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  • JANM Questions US Supreme Court’s Decision to Lift Restrictions on Race-Based Immigration Stops in the Los Angeles Area

    Sep 09, 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) is deeply troubled by the US Supreme Court’s decision to lift restrictions on immigration stops in the greater Los Angeles area. The Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision lifted a restraining order from US District Ju...

  • JANM Decries Remarks by Czech President Petr Pavel Minimizing the Incarceration of Japanese Americans

    Jun 16, 2023

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) decries the recent comments by Czech President Petr Pavel that minimized the incarceration of people of Japanese descent in the US during World War II and suggested that Russians living abroad today should be subjected to similar treatment. In an interview with Radio Free Europe on Thursday, Pavel said that Russian nationals living abroad should be “m...

  • Premiere of the Remastered HITO HATA: RAISE THE BANNER

    Oct 22, 2022

    FREE Join us for the premiere of a remastered version of HITO HATA: RAISE THE BANNER (4k Restoration), a groundbreaking film by Robert A. Nakamura and Duane Kubo that had its World Premiere more than 40 years ago. A talkback with the filmmaking team will follow the screening. The 4k Restoration is funded by the National Film Preservation Foundation, with additional support from funders of the VC Archives (Arata...

  • JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM’S NATSUMATSURI FAMILY FESTIVAL OFFERS FREE FUN FOR ALL

    Jul 31, 2018

    Los Angeles, CA—The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will present its annual Natsumatsuri Family Festival on Saturday, August 18, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission to the summer celebration featuring Japanese and Japanese American performances, crafts, and activities is free. Highlights of the day will include performances by San Fernando Valley Taiko and TAIKOPROJECT, a hula performance, three traditional ...

  • NEW EXHIBITION AT JANM EXPLORES REFUGEE EXPERIENCE THROUGH CARRIED OBJECTS

    May 10, 2018

    Los Angeles, CA—What We Carried: Fragments & Memories from Iraq & Syria, a traveling exhibition that shares poignant narratives from Iraqi and Syrian immigrants to the United States, will open at the Japanese American National Museum on Saturday, May 19, 2018. The exhibition’s theme echoes one found in discussions of the Japanese American incarceration during World War II, when those being forcibly removed were allow...

  • NEW EXHIBITION EXPLORING HAPA IDENTITY TO OPEN AT JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM

    Mar 09, 2018

    Los Angeles, CA—hapa.me – 15 years of the hapa project, a new exhibition by artist Kip Fulbeck, will open at the Japanese American National Museum on Saturday, April 7 and remain on view through October 28, 2018. The installation pairs photographs from Fulbeck’s groundbreaking 2006 exhibition, titled kip fulbeck: part Asian, 100% hapa, with new portraits of the same individuals. The photographs are accompanied by eac...

  • OUTDOOR CONCERT AND "STAR TREK VI" MOVIE SCREENING SET FOR JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM

    Jun 29, 2017

    Los Angeles, CA Actor and activist George Takei will welcome attendees to an outdoor screening of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, in which he stars as Captain Hikaru Sulu, commander of the USS Excelsior, at the Japanese American National Museum on Thursday, July 27, 2017. The movie will be preceded by a short concert performance by Tim Russ Crew, a pop-rock band fronted by fellow Star Trek actor Tim Russ. ...

  • MUSEUM, IA&A TO PREMIERE 'FOLDING PAPER' EXHIBITION MARCH 10

    Jan 17, 2012

    The Japanese American National Museum is pleased to announce it will premiere the new exhibition Folding Paper: The Infinite Possibilities of Origami, an engaging, thought-provoking, and interdisciplinary look at the modern advances of origami through contemporary artworks, inventions, and videos. Folding Paper, organized in partnership with International Arts & Artists (IA&A), is on view at the National Museum begin...

  • LITTLE TOKYO DESIGN WEEKS TO INSTALL 'ULTRA EXPO' SHOW AT NATIONAL MUSEUM JULY 14-17

    Jun 21, 2011

    Explore the Little Tokyo Design Week (LTDW) exhibit Ultra Expo at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) and also visit the National Museum’s latest exhibition, Year of the Rabbit: Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo, during Little Tokyo Design Week from July 14 to July 17. Ultra Expo re-creates the Osaka Exposition of 1970 and seeks to go beyond conventional exhibition formats to create an unorthodox way of displayi...

  • DOCUMENTARY ON AUTHOR MICHI WEGLYN TO BE SCREENED SUNDAY, NOV. 7 AT MUSEUM

    Nov 02, 2010

    The documentary, "Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn", which profiles the life of a Japanese American woman who became a successful costume designer, but left her mark as the author of a landmark book on the World War II mass incarceration of thousands of people of Japanese ancestry, will be screened at the Japanese American National Museum on Sunday, November 7, beginning at 2 p.m. Weglyn was a successful desig...