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JANM’s Pavilion is closed for renovation and will reopen in late 2026. While the museum and store are closed, join us for programs and events on our Little Tokyo campus, throughout Southern California, and beyond. 

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  • "Common Ground" Exhibition Tour

    May 05, 2018

    Tour the ongoing exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community with JANM’s knowledgeable docents. Included with museum admission.

  • "Common Ground" Exhibition Tour

    Apr 07, 2018

    Tour the ongoing exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community with JANM’s knowledgeable docents. Included with museum admission.

  • Member Appreciation Days

    Nov 25, 2016 - Nov 27, 2016

    Friday–Sunday, November 25–27, 2016 JANM members always enjoy a 10% store discount and free admission to JANM. On this special weekend, take advantage of a 20% discount at the JANM Store and janmstore.com, plus free admission and a 20% store discount at 17 participating Southern California institutions. New participants this season will include Palm Springs Art Museum, who will join returning favorites s...

  • Indigo Dyed and "Boro" Stitched "Shibori" with Shibori Girl

    Feb 01, 2014 - Feb 02, 2014

    This two-day workshop explores recycling vintage Japanese boro (tattered) textiles through indigo ombre dying techniques to create new scarves. Feel free to bring your own natural and lightweight fabric bits to use and share. $70 members, $90 non-members, an additional $40 materials fee (cash only) required at the beginning of class. Bring a pair of rubber gloves, sewing pins, and scissors. RSVP early; 24 partici...

  • Beginners Wagashi Workshop

    Nov 19, 2011

    This is a hands-on wagashi making class. Chikara Mizukami will demonstrate two classics: Nerikiri and Kuzukiri. Nerikiri are hand molded bean cakes made with azuki bean paste and natural vegetable dyes for coloring. You will learn about the seasonal themes in Wagashi and the varieties of wagashi shapes - the abstract and impressionistic designs of Kyoto and the realistic designs of Edo (old Tokyo). We will also ma...

  • Kidding Around the Kitchen Family Cooking Workshop: Spring Rolls into JANM!

    Mar 26, 2011

    This workshop celebrates the coming of spring and the creation of an assortment of Asian foods, including sweet and savory spring and egg rolls, noodle soups and salads. All workshops are $25 for members (one child & one adult); $35 for non-members (one child & one adult), an additional $20 materials fee (cash only) will be collected at the beginning of the workshop, admission is included. RSVP early, 25 participa...

  • "9066 to 9/11"

    Jul 08, 2004

    Produced by the National Museum's Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center, 9066 to 9/11 explores similarities between the treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II and Arab and South Asian Americans post-9/11. The film reveals disturbing parallels between these experiences -- separated by more than sixty years. While Executive Order 9066, which authorized the incarceration of Japanese Americans during the war was...

  • Struggle and Success: The African American Experience in Japan

    Sep 16, 2001

    Join award-winning filmmaker Regge Life in a screening and discussion of Struggle and Success: The African American Experience in Japan, which is the first documentary to thoroughly examine the complex relationship of African Americans and Japanese. Mr. Life first went to Japan as an Artist Fellow with the U.S. Japan Friendship Commission in 1990. At the end of his six-month fellowship, he began planning this docu...

  • Exhibition Opening: "From Bento to Mixed Plate" at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, HI

    Oct 25, 1997

    Opening of exhibition From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Hawai‘i at the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawai‘i.

  • Clara Breed Collection

    (93.75.31) The online collection of Clara Breed, or “Miss Breed” as she was known by her young library patrons, includes over 300 letters and cards received by Breed from Japanese American children and young adults during their World War II incarceration.Miss Breed was the children’s librarian at San Diego Public Library from 1929 to 1945. When her young Japanese American patrons were forced into concentration camps ...