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  • Ireicho National Tour—Manzanar

    Apr 26, 2025 - Apr 27, 2025

    Appointments are no longer being accepted for this venue. JANM is partnering with The Irei Project and USC’s Duncan Ryuken Williams to travel The Ireichō: Book of Names in conjunction with pilgrimages to all ten former War Relocation Authority concentration camps, to other Department of Justice and Wartime Civil Control Administration incarceration sites, and selected cities across the US. The tour is part of JANM on...

  • Daniel K. Inouye National Center for the Preservation of Democracy Relaunch

    Dec 01, 2023

    Please join us on Friday, December 1, 2023 for the relaunch the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy as the Daniel K. Inouye National Center for the Preservation of Democracy (Democracy Center). An initiative of JANM, the revitalized Democracy Center builds on the original vision of Senator Daniel K. Inouye by examining issues around race, identity, and social justice; exploring the evolving idea of ...

  • JANM Mourns the Passing of US Senator Dianne Feinstein

    Sep 30, 2023

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) mourns the passing of US Senator Dianne Feinstein. She was San Francisco’s first female mayor and one of California’s two first female senators. In Congress, she was the first woman to lead the Senate Intelligence Committee and was the first woman to serve as the Judiciary Committee’s top Democrat. Throughout her career she advocated for civil liberties, ...

  • JANM Mourns the Passing of Mary Adams Urashima, Leader of Effort to Preserve History of Japanese Americans in Huntington Beach

    Dec 01, 2022

    LOS ANGELES, CA –The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) is deeply saddened by the passing of Mary Adams Urashima. A local history expert and preservationist, Urashima led the effort to preserve the history of Japanese Americans in Orange County, in particular Huntington Beach. She created the blog historicwintersburg.blogspot.com to raise awareness and document the history of Japanese pioneers in Wintersburg Vi...

  • Sansei Rocker Symposium

    Jul 30, 2022

    FREE In Person Waitlist Virtual RSVP Join a panel of “Sansei rockers” as they discuss Harry Manaka’s book, Chronicles of a Sansei Rocker, which explores the dynamic Japanese American music and dance scene of the ’60s and ’70s. Tina Fujino, Gerald Ishibashi, David Honjio, and Harry Manaka will reunite in a conversation about community, history, and rock music, moderated by actress Brittany Ish...

  • Author Discussion—Beyond the Betrayal with Arthur Hansen & Lawson Inada

    Jun 04, 2022

    Free* In Person RSVP Virtual RSVP Beyond the Betrayal: the Memoir of a WWII Japanese American Draft Resister of Conscience by Yoshito Kuromiya (1923–2018) is the only book-length memoir written by a World War II Japanese American draft resister of conscience,Yoshito Kuromiya. Join editor Arthur A. Hansen, a leading scholar of Japanese American history, and Lawson Fusao Inada, renowned poet, in con...

  • Honoring Kalief Browder

    May 25, 2022

    FREE After being arrested at age 16 for allegedly stealing a backpack, Kalief Browder spent three years in the jail complex on Rikers Island, the main prison compound of New York City renowned for extraordinary levels of violence and disorder. Browder maintained his innocence and during the time spent in Rikers waiting for a trial that never happened, was subjected to prolonged solitary confinement and intense men...

  • ANN CURRY ANNOUNCED AS FEATURED SPEAKER AT JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM’S GALA DINNER

    Feb 20, 2019

    Los Angeles, CA—Award-winning journalist and photojournalist Ann Curry will be the featured speaker at the Japanese American National Museum’s Gala Dinner and Silent Auction on April 13, 2019, at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown. Curry, a former NBC News anchor and international correspondent, has reported on conflicts and humanitarian disasters all over the world. She has conducted a long list of exclusi...

  • COMING TO TERMS: The Impact of World War II on American Jews and Japanese American Today

    Mar 17, 1998

    COMING TO TERMS: The Impact of World War II on American Jews and Japanese American Today Sunday, March 29, 1998 1 p.m.–5 p.m., reception to follow New York University Law School, Greenberg Lounge 42 Washington Square South FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC As a supplement to the exhibition America’s Concentration Camps: Remembering the Japanese American Experience at Ellis Island Immigration Museum, this pu...

  • hapa.me – 15 years of the hapa project - Venues

    hapa.me – 15 years of the hapa project originated at the Japanese American National Museum and was on display April 7 – October 28, 2018. The exhibition is now traveling to other venues. See below for information about confirmed venues and dates.Interested in booking this exhibition? Download Travel Fact Sheet hapa.me Interactivity TRAVELING EXHIBITION SITES Current/Upcoming Venues Check back for updates Past Ve...