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  • JANM Volunteers Host Kokoro Craft Show on October 11, 2025

    Oct 08, 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 – Volunteers of the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will host the 2025 Kokoro Craft Show on Saturday, October 11, 2025, at the Los Angeles Hompa Hongwanji Buddhist Temple from 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Admission is free and parking is $10.Kokoro is a Japane...

  • Nikkei Children’s Book Festival

    Sep 20, 2025

    Dokushyo no Aki means “fall is for reading,” expressing the sentiment that the cozy and short days of autumn are the best time to pick up a book. Jump into the reading season with our Nikkei Children’s Book Festival and celebrate the breadth and diversity of children’s literature across the Japanese American community. The festival will be full of author storytimes for kids, Q&As for adults, activities for all ages, ...

  • JANM Celebrates 140 Years of Little Tokyo with Exhibit of Local History

    Sep 10, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) invites visitors to a new pop-up exhibit, Celebrating Little Tokyo at 140 Years, on view in the Manabi and Sumi Hirasaki National Resource Center (HNRC) at the Museum through January 5, 2025. JANM, alongside other Little Tokyo community organizations, is celebrating the anniversary with the theme, Celebrating Our Legacy. Persevering for Our Future. The ex...

  • Democracy Center and entertwine Present The Grand Event on July 28, 2024

    Jul 16, 2024

    PSAWHAT:Enjoy performances of the top ten short plays from the 2024 APIDA 24-Hour Playwriting Contest, which amplifies the voices of diverse and underrepresented Asian American, Pacific Islander, and Desi American writers. WHEN: Sunday, July 28, 2024 from 2 p.m.–4 p.m. PDTWHERE:Tateuchi Democracy ForumJapanese American National Museum100 North Central AvenueLos Angeles, CA 90012RSVP:RSVP at janm.org/events.###About t...

  • The Democracy Center and Holocaust Museum LA Present Discussion on Roots of Antisemitism Within Marginalized Communities on May 16, 2023

    May 04, 2023

    WHAT: Holocaust Museum LA and the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy at JANM present Addressing the Roots of Antisemitism Within Marginalized Communities, a discussion on the roots of antisemitism that exists within marginalized communities. WHEN: Tuesday, May 16, 2023 at 7 p.m. DETAILS: This distinguished panel will talk about the negative impacts antisemitism has on our society and what we ...

  • 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...