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  • JANM Mourns the Passing of Kanji Sahara

    Mar 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) mourns the passing of Kanji Sahara, a JANM Charter Member and docent, a beloved community member, and visionary in the Japanese American community.Born in Hiroshima, he grew up in Los Angeles with his parents...

  • JANM’s Statement on the 2025 Day of Remembrance

    Feb 19, 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 – Today the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) commemorates the Day of Remembrance—a day that marks a historic moment of healing and celebrates the resilience of the Japanese American community. It serves as a powerful reminder of the consequences o...

  • 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...

  • JANM ORGANIZES 2021 YEAR OF THE OX ACTIVITIES, EVENTS WITH ITS ‘OSHOGATSU VIRTUAL FAMILY FESTIVAL’ FROM JAN. 3 TO 8

    Dec 28, 2020

    Los Angeles, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will celebrate the New Year with its “Oshogatsu Virtual Family Festival: 2021 Year of the Ox” featuring interactive, offline festivities for all ages including multi-lingual story times, play performances and a JANM membership raffle for participants beginning on Sunday, January 3, 2021 and running through Friday, January 8, 2021. This virtual festival is...

  • 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...

  • 私たちの約束ー伝える

    一般運営資金の調達により、斬新な方法で物語を伝え、スマート技術を駆使して新しい体験を生み出し、当館のリソースを全米に共有し、学習の機会を提供する当館の力を強化します（3,250万ドル）。 使途を制限しない運営資金は、文字通り、博物館の明かりを灯し続けるために必要なものです。当館が日々の運営を続け、リノベーションの間も、プログラムや一般の方々が必要とする資料を提供し続けていけるのは、これらの資金のおかげです。博物館の活動を直接的に支えてくれるこの資金によって、私たちの約束を現実のものとし、より公正な未来のために情報を届け、民主主義の生き生きとした文化を作るための活動を続けていけます。 JANMのミッションの実現において、教育は私たちの活動の基盤です。博物館訪問の計り知れないインパクトや教室の外での学びの重要性は繰り返すまでもありません。日系アメリカ人の経験は、アメリカ憲法に記された「私たち人民は」の「私たち」が誰かとい...

  • Terms of Service

    Japanese American National Museum Terms of ServiceLast Updated: December 30, 2023Welcome to the websites of the Japanese American National Museum (“JANM”), the largest museum in the United States dedicated to sharing the experience of Americans of Japanese ancestry. The mission of JANM is to promote understanding and appreciation of America’s ethnic and cultural diversity by sharing the Japanese American experience. ...