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  • LA Asian Pacific Film Festival at JANM

    May 01, 2025 - May 07, 2025

    Celebrate with Visual Communications as they present the 41st edition of the VC Film Fest (Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival) from May 1–7, 2025. The festival is the premier showcase for the best and brightest of Asian Pacific cinema and has presented over 5,000 films, videos, and digital mediaworks by Asian and Pacific Islander artists since 1983.The Democracy Center at JANM is excited to be one of the LAAPFF ...

  • Defining Courage at the Palace of Fine Arts (San Francisco, CA)

    Mar 02, 2024

    ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY! Saturday, March 2, 2024 • 4 p.m. Palace of Fine Arts San Francisco, CA Defining Courage is a journey into the legacy of the Nisei Soldier, Americans of Japanese ancestry who served in the segregated military units of the 100th Infantry Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, Military Intelligence Service, and 522nd Field Artillery Battalion. Considered the greatest fighting u...

  • JANM Mourns the Passing of Min Tonai

    Sep 21, 2023

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) mourns the passing of Min Tonai. A revered community hero and an ardent advocate for ensuring that the Japanese American experience is never forgotten, Min’s advocacy and dedication to service was shaped by his life experiences. Born in 1929 on Terminal Island, he was incarcerated at the Santa Anita temporary detention center in California and the Amach...

  • The Japanese American National Museum Mourns the Passing of Tomio Ito, Former Member of the Museum's Board of Governors

    Feb 24, 2023

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) is saddened by the recent passing of Tomio Ito, who served as a member of the Museum’s Board of Governors from 1996–2014. Ito’s parents, Gonsaku and Mine, came from Yokkaichi, Japan, to California in 1918 in search of a prosperous life. They eventually settled in Venice, where Tomio was born in 1924. He learned English and Japanese, worked on the farm,...

  • 2023 Day of Remembrance

    Feb 17, 2023

    LOS ANGELES, CA – This year marks the 81st anniversary of the Day of Remembrance—a day for all of us to reflect on the injustice suffered by Japanese Americans during World War II. For many Japanese Americans, February 19 is not an abstract date in history. It is a somber day that represents many layers of loss for real people and communities. When President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on Feb...

  • JANM PRESENTS TRANCENDIENTS COMMUNITY CELEBRATION: CHALLENGING BORDERS

    Feb 14, 2020

    Los Angeles, CA–The Transcendients Community Celebration: Challenging Borders, a free one-day event, kicks off on Saturday, March 7 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Japanese American National Museum. The community celebration offers music, dance, art, speaker series, and hands-on activities along with artist Taiji Terasaki’s groundbreaking collaboration with the Japanese American National Museum, Transcendients: Her...

  • PROF. MITCH MAKI TO GIVE OVERVIEW OF REDRESS; PANEL TO DISCUSS OTHER GROUPS' STORIES ON AUG. 10

    Aug 08, 2008

    The Japanese American National Museum will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 which provided a government apology to thousands of Japanese Americans forcibly removed from their homes during World War II with a public program, "America’s Promise", featuring Professor Mitch Maki and a panel discussion of other civil rights issues, set for Sunday, August 10, 2008, in the D...

  • “The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa: Contours in the Air” Displays Prolific Career of Wire Sculpture Artist at Japanese American National Museum March 10-May 27

    Feb 16, 2007

    The unique career of Ruth Asawa, an artist whose looped-wire sculptures defied traditional conventions, is highlighted in the traveling exhibition, The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa: Contours in the Air, which opens at the Japanese American National Museum on Saturday, March 10, 2007 and runs through Sunday, May 27, 2007. Curated by Dr. Daniell Cornell of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, this exhibition of sculpture...

  • Communities Transformed: Families from Seattle Share Stories of the Internment

    Jan 21, 2006

    The incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II affected families in ways both unique and similar. For this program, three authors of books exploring the impact of these events on individuals, families, and communities in the Pacific Northwest discuss their work in an insightful panel presentation. Varied in style, authors Mary Matsuda Gruenewald, David A. Neiwert, and Toshiko Shoji Ito share poignant ...

  • 私たちの約束

    キャンペーンの目的寄付申し込み方法今後のイベントプレス寄付する私たちの物語はアメリカの物語です。全米日系人博物館（JANM）の創設者たちは、1942年に日系アメリカ人に起こったことが他のいかなるグループにも起こらないよう、当館が公民権のしるべとしてあり続けることを約束しました。当館の未来を確かなものとし、物理的・デジタル上の施設、展示やプログラムを変革するため、当館史上最大のキャンペーンを開始いたします。 昨年、JANMは「私たちの約束」という大規模な資金調達キャンペーンと、博物館の展示室のリノベーション、新しい常設展、プログラムの刷新をはじめとする当館の将来の計画を発表しました。コミュニティーの皆様からのたゆまないご支援と、金額や公私、また場所を問わない皆様からの惜しみないご支援によって、当館は6500万ドルの当初の目標額を達成することができました。このたびキャンペーン期間を2026年末まで延長するとともに、目標額を8500万...