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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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  • Defining Courage in Hawaiʻi

    Nov 08, 2025 - Nov 10, 2025

    Defining Courage is a journey into the legacy of the Nisei Soldier—Japanese Americans who served in the segregated units of the 100th Infantry Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, Military Intelligence Service, and 522nd Field Artillery Battalion. Produced and narrated by ABC7-Los Angeles news anchor and filmmaker David Ono, Defining Courage honors the greatest fighting units in American military history. Featuri...

  • Saturday, October 18 Program Highlights Angel Island’s Hidden World War II History

    Oct 10, 2025

    PSAWHAT:JANM and the Nikkei Genealogical Society present an in-depth guide to Angel Island’s hidden history during World War II.WHEN:Saturday, October 18, 2025 from 1 p.m.–2:30 p.m.DETAILS:Historian and genealogist Grant Din, co-curator of the exhibit Taken From Their Families, will illuminate the experiences of nearly 700 Japanese immigrants temporarily detained at Angel Island’s Fort McDowell before transfer to oth...

  • 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 ...

  • Glenn Kaino: Aki’s Market Opening Celebration

    Jun 30, 2023

    FREE Join us for the opening of Aki’s Market, a new and uniquely personal project by acclaimed multimedia artist and filmmaker Glenn Akira Kaino. Visit this new exhibition for free, explore the museum, and dance to beats by DJ Melo-D of the Beat Junkies. Food and ice cream available for purchase from food trucks Savage Taco and Moom Maam. Glenn Kaino: Aki’s Market is inspired by Akira and Sachiye Shiraishi’s sm...

  • PROF. GREG ROBINSON TO DISCUSS LATEST BOOK, 'A TRAGEDY OF DEMOCRACY', ON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24

    Oct 03, 2009

    Respected historian and author Greg Robinson will read excerpts from his latest book, A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America, and will discuss what newly discovered materials he found and how it affects his view of history at a public program set for Saturday, October 24, starting at 2 p.m. at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo. While the story of the unconstitutional mass...

  • 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: Dreams of Democracy, Realities of Racism

    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: Dreams of Democracy, Realities of Racism will feature never-before exhibited artifacts and...