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  • Pioneers to Prodigy: Pioneering Asian Dancers on Film

    Sep 08, 2024

    Discover the power of dance with screenings of the documentaries Michio Ito Pioneering Dancer-Choreographer (2012, 22 minutes) and Ten Times Better (2024, 30 minutes) and a short film featuring the Music Center’s Spotlight Award Winner, Lex Ishimoto. Jennifer Lin, director of Ten Times Better, will be joined in conversation with Nancy Kwan, star of the film version of Flower Drum Song. Learn about the dancers who bro...

  • Author Conversation—A Rebel’s Outcry: Biography of Issei Civil Rights Leader Sei Fujii

    Sep 03, 2022

    FREE In Person RSVP Virtual RSVP Celebrate the release of the award-winning biography of civil rights leader, Sei Fujii, with a special 10th anniversary screening of the short film Lil Tokyo Reporter and a discussion around the biography. The conversation will include filmmaker and publisher Jeffrey Gee Chin and Academy Award-winner Chris Tashima, and actress Keiko Agena. This program is prese...

  • On the Passing of Lane Ryo Hirabayashi

    Aug 25, 2020

    Los Angeles, CA – The leadership, staff and volunteers of the Japanese American National Museum were deeply saddened by the recent passing of Dr. Lane Ryo Hirabayashi. Having served as the George and Sakaye Aratani Professor of the Japanese American Incarceration, Redress and Community and as the chair of the Asian American Studies Department at UCLA from 2006 until his retirement in 2017, Lane was respected for his ...

  • JUDITH HILL SET TO PERFORM AT JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM’S GALA DINNER

    Mar 22, 2018

    Los Angeles, CA—Singer-songwriter Judith Hill, along with her musician parents, Michiko and Pee Wee Hill, will be the featured performers at the Japanese American National Museum’s Gala Dinner and Silent Auction on April 21, 2018, at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Suites, Los Angeles. Judith Hill has been a background singer for such legends as Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Ringo Starr, and the late Michael Jac...

  • 2017 Natsumatsuri Family Festival

    Aug 19, 2017

    FREE ALL DAY Join us for our annual summer celebration featuring Japanese and Japanese American performances, crafts, and activities. Musical performances Free souvenir photos at our happi coat photo booth Free samples of saataa andaagii (Okinawan deep-fried pastries) Basic taiko drumming lessons Fun crafts including origami and the ever-popular Natsumatsuri paper hats JANM Members ...

  • JANM Free Family Days: Incredible Inks

    Nov 12, 2016

    FREE ALL DAY In conjunction with our current exhibition Tatau: Marks of Polynesia, join us for a day of crafts, workshops, and performances that celebrate Polynesian culture and the art of tattoos. ALL DAY ACTIVITIES: Get a cool custom JANM temporary tattoo. Try designing your own tattoos and motifs using traditional Samoan techniques such as the upeti board. Learn to fold origami sharks wi...

  • GEORGE TAKEI DONATES PERSONAL COLLECTION TO JANM

    Sep 28, 2016

    Pioneering actor and passionate civil rights activist George Takei has donated his personal collection, which represents the many facets of his life and career, to the Japanese American National Museum. The collection will serve as the foundation of a new exhibition that will open at the museum in March 2017, titled New Frontiers: The Many Worlds of George Takei. The George Takei Collection features a wide ra...

  • JANM BEGINS WORK ON NATIONAL PARK SERVICE-FUNDED PROJECTS

    Sep 12, 2016

    Utilizing a total of more than $115,000 from two National Park Service Japanese American Confinement Sites grants for 2016, the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) has begun conservation work on the Allen Hendershott Eaton Collection of art and artifacts, and will soon begin digitization of the Gihachi and Tsugio Yamashita Collection for an interactive website that chronicles one family’s journeys during World...

  • MUSEUM'S 13TH SUMMER FESTIVAL TO FEATURE CHADO TEA TASTINGS, CONCERT, FAMILY ACTIVITIES AUG. 13-14

    Aug 09, 2011

    The Japanese American National Museum celebrates its 13th Annual Summer Festival on the Courtyard with the Los Angeles Tea Festival by Chado Tea Room, free hands-on arts and crafts activities for families, a ticketed concert featuring traditional Japanese folk songs, and fun features related to its latest exhibition, Year of the Rabbit: Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo, on Saturday, August 13, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tra...

  • AUTHOR KAREN YAMASHITA TO DISCUSS LATEST BOOK, 'I HOTEL', ON SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18

    Sep 08, 2010

    Award-winning writer and novelist Karen Tei Yamashita will read from and discuss her latest book, I Hotel, at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo on Saturday, September 18, beginning at 2 p.m. Yamashita, who came to prominence with her novel, Through the Arc of the Rain Forest (1990), is also author of Brazil-Maru (1992), Tropic of Orange (1997) and Circle K Cycles (2001). Her latest book is orga...