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  • Joint Statement from JANM, Chinese American Museum, LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, and Grand Performances on Los Angeles Protests

    Jun 10, 2025

    LOS ANGELES, CA – As museums and arts institutions located in downtown Los Angeles, we see everyday the vibrancy and joy of life in this community and throughout our beautiful city, shared and built by immigrants from all over the world. We take pride in the fact that many of our guests who visit us to enjoy the arts are from this community.This weekend, a manufactured crisis marked by immigration raids and aggressiv...

  • 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 Martha Nakagawa

    Aug 23, 2023

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) mourns the passing of Martha Nakagawa, an activist, journalist, writer, and researcher who was dedicated to unearthing groundbreaking stories in the Nikkei community. A native of Gardena, California, she earned her BA in Asian Studies and minor in Japanese from Stanford University. For over thirty years she worked for the Pacific Citizen, Rafu Shimpo, and...

  • 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,...

  • JANM Mourns the Passing of Former Board of Trustees Member R. Thomas Decker

    Dec 05, 2022

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) is deeply saddened by the passing of R. Thomas Decker, a former member of the JANM Board of Trustees. He passed away from pancreatic cancer on October 26, 2022. Decker grew up in Sausalito, California, and graduated from Stanford University in 1958 with a BA degree in economics and history. He served as an officer in the US Navy for three years and beg...

  • Two Day Workshop—Shibori Explorations

    Nov 05, 2022 - Nov 06, 2022

    $76 members, $95 non-members. Plus $40 materials fee due to the instructor at the beginning of class (cash only). Limited to 15 participants. One spot left! Come and join in this indigo and shibori workshop to practice, learn and enjoy all the creativity shibori has to offer! The class will explore a variety of traditional Japanese fabric dyeing techniques, including stitching, clamping, binding, and pole wrapp...

  • “Ansel Adams at Manzanar” Features over 50 Vintage Prints of Life in World War II Concentration Camp

    Oct 06, 2006

    Ansel Adams at Manzanar features the original work of one of America’s most famous photographers, who, during World War II, documented life in an American concentration camp. This exhibition opens at the Japanese American National Museum on Saturday, November 11, 2006, and will run through February 18, 2007. Organized by the Honolulu Academy of Arts, Ansel Adams at Manzanar includes more than 50 vintage prints from t...

  • Workshop: "Raise Your Voices: Shaping Democracy in the Classroom" (part 1 of 3)

    Feb 04, 2006

    February 4, 2006, 10:00am-3:00pm Mitchell Museum of the American Indian Evanston, IL The first of three FREE workshops for middle-school teachers (grades 6-8). Lane credit and/or CPDUs available. Don't miss this unique opportunity to work with professional development specialists from the Center for Cultural Understanding and Change at The Field Museum and Cultural Connections partner museums to consid...

  • Public Program and Book Signing cosponsored by the Embassy of Japan, the Smithsonian

    Nov 01, 2003

    Carmichael Auditorium, National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C. Scholars from Brazil, Canada, and the United States will discuss two new landmark publications that explore the current status of Nikkei in the Americas as well as common attributes Nikkei share, especially in terms of the family, the position of women, religion, education, politics, and economics. For more information, please contact ...

  • From Bento to Mixed Plate at National Museum of Ethnology (Osaka, Japan)

    Apr 19, 2001 - Aug 28, 2001

    TRAVELING EXHIBITION National Museum of Ethnology Osaka, Japan Following its successful international debut in Okinawa, From Bento to Mixed Plate will continue its travel throughout Japan with its opening at the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka. This exhibition has been re-designed for the Japanese speaking visitor to share the historical and personal stories of Hawai‘i’s AJA (Americans of Japanese ancest...