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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 Digital Film Festival: Dodgers: Brotherhood of the Game Q&A

    Jul 10, 2020

    FREE From their original roots in Brooklyn to today’s home in Los Angeles, the Dodgers are trailblazers in the world of sports, on and off the field. The franchise is dedicated to supporting a culture of winning baseball, providing a first-class, family-friendly experience at Dodger Stadium and maintaining strong partnerships in the community. In 2014, JANM collaborated with the Los Angeles Dodgers and Pete...

  • The Community Day of Remembrance

    Feb 21, 2009

    FREE ALL DAY! The Day of Remembrance is held each year to commemorate President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's signing of Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942. EO 9066 authorized the unconstitutional forced removal of 120,000 Japanese Americans from the west coast and Hawai'i during World War II. Mass incarceration of Japanese Americans was accepted by the majority of US Citizens because of the racial prejud...

  • The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa

    Mar 10, 2007 - May 27, 2007

    This exhibition represents a retrospective of this Nisei artist's enduring and richly varied career. Born on a truck farm in Southern California, Asawa was incarcerated at Rohwer concentration camp in Arkansas during World War II. In the 1940s, she attended Black Mountain College, the famous experimental art school in North Carolina. The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa begins with her earliest sculptures, drawings, and pa...

  • "Nights of Fire, Nights of Rain" by Amy Uyematsu

    Mar 22, 1998

    Poet Amy Uyematsu will read from her latest book of poems, Nights of Fire, Nights of Rain, with musical accompaniment by bass musician, Taiji Miyagawa. This new collection addresses living in Los Angeles in the mid-1990s—from the riots and violence of the city, to fires and other natural disasters. Free with Museum admission. Reservations suggested by March 17.

  • Conversations with the Finding Family Stories Artists

    Mar 12, 1998

    Panel Discussion at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Featuring: Joyce Dallal, Eddy Kurushima, and Judith Lowry Artists Joyce Dallal, Eddy Kurushima, and Judith Lowry will talk about their work, their inspirations, and the role of art in defining cultural communities. Free.

  • Twelfth Annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film & Video Festival

    May 15, 1997 - May 22, 1997

    Director’s Guild of America Theater, Laemmle’s Sunset Five Theater, Los Angeles First established in 1983 by Visual Communications, the nation’s oldest Asian Pacific American media arts center, the Los Angeles Asian Pacific & Video Festival is Southern California’s premier showcase of cinematic works by and about Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.

  • Taste of Kona Coffee

    Feb 06, 1997

    Kona Coffee Story Exhibit Series Panel Discussion Featuring Ed Sakamoto, Mako, and East West Players Join award-winning playwright Ed Sakamoto (Aloha Las Vegas), director Mako (founding artistic director of East West Players), and cast members of Taste of Kona Coffee for a lively panel discussion. The play runs from January 30 through February 9, 1997 at East West Players. This comedy-drama depicts the life of ...

  • TO APPLY—2024 NEH Landmarks Little Tokyo Workshop

    Instructions for how to apply for “Little Tokyo: How History Shapes a Community Across Generations," an NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture workshop for teachers.

  • TO APPLY—2025 NEH Landmarks Little Tokyo Workshop

    Instructions for how to apply for “Little Tokyo: How History Shapes a Community Across Generations," an NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture workshop for teachers.