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  • JANM Breaks Ground on Pavilion Construction

    Jul 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 – Today JANM launched an exciting new chapter with its 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. The special event...

  • Mario Gershom Reyes: OBRAS DE LUZ (Works of Light)

    Dec 06, 2024 - Jan 05, 2025

    As a photojournalist with The Rafu Shimpo (Los Angeles’s Japanese American newspaper since 1903), Mario Reyes has documented the milestones, the tragedies, and the victories of the Japanese American community in Los Angeles. A new pop-up exhibition at JANM features photographs that record the moments and people that make up life in Little Tokyo, from Nisei Week Parades and political protests to schoolchildren and spo...

  • 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...

  • 2020 Los Angeles Day of Remembrance—Democracy in Crisis: 1942 and 2020

    Feb 15, 2020

    PAY WHAT YOU WISH Day of Remembrance commemorates the signing of Executive Order 9066 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942. Executive Order 9066 authorized the military to remove and incarcerate persons of Japanese ancestry into American concentration camps. The theme for this year’s Day of Remembrance event is Democracy in Crisis: 1942 and 2020, exploring how democracy has been tested in b...

  • 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...

  • TWIN SISTERS' LONG STRUGGLE TO OVERCOME CYSTIC FIBROSIS SUBJECT OF DOCUMENTARY, 'THE POWER OF TWO'

    Jun 12, 2012

    Isabel Stenzel Byrnes and Anabel Stenzel, twin sisters whose mother is Japanese, will be on hand to answer questions after a screening of the documentary, "The Power of Two" (with Japanese subtitles), about their lives and how they struggled to overcome cystic fibrosis (CF) in a special Tateuchi Public Program at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) on Saturday, June 30, beginning at 1 p.m. in the Tateuchi De...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...