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  • JANM Decries the Administration’s Racist and Anti-Immigrant Language Against Somali Immigrants

    Dec 03, 2025

    Editors please note: JANM’s Pavilion is closed for renovation; programs will continue on the JANM campus and at other locations at janm.org/OnTheGo. LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) decries the Administration’s racist and anti-immigrant language towards Somali immigrants in the US and the planned immigration enforcement operation targeting Somali immigrants in Minnesota. This week, the P...

  • JANM Mourns the Passing of Trustee Robert “Bob” Davies Volk

    Sep 22, 2025

    Editors please note: JANM’s Pavilion is closed for renovation; programs will continue on the JANM campus and at other locations at janm.org/OnTheGo. LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) mourns the passing of former JANM Trustee, Robert “Bob” Davies Volk. He grew up in Los Angeles’s Hancock Park neighborhood and attended Third Street School, John Burroughs Junior High School, and Los Angeles ...

  • 2025 Natsumatsuri Family Festival

    Aug 16, 2025

    Celebrate summer with us at JANM’s Democracy Center and the Norman Y. Mineta Democracy Plaza featuring free cultural performances, crafts, and activities for families and kids of all ages!Cultural performancesStorytime with author and racecar driver Nadine Sachiko HsuFun summer-themed crafts and origamiExclusive activities connected to JANM’s new exhibition, Cruising J-Town: Behind the Wheel of the Nikkei CommunityAn...

  • Glenn Kaino: Aki’s Market

    Jun 30, 2023 - Feb 11, 2024

    Glenn Kaino: Aki’s Market is inspired by Akira and Sachiye Shiraishi’s small neighborhood market (1957–1970) in East Los Angeles. Created by artist Glenn Akira Kaino (Akira’s grandson and namesake), the exhibition explores the transgenerational trauma from the World War II Japanese American incarceration experience through the stories of Kaino, his family, and the community. It is also an interrogation of the America...

  • Augmented Reality Exhibition Places Viewers in Midst of WWII-era Forced Removal of Japanese Americans

    May 02, 2022

    LOS ANGELES, CA – Eighty years ago, during World War II, the U.S. government forcibly removed Japanese Americans from the West Coast, incarcerating 120,000 in concentration camps. This May, an exhibition at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) lets visitors step into those dark days of 1942 through an augmented reality re-creation at the very site where thousands of Japanese Americans living in downtown Los A...

  • Film Screening—"Copyright: Leonard Frank" and "The War Between Us"

    Feb 28, 2016

    In conjunction with Two Views, JANM will screen a short documentary on Leonard Frank and a feature-length drama set against the Japanese Canadian incarceration. Copyright: Leonard Frank tells the story of the great Canadian photographer, who emigrated from Germany at the age of 22. After winning a camera in a lottery, he spent the next 50 years taking pictures of everyday life, landscapes, and industry in Brit...

  • Kip Fulbeck's new book project is MIXED KIDS

    Oct 12, 2008

    Kip Fulbeck's new book project is MIXED KIDS ... a photo portrait book about multiracial/multiethnic kids! We're having an open shoot Sunday, October 12th. Here are the details: MIXED KIDS PHOTO SHOOT / L.A. OPEN CALL This is an open call for mixed kids 12 and under ... multiracial, biracial, mestizo, Hapa, etc. Any ethnic mixture is welcome! Approximately 100 children will be picked for the book. DETA...

  • I/Witness A Photography Workshop for Kids - Part One

    Jul 17, 2004

    Photographer, PAMELA MAYER-SCHOENBERG, teaches youth (ages nine to thirteen) to look beyond everyday objects and explore the meaning and history behind them, especially as it relates to their own community. They will learn the basics of photography and have a week to "bear witness" and take pictures of their neighborhood. Photographs will be developed by the National Museum and participants will select final shots fo...

  • George Hoshida Collection

    (96.117)(97.106) The online collection of George Hoshida (1907–1985) includes 260 drawings and watercolors drawn from his visual diary covering his incarceration for the duration of World War II in the Kilauea Military Camp and Sand Island in Hawai‘i, in Justice Department internment camps at Lordsburg and Santa Fe, New Mexico, and in WRA camps in Jerome, Arkansas and Gila River, Arizona. George Hoshida was born i...

  • Textured Lives - Media

    The exhibition includes four video components produced by the Museum’s award-winning Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center. Watch the videos below. They are also available on a DVD through the JANM Store. Barbara Kawakami: A Textured Life An intimate portrait of the woman who—after growing up on a plantation, working for over three decades as a seamstress, and entering college for the first time at age 53—went on...