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  • Exhibition Opening for Cruising J-Town

    Jul 31, 2025

    Celebrate Cruising J-Town: Behind the Wheel of the Nikkei Community with an opening reception hosted by the ArtCenter College of Design!See the exhibition’s five classic cars: George Nakamura’s 1940s “Meteor” hot rod; Brian Omatsu’s custom 1951 Mercury coupe known as the “Purple Reign”; a 1956 Ford F100 pickup truck owned by Kirk Shimazu; Tod Kaneko’s 1973 Datsun 510, one of the models that launched the import car cr...

  • JANM Decries Creation of New US Concentration Camps and Surge in Mass Incarceration

    Jul 03, 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) strongly denounces the immigration detention facility dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” in Florida, the nearly $150 billion budget for national defense and deportations that is included in H.R. 1, and the Administr...

  • Pavilion Groundbreaking Ceremony Launches Start of Construction on Friday, July 11, 2025

    Jun 30, 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. Media AdvisoryWHAT: JANM is launching an exciting new chapter with a groundbreaking ceremony that marks the start of construction for the Museum’s renovation and new core exhibition, In the Future We Call Now: Realities of Racism, Dreams of Democracy. Commemorate this...

  • JANM Mourns the Passing of Legendary Filmmaker Robert A. Nakamura

    Jun 23, 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 Robert A. Nakamura. Known to generations of artists as “the Godfather of Asian American media,” he was a legendary photographer, filmmaker, and activist who was on the original advisory ...

  • Democracy Center Announces the 2025 Irene Yamamoto Arts Writers Fellows

    Jun 11, 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 Daniel K. Inouye National Center for the Preservation of Democracy (Democracy Center) has awarded the third annual Irene Yamamoto Arts Writers Fellowship to Heven Haile and Joyce Kwon, and the Jurors’ Award for Special Recognition to Syd Westley. A ...

  • JANM Announces New Board Members

    Jun 06, 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) is pleased to welcome new board members to its Board of Governors and Honorary Board. Diana Abouali, Anthea M. Hartig, Hiroshi Kawano, Erika Moritsugu, and Jay Shiba joined the Board of Governors. US Represen...

  • JANM and the Democracy Center Host June 5 Town Hall with California Attorney General Rob Bonta

    May 29, 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)’s Daniel K. Inouye National Center for the Preservation of Democracy (Democracy Center) will host Our Fragile Democracy: The Role of State Attorneys General in Upholding the Law in Times of Crisis from 2 p.m...

  • JANM Book Club: By the Shore of Lake Michigan with Nancy Matsumoto

    Apr 27, 2025

    Celebrate National Poetry Month with By the Shore of Lake Michigan, a collection of tanka poetry originally published in 1970 by Issei immigrants Tomiko and Ryokuyō Matsumoto. Join Nancy Matsumoto, the book’s editor and the granddaughter of Tomiko and Ryokuyō, for a four-part discussion of the book, along with translators Mariko Aratani and Kyoko Miyabe, and literary scholar Eri F. Yasuhara, dean emerita of the Colle...

  • 「ディスカバー・ニッケイ」フェス：日系グローバル・コミュニティー20周年記念

    Feb 08, 2025

    ディスカバー・ニッケイは、サイト開設20周年を記念して、ニッケイ人の家族史をテーマにした終日イベントを開催します。「ディスカバー・ニッケイ」は、ニッケイ人のアイデンティティや文化、歴史を紹介する全米日系人博物館のグローバル＆コミュニティ・プロジェクトです。このイベントは、1年間にわたる20周年記念イベントの幕開けとなります。コミュニティフェア（12 p.m.–3 p.m.）：ニッケイ団体インフォブース、クラフト、抽選会、スタンプラリー（無料、事前登録を推奨しています）家族史ワークショップ（12 p.m.–3 p.m.）： ジャーナリング、ビデオライフヒストリーインタビュー、ニッケイ家系図入門、思い出の品々の保存、詩のワークショップ、シニアの思い出の記録ニッケイ家族史・パネルディスカッション（3:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m.）： 【モデレーター】ナオミ・ヒラハラ；【パネリスト】ミチ・ホンマ（米国）、アンドリュー・ハセガワ（...

  • Allen Say’s Journey

    Jul 28, 2000 - Feb 11, 2001

    Allen Say’s Journey: The Art and Words of a Children’s Book Author is the first retrospective exhibition of the art of Allen Say, award-winning children’s book author and illustrator. His drawings, watercolor paintings, and prose explore themes of longing, belonging, and the meaning of “home.” Through the internal conflicts of his characters and their search for identity and self-discovery, one can glimpse into Say’s...