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JANM’s Pavilion is closed for renovation and will reopen in late 2026. While the museum and store are closed, join us for programs and events on our Little Tokyo campus, throughout Southern California, and beyond. 

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  • JANM Decries Creation of New US Concentration Camps and Surge in Mass Incarceration

    Jul 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) strongly denounces the immigration detention facility dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” in Florida, the nearly $150 billion budget for national defense and deportations that is included in H.R. 1, and the Administr...

  • JANM Mourns the Passing of Legendary Filmmaker Robert A. Nakamura

    Jun 23, 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 Robert A. Nakamura. Known to generations of artists as “the Godfather of Asian American media,” he was a legendary photographer, filmmaker, and activist who was on the original advisory ...

  • JANM and the Democracy Center Host June 5 Town Hall with California Attorney General Rob Bonta

    May 29, 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)’s Daniel K. Inouye National Center for the Preservation of Democracy (Democracy Center) will host Our Fragile Democracy: The Role of State Attorneys General in Upholding the Law in Times of Crisis from 2 p.m...

  • 2025 Benefit & Online Auction

    Thank you to everyone who joined us in person or via livestream for JANM’s 2025 Benefit! On behalf of the Board, staff, and volunteers, thank you to our sponsors and to everyone who helped make our hybrid fundraiser such a success. Your generous support and faith in our mission means so much to us. Thank you for lifting us up with your generosity and unwavering commitment to JANM.

  • 2025 Los Angeles Day of Remembrance

    Feb 15, 2025

    The annual Los Angeles Day of Remembrance commemorates the signing of Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Executive Order 9066 authorized the US military to forcibly remove persons of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast and set into motion their incarceration into concentration camps during World War II. During JANM on the Go we are pleased to partner with the Los Angeles ...

  • 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...

  • 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...