auction

    Thank you to everyone who joined us in person or via live-stream for JANM’s 2023 Benefit & Auction! On behalf of the Board, staff, and volunteers, thank you to our sponsors and to everyone who helped to make our hybrid fundraiser such a success. Your generous support and faith in our mission means so much to us. Thank you for lifting us up with your generosity and unwavering commitment to JANM.

  • A Taste of Home: Recipes for Celebration

    Dec 13, 2020

    FREE For many holidays, both distinctly “American” and traditionally Japanese, Japanese American families share meals specifically prepared for the occasion. From oshogatsu (New Years Day) to Christmas, these flavors are closely tied to memories, festivities, and cultural practices. Even while incarcerated during WWII, Japanese Americans held on to their traditions and celebrations, highlighting their persever...

  • Tales of Little Tokyo

    Jan 11, 2020

    Two performances: 2 p.m.–3:30 p.m. 7 p.m.–8:30 p.m. FREE! Tales of Little Tokyo is a live theatrical reading of memories drawn from over 50 interviews with Los Angeles residents about their relationship to the oldest and largest Japanese American community in the United States. Today this 135+ year old landmark of Japanese American history faces serious threats to its existence as the relentle...

  • FREE SCREENING OF "CRIMSON KIMONO," CLASSIC FILM NOIR MOVIE FILMED IN LITTLE TOKYO, SET FOR JANM ON OCT. 17 AS PART OF HAUNTED LITTLE TOKYO FILM FESTIVAL

    Oct 01, 2019

    Los Angeles, CA A free outdoor screening of the classic Sam Fuller movie, The Crimson Kimono (1959), will be held in the plaza of the Japanese American National Museum on Thursday, October 17, beginning at 8 p.m. This event is part of the annual Haunted Little Tokyo Film Festival and is organized in partnership with Visual Communications and JANM. The Crimson Kimono is a groundbreaking film on several levels. F...

  • JANM’S FREE OSHOGATSU FAMILY FESTIVAL WELCOMES THE YEAR OF THE BOAR

    Dec 11, 2018

    Los Angeles, CA—The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will present its annual Oshogatsu Family Festival on Sunday, January 6, 2019, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission to the new year celebration featuring Japanese and Japanese American performances, crafts, and activities is free and all ages are welcome to help ring in the Year of the Boar. Highlights of the day will include two mochitsuki (rice pounding) de...

  • Smithsonian’s “Japan After Perry” Woodblock Prints Exhibition Provides Japan’s 1st Impressions Of West

    Dec 29, 2004

    A collection of Japanese woodblock prints created in the aftermath of Commodore Matthew C. Perry’s historic visits to Japan in the 1850s provides a remarkable look at the Japanese’s first impressions of Westerners in the traveling exhibition Japan After Perry: Views of Yokohama and Meiji Japan, organized by the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, and set to open at the Japanese American National Museu...