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  • Ireichō National Tour Launch in Washington, DC

    Feb 18, 2025 - Feb 21, 2025

    The national tour of the Ireichō will launch in Washington DC, where Executive Order 9066 that led to the mass incarceration of the Japanese American community on the Pacific Coast was issued, presented in conjunction with the National Archives and Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History for Day of Remembrance.Tuesday, February 18National Archives 2025 Day of Remembrance program including panel discussion a...

  • JANM Presents Pop-Up Exhibition at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts on June 7, 2023

    May 26, 2023

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will bring three innovative exhibitions to the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa as part of a one-day pop-up exhibition in connection with that evening’s performance of Defining Courage on Wednesday, June 7, 2023. The pop-up exhibition will be free and open to the public from 11 a.m.– 4 p.m. The pop-up will include: The Interactive StoryF...

  • Exhibition Tour of BeHere / 1942 with artist Masaki Fujihata

    May 19, 2022

    FREE Join Masaki Fujihata, the visionary Japanese media artist behind BeHere / 1942: A New Lens on the Japanese American Incarceration, for a guided tour of JANM’s newest exhibition. Photo credit: Jim Conner

  • 2016 Natsumatsuri Family Festival

    Aug 13, 2016

    FREE ALL DAY! Join us for our annual summer celebration featuring Japanese and Japanese American performances, crafts, and activities. Musical performances by LA Matsuri Taiko, Common Souls, and Shin Kawasaki Basic taiko drumming and bon odori dance lessons Free samples of saataa andaagii (Okinawan deep-fried pastries) JANM Members Only reserved seating and express lines …and so much more...

  • Beyond the Bad and the Ugly: Stereotypes and Asian American Pop Culture - A Summit

    Mar 23, 2013

    Tickets for the event can be purchased here. JANM MEMBERS: Members receive $5 off of their tickets! Please contact agiffen@janm.org for your discount code. In 1914, Sessue Hayakawa became the first Asian American actor to break through on the silver screen, appearing in movie pioneer Thomas Ince’s silent classic The Typhoon, and launching a career as one of the most popular and well-paid stars in the nascent Ho...

  • Community Day of Remembrance

    Feb 16, 2013

    Pay-what-you-can! 2013 Day of Remembrance will mark the 71st Anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066, which led to the unlawful forced removal, and unconstitutional mass incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans. The 2013 Day of Remembrance will explore the theme, "The 25th Anniversary of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988: Our Struggle, Our Perseverance, Our Commitment" will celebrate the 25th anniversa...

  • CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAYS AT THE JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM

    Dec 03, 2012

    The Japanese American National Museum celebrates the holiday season with two back-to-back Saturdays full of family fun. On Saturday, December 8, from 11AM to 4 PM, JANM presents its popular on-going series, Target Free Family Saturdays. Activities for the whole family include creating a fruit leather pouch, a colorful garland, an origami lantern, and a mini snow globe, plus kids of all ages can decorate holiday coo...

  • A Time of Innocence

    Oct 20, 2007

    Author Sanae Kawaguchi in conversation with Art Hansen Published in Japan in 2005, A Time of Innocence tells the poignant story of Japanese-American families who escaped the West Coast during the brief period of "voluntary evacuation" and made their dangerous way into the interior to avoid confinement in the government camps. This fictional account of the families' hardships, travails, and triumphs captures an emoti...

  • Day of Remembrance

    Feb 16, 2002

    Day of Remembrance (DOR) is the Japanese American community's annual commemoration of President Roosevelt's signing of Executive Order 9066 and the World War II exclusion and incarceration of Japanese Americans and Japanese Latin Americans. This year's observance is particularly noteworthy, as 2002 marks the 60th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066. The National Museum, NCRR, the Pacific Southwest Dist...

  • Japanese American National Museum To Feature Paintings By Henry Sugimoto In First Retrospective Exhibition

    Mar 24, 2001

    The first retrospective exhibition of paintings by Henry Sugimoto (1900-1990) will open on March 24, 2001 at the Japanese American National Museum in the heart of the Little Tokyo Historic District in Los Angeles. Henry Sugimoto: Painting an American Experience is a survey of Sugimoto’s paintings as well as an examination of the Japanese American experience as seen through the work of an artist whose life and art w...