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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...

  • JANM Decries Remarks by Czech President Petr Pavel Minimizing the Incarceration of Japanese Americans

    Jun 16, 2023

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) decries the recent comments by Czech President Petr Pavel that minimized the incarceration of people of Japanese descent in the US during World War II and suggested that Russians living abroad today should be subjected to similar treatment. In an interview with Radio Free Europe on Thursday, Pavel said that Russian nationals living abroad should be “m...

  • A Celebration of Bronzeville’s Finale Club

    Oct 11, 2020

    FREE In March 1946, an important moment in jazz history took place when Miles Davis and Charlie Parker, two all-time jazz greats, performed together at the Finale Club in Bronzeville/Little Tokyo. During World War II, forced removal of Japanese Americans into concentration camps left Little Tokyo largely empty. African Americans coming West for defense jobs moved into Little Tokyo—one of the only neighborhoods...

  • ZÓCALO—Will California Pick the Next President?

    May 15, 2019

    A Zócalo/UCLA Downtown Event at JANM’s National Center for the Preservation of Democracy Moderated by Madeleine Brand, Host, KCRW’s "Press Play" When it comes to picking the country’s presidents, the richest and most populous state hasn’t much mattered. Because their primaries are held earlier and they are swing states in the general election, smaller and colder places—like New Hampshire, I...

  • ZÓCALO—How Does Community Conflict Turn Into Genocide?

    May 02, 2019

    The Ninth Annual Zócalo Book Prize Lecture at JANM’s National Center for the Preservation of Democracy History often blames genocide solely on murderous demagogues and military campaigns. But more often than not, the forces that unleash ethnic cleansing arise slowly and during peacetime, and stem from seemingly everyday interactions in places that are home to diverse peoples. What sorts of exchanges...

  • "KAIJU VS HEROES" BATTLES ON AT JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM

    Feb 21, 2019

    Los Angeles, CA—Kaiju vs Heroes: Mark Nagata’s Journey through the World of Japanese Toys, which features hundreds of contemporary and vintage Japanese vinyl toys, has been extended on view at the Japanese American National Museum through July 7, 2019. The exhibition is included in regular admission to the museum. In conjunction with the exhibition’s extension, the museum will host a day-long separately ticketed Kaij...

  • JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM AND THE NIPPON FOUNDATION COLLABORATE ON RESEARCH ABOUT YOUNG NIKKEI AROUND THE WORLD

    Jan 30, 2019

    Los Angeles, CA—The Japanese American National Museum is collaborating with The Nippon Foundation on a large-scale, global research project to learn how young people of Japanese ancestry (Nikkei) experience and express their Japanese heritage. This project, the first of its kind, aims to deepen the understanding of Nikkei communities in the Japanese diaspora, including their differences and similarities, and their ne...

  • JANM OFFERS FREE WEEKDAY ADMISSION FOR LAUSD STUDENTS DURING TEACHER STRIKE

    Jan 15, 2019

    Los Angeles, CA—Beginning today—Tuesday, January 15, 2019—the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will offer free weekday admission to all Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) students and their chaperones for the duration of the United Teachers Los Angeles strike. During the week, JANM is open Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Thursdays from noon to 8 p.m. The museum is closed...

  • Stories of Displacement

    Jul 28, 2018

    FREE In conjunction with What We Carried, stories of displacement as experienced by a variety of communities will be shared. Perspectives will include those of recent Iraqi and Syrian refugees and Japanese Americans incarcerated during WWII. Additional issues we will explore include dehumanization, displacement, resiliency, cross-cultural empathy, overcoming negative stereotypes, and difficulties that communities ...

  • JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM JOINS SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL YOUTH SUMMIT ON FREEDOM SUMMER

    Jan 17, 2014

    Los Angeles – On Wednesday, February 5, 2014, (9 am PST) The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will participate in the National Youth Summit on Freedom Summer, an online outreach program organized by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Coinciding with Digital Learning Day, the event at JANM will link middle and high schools students from across the country in an engaging program centered on...