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  • Musician June Kuramoto to be Celebrated in Program of Music at JANM on October 19

    Sep 23, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – In Japanese, Ichigo Ichie translates to “One chance, one opportunity.” This is the theme of the Arigato event, a program celebrating the noted koto musician and 2024 NEA National Heritage Fellow June Kuramoto on Saturday, October 19, 2024, at 2 p.m. in the Tateuchi Democracy Forum at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM). Tickets are $50 ($40 for JANM Members) and are available at janm.org/ev...

  • JANM Urges the Bureau of Land Management to Reconsider the Proposal to Erase Viewshed and Heritage of Minidoka National Historic Site

    Jun 10, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) urges the Bureau of Land Management to reconsider its proposal for the Lava Ridge Wind Project that would erase the viewshed and heritage of the Minidoka National Historic site in southern Idaho. If the proposal is approved, 241 wind turbines that are 660 feet tall would be built within view of the original site of the Minidoka concentration camp. “Bu...

  • JANM Mourns the Passing of Margaret “Marge” Wada

    May 10, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) mourns the passing of Margaret “Marge” Wada, a dedicated JANM volunteer for twenty-three years. She worked for the State of California for nineteen years and retired as a Manager II. At JANM she taught origami to students during school visits and supported staff with mailings and other projects. Her passion for dancing led to her to recruit and organize v...

  • JANM Mourns the Passing of Hisako Terasaki

    Apr 25, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) mourns the recent passing of Nisei artist Hisako Terasaki. Born to Shuichi and Chizu Sumioka, she and her sister, Tokiko, grew up in Boyle Heights where her family ran a flower shop. The Sumiokas were incarcerated at the Poston concentration camp in Arizona. During the postwar years, they lived and worked apart from each other to help their family become ...

  • JANM Mourns the Passing of Sakaye Aratani

    Apr 02, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) mourns Sakaye Aratani, who passed away on March 18, 2024. Aratani grew up in Gardena, where her parents ran a chicken farm. When Pearl Harbor was bombed, her family lived with relatives in Reedley, California before being forcibly removed to the Poston concentration camp in Arizona. While visiting another camp she met her future husband, George, and they ...

  • JANM Digital Film Festival Premiere: Our Man in Tokyo (The Ballad of Shin Miyata)

    May 08, 2020

    Join us as we dive into films produced by the Japanese American National Museum’s Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center! We will be releasing a selection of films, some for a limited time only. Organize a (virtual) screening party with your friends or family or just get cozy and enjoy the JANM Digital Film Festival from the safety of your own home. We will also have Q&A sessions with the filmmakers and others involved in...

  • ANN BURROUGHS ELECTED CHAIR OF AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL’S GLOBAL COUNCIL

    Aug 15, 2018

    Los Angeles, CA—Ann Burroughs, President and CEO of the Japanese American National Museum, has been named Chair of Amnesty International’s Global Council, the organization’s highest decision-making body that brings together human rights leaders from over 70 countries. “Ann has been a transformative leader of the Japanese American National Museum since joining us 2016. She has long been involved with Amnesty Intern...

  • AUTHOR OF 'HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET' TO SPEAK JAN. 29

    Jan 27, 2011

    Author Jamie Ford will discuss his first novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, which focuses on a young Chinese American boy losing his Japanese American friend to the unconstitutional mass incarceration by the U.S. government during World War II, in a special program set for Saturday, January 29, beginning at 2 p.m. at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo. The novel revolves around Chin...

  • First Major Exhibition of Rarely Seen Ceramic Works by Isamu Noguchi to Open In Only West Coast Venue, The Japanese American National Museum

    Dec 31, 2003

    A major survey of postwar Japanese ceramic art focusing on the work of Japanese American artist Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988) and his Japanese contemporaries opens at its only west coast venue, the Japanese American National Museum, on February 7, 2004. Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics is a landmark traveling exhibition organized by the Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, and is the first major museum pr...

  • Transcendients: 100 Days of COVID-19 and Memorial to Healthcare Workers

    Transcendients: 100 Days of COVID-19 and Memorial to Healthcare Workers Artist Statement by Taiji Terasaki In March of 2020, when Stay-at-Home Orders were imposed on much of the United States and the world, I found myself socially distanced in my studio. Responding to the uncertainties and anxieties the pandemic brought, I tried to find light in positive stories. So I started a meditative weaving process...