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  • 2025 Benefit & Online Auction

    Apr 12, 2025

    Celebrate our critical past, dynamic present, and ambitious future in the heart of downtown Los Angeles at Unlocking the Future, JANM’s 2025 Benefit and Online Auction. Embark on a major renovation with us to amplify our stories, inspire a more just future, and honor the legacy of the Japanese American community.Enjoy a special live performance by Judith Hill and celebrate the legacies of inspirational community lead...

  • The Japanese American National Museum Mourns the Passing of Richard Riordan

    Apr 26, 2023

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) mourns the passing of Richard Riordan, the former mayor of Los Angeles. He helped JANM secure the Historic Building as the site for the Museum, approved decisions to help move the dream of the Central Avenue Art Park project near JANM forward, and attended the opening of the Pavilion featuring the theme Celebrating the American Experience on January 22, 1...

  • JANM Mourns the Passing of Roger Daniels, Preeminent Historian and Scholar of the World War II Japanese American Incarceration Experience

    Dec 16, 2022

    LOS ANGELES, CA –The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) is saddened by the passing of Roger Daniels, the preeminent historian and scholar of his generation on the World War II Japanese American experience. He was ninety-five years old when he passed away on December 9, 2022. Daniels was the Charles Phelps Taft Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Cincinnati. Beginning with The Politics of Preju...

  • The Japanese American National Museum and Asian American Pacific Islander Arts Network Present a Program on the Legacy of Former Curator, Karin Higa

    Oct 28, 2022

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) and the Asian American Pacific Islander Arts Network (AAPIAN) present Karin Higa: Hidden in Plain Sight on Saturday, November 5, 2022 from 2 p.m.–3:30 p.m. PDT in the Tateuchi Democracy Forum. This free in-person and virtual program is the first in a two-part series that highlights the legacy of the late curator, writer, and cultural activist Karin Hig...

  • 2022 Los Angeles Day of Remembrance

    Feb 19, 2022

    The annual Los Angeles Day of Remembrance commemorates the signing on February 19, 1942 of Executive Order 9066 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Executive Order 9066 authorized the military to remove and incarcerate persons of Japanese ancestry into American concentration camps during World War II. Focusing on the theme of “Power of Communities: Building Strength Through Collective Action,” this year’s vi...

  • DODGERS MANAGER DAVE ROBERTS TO SPEAK AT JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM

    Jun 06, 2016

    Dave Roberts, the first ethnic minority manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers will give a talk about his life and career at the Japanese American National Museum on Saturday, June 18, at 10:30 a.m. The discussion will be moderated by Scott Akasaki, the Dodgers’ Director of Team Travel. Roberts will discuss his history and future with the Dodgers; how his half-Japanese, half-African American background has informed his...

  • JANM TO OPEN TWO PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITIONS

    Jan 20, 2016

    The Japanese American National Museum will open two new exhibitions on February 28, 2016. Making Waves: Japanese American Photography, 1920–1940 is an in-depth examination of the contributions of Japanese Americans to photography, particularly modernist art photography. Two Views: Photographs by Ansel Adams and Leonard Frank examines the forced incarceration of citizens of Japanese descent who were living in the west...

  • JANM ANNOUNCES HONOREES AND THEME FOR 2016 ANNUAL GALA DINNER

    Jan 11, 2016

    The Japanese American National Museum will hold its annual Gala Dinner, Silent Auction, and After Party on March 19, 2016, at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Suites, Los Angeles. The evening’s theme will be Moving Images, Telling Stories and the honorees will be award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns along with Karen L. Ishizuka and Robert A. Nakamura, who, among other notable accomplishments, founded JANM’s Frank H. W...

  • National Conferences

    JANM’s national conferences have strived to present transformative programming, presentations, and activities to multigenerational audiences. Each conference delved into historic and contemporary Japanese American experiences—within the context of democracy and social justice—by drawing upon scholarly analysis, community perspectives, and the power of the conference host site. Conversations begun at the conferences h...

  • Collections

    The over 150,000 objects that comprise the JANM permanent collection chronicle the Japanese American experience in its entirety from early immigration to the present. Artifacts related to early immigration to the United States at the turn of the 20th century, early life in Japanese American communities, and the World War II incarceration experience and military service are strengths of the collection.