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  • Ireicho National Tour—Fort Lincoln, North Dakota

    Sep 05, 2025 - Sep 06, 2025

    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 the Go, a series of programs and exhibitions presented ac...

  • World Premiere of Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement at the VC Film Fest

    May 04, 2024

    JANM is proud to present the world premiere of Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement, at the VC Film Fest in Los Angeles on May 4, 2024. Experience this new sweeping documentary from JANM’s Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center and PBS SoCal that follows the life of visionary artist-activist Nobuko Miyamoto and her work that changed Asian America forever. Featuring rare archival footage, Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Mo...

  • JANM Announces the Recent Accolades of Its Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center

    Apr 26, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) is pleased to announce the recent award and accomplishments of its Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center (MAC). MAC’s short documentary film, Benkyodo: The Last Manju Shop in J-Town, won the Audience Award for Best Documentary Short at the Seattle Asian American Film Festival and was nominated for Best Documentary Short at the Disorient Asian American Film Fe...

  • 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...

  • An American Vocabulary

    Ongoing

    An American Vocabulary: Words to Action is a collaborative project by visual artist Audrey Chan and rapper jason chu. This set of flash cards portrays figures, events, and practices rooted in community, care, and action. Through these words and images, the artists invite you to participate in a shared vocabulary of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) agency and unity in the fight for jus...

  • 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...

  • 30th Anniversary Benefit

    Thank you to everyone who joined us in person or via livestream for JANM’s 30th Anniversary Benefit! On behalf of the Board, staff, and volunteers, thank you to our sponsors and to everyone who helped to make our first hybrid fundraiser such a success. Your generous support and faith in our mission means so much to us. Thank you for lifting us up with your generosity and unwavering commitment to JANM.

  • KOKORO CRAFT BOUTIQUE SET FOR OCTOBER 7 AT JANM

    Sep 04, 2018

    Los Angeles, CA—The tenth annual Kokoro Craft Boutique, organized by volunteers at the Japanese American National Museum, will take place at the museum on Sunday, October 7, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., with Yuujou Daiko, a taiko performance group based in South San Gabriel, performing at 1 p.m. Admission to the boutique is free. Kokoro Craft Boutique will feature more than 50 vendors selling unique jewelry, kimono fab...