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  • Members Only Meet-and-Greet with Naomi Hirahara

    Mar 21, 2026

    Meet Edgar Award-winning author Naomi Hirahara during an exclusive conversation and pre-event book signing of her new book, Crown City, for JANM Members.Not a current Member? JOIN NOWMembers who attend will also receive early access to seating for the 2 p.m. JANM Book Club event. We request that you RSVP separately for that program here. Crown City will be released on February 17, 2026 and will be available in the ...

  • JANM Mourns the Passing of Marsha Aizumi

    Dec 26, 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 Marsha Aizumi. She was a beloved community leader, advocate, and founder of Okaeri, a program of the Little Tokyo Service Center. Okaeri means “welcome home” in Japanese and the program ...

  • JANM Mourns the Passing of Barbara Keimi

    Dec 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 Barbara Keimi. She and her husband, Harold “Hal” Keimi, began volunteering at JANM nearly thirty-four years ago—before JANM opened its doors to the public in its Historic Building in 199...

  • 「ディスカバー・ニッケイ」フェス：日系グローバル・コミュニティー20周年記念

    Feb 08, 2025

    ディスカバー・ニッケイは、サイト開設20周年を記念して、ニッケイ人の家族史をテーマにした終日イベントを開催します。「ディスカバー・ニッケイ」は、ニッケイ人のアイデンティティや文化、歴史を紹介する全米日系人博物館のグローバル＆コミュニティ・プロジェクトです。このイベントは、1年間にわたる20周年記念イベントの幕開けとなります。コミュニティフェア（12 p.m.–3 p.m.）：ニッケイ団体インフォブース、クラフト、抽選会、スタンプラリー（無料、事前登録を推奨しています）家族史ワークショップ（12 p.m.–3 p.m.）： ジャーナリング、ビデオライフヒストリーインタビュー、ニッケイ家系図入門、思い出の品々の保存、詩のワークショップ、シニアの思い出の記録ニッケイ家族史・パネルディスカッション（3:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m.）： 【モデレーター】ナオミ・ヒラハラ；【パネリスト】ミチ・ホンマ（米国）、アンドリュー・ハセガワ（...

  • 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...

  • Hinamatsuri Workshop: "Kokeshi" Doll Art with Mari Inukai

    Mar 03, 2018

    SOLD OUT In celebration of Hinamatsuri (Girls’ Day), paint your own prince and princess kokeshi doll set with artist Mari Inukai. Bring pictures of your favorite flowers and textile samples as reference material to paint your doll’s kimono. All generations welcome! Limited to 10 participants, however, to encourage collaboration, guests who wish to work together may sign up as a single participant; each particip...

  • 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...