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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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  • Museum Store Sunday with HAKKO

    Nov 30, 2025

    Celebrate Museum Store Sunday with the JANM Store’s unique pop-up event featuring select items from the store. Yoko Maeda Lamn of HAKKO will have products like artisan koji, miso, and shoyu, and a demonstration and tasting of their pressed kioke (wooden barrel) soy sauce. Sample what it’s like to support JANM’s mission while buying gifts and supplies for the holidays!NOTE: Unfortunately, Sonoko Sakai is no longer abl...

  • Members Only Meet-and-Greet with Debbi Michiko Florence and Mark Nagata

    Nov 15, 2025

    Meet author Debbi Michiko Florence and artist Mark Nagata during an exclusive Members Only conversation and pre-event book signing of the new book, Monster Maker: The Strange Creatures of Mark Nagata.Monster Maker: The Strange Creatures of Mark Nagata is a biographical account of toy designer, painter, illustrator, and collector Mark Nagata. From a young age, Nagata was a fan of many classic comic book series, movies...

  • JANM Questions the Rewriting of US History in National Archives Exhibition Plans

    Nov 04, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) questions the National Archive and Record Administration’s plan, as reported in the Wall Street Journal last week, to remove references to historical events—including Dorothea Lange’s photographs of Japanese American incarceration during World War II, the federal government’s displacement of indigenous tribes, and Martin Luther King Jr. marching for civil...

  • JANM Mourns the Passing of Gary Y. Okihiro

    May 29, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) mourns the passing of renowned author and scholar, Gary Y. Okihiro. He was a visiting professor of American studies at Yale University, professor emeritus of international and public affairs at Columbia University, and founding director of Columbia’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race. “Okihiro’s work was instrumental to and deeply valued by J...

  • Contested Histories at The Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California (San Francisco, CA)

    Jun 23, 2018 - Jun 24, 2018

    TRAVELING DISPLAYThe Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern CaliforniaSan Francisco, CASaturday: 9 a.m.–6:30 p.m.; workshop: 5:30 p.m.–6:15 p.m.Sunday: 9 a.m.–6 p.m.; workshop: 3:30 p.m.–4:15 p.m. Allen Hendershott Eaton’s historic 1952 book, Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps, explored art and craft objects created by persons of Japanese descent while wrongful...

  • PROF. SCOTT KURASHIGE TO DISCUSS 'SHIFTING GROUNDS OF RACE' ON SATURDAY, JULY 30

    Jul 28, 2011

    Professor Scott Kurashige will provide insight into his book, Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles, at a public program set for the Japanese American National Museum on Saturday, July 30, beginning at 2 p.m. Among Professor Kurashige’s insights is the fact that Los Angeles, now considered one of the most diverse metropolitan areas in the world, had the sma...

  • MIXED: PORTRAITS OF MULTIRACIAL KIDS BY KIP FULBECK TO PREMIERE MARCH 20

    Mar 12, 2010

    A new exhibition, Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Kids by Kip Fulbeck, featuring over 70 framed photographic images of children of multiple racial heritage and their statements or drawings, will premiere at the Japanese American National Museum on Saturday, March 20, with activities from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The exhibition runs through September 26, 2010. Organized by the National Museum and Kip Fulbeck, an award-win...

  • AUTHOR CATHY IRWIN TO DISCUSS PLIGHT OF MANZANAR ORPHANS ON MARCH 21

    Mar 14, 2009

    Author Cathy Irwin will relate stories from her new book, Twice Orphaned: Voices from the Children’s Village of Manzanar, and will discuss the history with some of the orphans forced to live in a government-run World War II concentration camp in a public program set for Saturday, March 21, beginning at 2 p.m., at the Japanese American National Museum. Thousands of Japanese Americans were unlawfully forced to leave...

  • Contested Histories: Art and Artifacts from the Allen Hendershott Eaton Collection - Venues

    Contested Histories: Art and Artifacts from the Allen Hendershott Eaton Collection originated at the Japanese American National Museum and was on display January 7 – April 8, 2018. The pop-up display is now traveling to other venues. See below for information about confirmed venues and dates. Please check back for updated schedule.Interested in booking this display? JANM is currently looking for locations in the cent...

  • In The Future We Call Now: Realities of Racism, Dreams of Democracy

    JANM’s New Core Exhibition—Coming in 2026Explore over a century and a half of Japanese American history in the United States to consider the choices our country has made in the past—and the choices we all make today to build the future we want to pass down.The centerpiece of JANM’s ongoing renovation, In The Future We Call Now: Realities of Racism , Dreams of Democracy will feature never-before exhibited artifacts an...