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  • Third Act screening at SBIFF

    Feb 13, 2025 - Feb 14, 2025

    Third Act will have its California Premiere at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Visit their website for tickets.Generations of artists call Robert A. Nakamura “the godfather of Asian American media,” but filmmaker Tadashi Nakamura calls him Dad. Robert’s diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease leads to an exploration of art, activism, grief, and fatherhood.

  • JANM Celebrates World Premiere of Documentary on Artist and Activist Nobuko Miyamoto

    Apr 15, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) announces the world premiere of Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement on Saturday, May 4, 2024, at 6 p.m. at the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center as part of the VC Film Fest. Directed by Tadashi Nakamura, the director of JANM’s Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center (MAC), and Quyên Nguyen-Le, a Daytime Emmy–nominated queer Vietnamese filmmaker, Nob...

  • JANM Celebrates the Establishment of the Amache National Historic Site

    Feb 16, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) celebrates the establishment of the Amache National Historic Site in Granada, Colorado. The site is the nation’s newest unit of the National Park Service (NPS). “Amache is one of the ten American concentration camps in which over 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were incarcerated for the duration of World War ll. Their lives were changed forever. We...

  • On 22: Twenty-Two Years of Creativity

    Oct 21, 2023

    Join On Ensemble—one of the most respected ensembles in the taiko world—as they celebrate twenty-two years of creativity with a special performance at JANM. Established in 2002 by childhood friends Shoji Kameda and Masato “Maz” Baba, On Ensemble infuses the powerful rhythms of taiko with a wide range of musical influences from jazz and rock to central Asian overtone singing. Modern Drummer magazine calls them “an ...

  • ZÓCALO—What Does the Life of Frederick Douglass Tell Us About America?

    Nov 29, 2018

    A Smithsonian/ASU "What It Means to Be American" Event at JANM’s National Center for the Preservation of Democracy Moderated by Baratunde Thurston, cultural critic, comedian, and author of How to Be Black American icon Frederick Douglass died in 1895, but he still makes the news. Indeed, he represents an increasingly rare sort of hero—one whose story is invoked across the political spectrum. Perhaps t...

  • JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM RECEIVES BEQUEST FROM ESTATE OF SETSUKO OKA

    Sep 11, 2018

    Los Angeles, CA—The Japanese American National Museum has received a bequest in excess of $525,000 from the estate of Setsuko Oka, a longtime museum member who died in October 2017. The funds will go toward educational initiatives as well as exhibitions and programs focused on Japanese artistic and cultural heritage in the United States, through the soon-to-be-established Setsuko Oka Japanese Heritage Fund. A plaque ...

  • JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNOUNCES ADDITIONS TO BOARDS OF TRUSTEES AND GOVERNORS

    Sep 07, 2018

    Los Angeles, CA—The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) has named Mark Okada to its Board of Trustees and Kazuo “Kaz” Koshi and W.D. “Denny” Minami to its Board of Governors. Trustees serve for three-year terms; governors serve two-year terms. In both roles, individuals may be re-elected for additional terms. “I’m very pleased that Mark is joining JANM’s Board of Trustees. He brings a wealth of knowledge and ...

  • JANM TO PRESENT SPECIAL FREE SCREENING OF STEVE AOKI’S NETFLIX ORIGINAL FILM "I’LL SLEEP WHEN I’M DEAD"

    Aug 31, 2016

    I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead, a new documentary on the life of influential DJ, music producer, and record label founder Steve Aoki, will be screened at the Japanese American National Museum on September 27, at 7:30 p.m. Free and open to the public, the screening will be followed by a discussion with Aoki led by Mike Shinoda of Grammy Award-winning rock band Linkin Park. I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead was shot over the c...

  • JANM ANNOUNCES NEW VP OF EXTERNAL RELATIONS

    Nov 30, 2015

    Rick Noguchi has been hired as Vice President of External Relations for the Japanese American National Museum. He began his role on November 16. Noguchi reports to JANM President and CEO Greg Kimura. The hiring marks a return to the museum for Noguchi, who previously held positions there in public programs and development. He has more than 20 years of experience in the nonprofit sector, serving in various mana...

  • 私たちの約束ー再生する

    JANMの施設をリニューアルし、あらゆる皆様に親しみやすく、充実したダイナミックな空間を生み出します（2,500万ドル）。 好奇心と共に始まった旅が、行動を伴って終わる—当館の新しい常設展は来館者の方々にそんな経験を提供する場所になります。日系アメリカ人の物語は、今現在も形作られているアメリカを代表する物語です。新しい常設展示は、本質的に多人種で多民族で多文化であるアメリカの物語を体感していただける場になります。 移民、強制収容、コミュニティーのトラウマ、戦後の政治、人種差別と不寛容、我慢強さとアクティビズム、アイデンティティーと多様性といったテーマを通し、当館の新しい常設展はアイデアや議論、また異なる意見を交換する双方向の場を生み出します。 JANMには、パビリオン、ヒストリック・ビルディング、民主主義保存全米センターの３つの建物があります。来館者の皆様に安全にまた快適に過ごしていただくためには、これ...