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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...

  • JANM Mourns the Passing of Dr. Keith Terasaki

    Jan 22, 2025

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) mourns the passing of Dr. Keith Terasaki, a longtime supporter of JANM and many other educational and cultural institutions. A graduate of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Dr. Terasaki trained at the Los Angeles County Hospital and Stanford University. His distinguished career in medicine included work as an Interventional Radiologist at the K...

  • 2025 DOR Los Angeles Save the Date Press Release

    Jan 07, 2025

    LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Day of Remembrance (DOR) Committee announced that the annual DOR will be held on Saturday, February 15, 2025, at 2:00pm. This year we will move from our usual host location at the Japanese American National Museum to LA Hompa Hongwanji Buddhist Temple or “Nishi Betsuin” (815 1st St). DOR commemorates the signing of Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, by President Franklin D. Roose...

  • Book Launch—Giant Robot: Thirty Years of Defining Asian-American Pop Culture

    Oct 25, 2024

    Celebrate the release of a new book that dives deep into the pop culture phenomenon of Giant Robot. Author and Giant Robot founder, Eric Nakamura, will be joined by special guests Randall Park, Martin Wong, and Daniel Wu to talk about the zines, stores, exhibitions, and more that redefined what it means to be Asian American. About the bookGiant Robot: Thirty Years of Defining Asian-American Pop Culture features the b...

  • 2024 JACSC Education Conference

    Oct 04, 2024 - Oct 06, 2024

    Echoes of Resilience: Imagining the Possible in Preserving Japanese American Heritage2024 Japanese American Confinement Sites Consortium Education ConferenceThis annual event brings together scholars, activists, and community members dedicated to preserving and educating about the history of Japanese American incarceration during WWII. Highlights include a panel on the Irei: National Monument, programmed in collabora...

  • Democracy Center Announces New Podcast and Art Series with Gratitude Blooming

    Jul 06, 2023

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The National Center for the Preservation of Democracy (Democracy Center) in partnership with Gratitude Blooming will launch the Empathy and Democracy podcast and pop-up art series on July 15, 2023 from 4 p.m.–6:30 p.m. Admission to the pop-up art exhibit is free. Visitors coming for KCRW Summer Nights can also visit the pop-up at the Democracy Center. Tickets for the live podcast are $20 for general...

  • JANM Receives Over $5.4 Million in Major Foundation, Corporate, and Government Support in 2022

    Jan 11, 2023

    LOS ANGELES, CA – In 2022, the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) received over $5.4 million in grants from twenty-three major foundation, corporate, and government agencies. The Perenchio Foundation awarded $2,550,000, to JANM, which will provide crucial support for the Museum as a whole, allow the Museum to continue to tell the stories of Japanese Americans in innovative, educational, and eye-opening ways ...

  • 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...

  • 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...