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  • Ireicho National Tour—Jerome and Rohwer, Arkansas

    May 21, 2025 - May 22, 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...

  • 2023 Oshogatsu Family Festival—Year of the Rabbit

    Jan 08, 2023

    FREE ALL DAY Join us as we welcome the Year of the Rabbit with cultural performances, crafts, and activities for families and kids of all ages! Traditional mochitsuki (Japanese rice pounding ritual) performance by Kodama Taiko Candy sculpture demonstrations by Shan Ichiyanagi (Shan the Candyman) Koto and calligraphy performances Author-led interactive storytimes Fun Oshogatsu and Year of the Rabbit-i...

  • Museum Store Sunday

    Nov 29, 2020

    FREE GIFT WITH PURCHASE OF $20 OR MORE! We are celebrating the fourth annual Museum Store Sunday on November 29 by offering a special gift with purchases over $20! Get a FREE mixed set of Allen Say’s Tree of Cranes holiday cards. Enjoy six each of his two signature illustrations (a total of 12 cards) from the Caldecott Award-winning artist’s very special holiday book. On November 29, 2020, when you purch...

  • JANM TO HOST “COMMON GROUND CONVERSATIONS” BEGINNING IN JANUARY

    Dec 14, 2016

    The Japanese American National Museum will host a four-week series of "Common Ground Conversations" in the galleries of its Common Ground: The Heart of Community exhibition beginning January 12, 2017. Sessions will take place on consecutive Thursday evenings from 7 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. and each will focus on a different topic. Staff members of the museum’s education department will lead each session and facilitate the...

  • JANM’S ANNUAL OSHOGATSU FAMILY FESTIVAL SET FOR JANUARY 8, 2017

    Dec 01, 2016

    The Japanese American National Museum will hold its annual Oshogatsu Family Festival on Sunday, January 8, 2017, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The New Year celebration will include free crafts, performances, and cultural activities for people of all ages to help ring in the Year of the Rooster. Highlights of the day will include demonstrations of the ancient art of candy sculpting, sample bowls of lucky zaru soba fo...

  • JANM ANNOUNCES HONOREES AND THEME FOR 2017 ANNUAL GALA DINNER

    Nov 15, 2016

    The Japanese American National Museum will hold its annual Gala Dinner and Silent Auction on May 6, 2017, at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Suites, Los Angeles. The evening’s theme will be Reconnecting with the Past, Forging Our Future and the honorees will be Irene Hirano Inouye, the museum’s founding Executive Director; Bruce T. Kaji, a founding Director and the founding President of the museum; and Tom Ikeda, ...

  • JANM EXHIBITION TO SHOWCASE PHOTOGRAPHS FROM WWII FARM LABOR CAMPS

    Aug 22, 2016

    The Japanese American National Museum will present Uprooted: Japanese American Farm Labor Camps During World War II, a traveling exhibition featuring the work of Farm Security Administration photographer Russell Lee in Oregon and Idaho, from September 27, 2016, to January 8, 2017. During World War II, the United States government forcibly removed over 120,000 Japanese Americans from the Pacific Coast. These in...

  • Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past in Los Angeles

    December 1–17, 2023 Three downtown Los Angeles museums present a collaborative series of public programs in connection with the Smithsonian initiative The initiative explores the history and legacy of race and racism and seeks to spark positive social change and build a more equitable shared future. With programs that range from symposia and panel discussions to films, food, and family activities...

  • Moving Images Collection

    The Japanese American National Museum has published a trove of rare home-movie footage from the Museum’s historic collections on its Discover Nikkei website. This online collection includes rare home-movie footage of over 330 film clips about the daily lives of Japanese Americans from the 1920s through the 1960s including poignant footage from America’s World War II concentration camps. Drawn from the Nationa...

  • Dreams to Dreams - Artist Interpretations

    The Japanese American National Museum in association with Dacosta of Chocolate Soop brought together artists who customized Chocolate Soop’s DCTO (Dream Come True Object), a futuristic vinyl version of the traditional Japanese daruma. Check out the photos below to view the various artists’ interpretations. A few of the pieces are available to purchase at the JANM Store. Tako Rikishi (Octopus Sumo) J...