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  • Live Painting by Giorgiko

    Sep 04, 2024 - Sep 06, 2024

    Witness creativity in action as the artist duo Giorgiko (Darren Inouye and Trisha Inouye) paint a mural on the gallery walls in Giant Robot Biennale 5, the art exhibition that celebrates the ethos of Giant Robot—a staple of Asian American alternative pop culture and an influential brand encompassing pop art, skateboard, comic book, graphic arts, and vinyl toy culture. Giorgiko’s mural will be on view through January ...

  • JANM CURRENTLY ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR SUMMER 2022 NEH WORKSHOPS

    Nov 19, 2021

    LOS ANGELES - The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) is currently accepting applications for Landmarks of American History and Culture educator workshops funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Postponed one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, JANM looks forward to welcoming educators in the summer of 2022. NEH’s Landmarks of American History and Culture program gives K-12 edu...

  • THE JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM AWARDED NATIONAL PARK SERVICE GRANT TO EXPAND EXHIBITION OF THE EATON COLLECTION OF ART AND ARTIFACTS

    Nov 16, 2021

    LOS ANGELES - The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) has been awarded a grant of $245,581 from the US Department of the Interior, National Park Service (NPS) through the Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program (JACS). This grant will fund a comprehensive exhibition of the Allen Hendershott Eaton Collection and its legacy at JANM in 2022, followed by travel to four other U.S. museums. This JACS ...

  • STATEMENT: THE JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM IS HONORED TO RECEIVE AWARD FROM AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS-LA FOR PAVILION DESIGNED BY GYO OBATA OF HOK

    Oct 29, 2021

    LOS ANGELES - The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) is honored to receive the Twenty-Five Year Award from the American Institute of Architects Los Angeles (AIALA) for the Pavilion designed by famed architect Gyo Obata of HOK, a global design and architecture firm. AIALA described its Twenty-Five Year Award as recognition bestowed upon an architectural design of “enduring significance” for a project “that ha...

  • JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM MOURNS THE PASSING OF BRUCE T. KAJI

    Nov 01, 2017

    Los Angeles, CA—The Japanese American National Museum is deeply saddened by the death of the museum’s founding president, Bruce Teruo Kaji. He was 91. Earlier this year, JANM presented Bruce with its Legacy Award, established to recognize individuals who have made a lasting contribution to the museum’s institutional legacy and helped distinguish the museum as a unique, vital, and valuable community resource. Kaji ...

  • Statement regarding Rago auction of Japanese American artifacts

    Apr 15, 2015

    The Japanese American National Museum is concerned about the upcoming auction of historical art and artifacts. Although not all the facts are known about this particular auction, it is our hope that these Japanese American objects, and others like them, find their way to cultural institutions committed to conserving and sharing them with the wider community. Such items tell an important story for all Americans abou...

  • NATIONAL MUSEUM MARKS PASSING OF TRUSTEE WILLIAM 'MO' MARUMOTO

    Nov 26, 2008

    The leadership of the Japanese American National Museum expressed its sadness at the passing of long-time Board Trustee William "Mo" Marumoto, who died in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, November 25, 2008. The son of Issei immigrant parents, Marumoto, along with his family, was unconstitutionally incarcerated in a domestic concentration camp at Gila River, Arizona, by the U.S. government during World War II. A gradua...

  • PANEL TO RECALL, DISCUSS RENDITION OF JAPANESE LATIN AMERICANS

    Oct 18, 2008

    A panel discussion about the World War II rendition of Japanese Latin Americans and their continuing struggle for redress from the US government will be presented at a special public program set for Saturday, Oct. 25, 2-4pm, at the Japanese American National Museum (369 East First St.) in Little Tokyo. The program, "World War II Rendition of Japanese Latin Americans," is part of the on-going National Museum serie...

  • Living Flowers: Ohara School of Ikebana

    Aug 24, 2008

    This program highlights the art of Ohara School of Ikebana Los Angeles Chapter, featured in Living Flowers: Ikebana and Contemporary Art.

  • KIKUMURA YANO NAMED PRESIDENT OF JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM

    Jun 28, 2008

    The Board of Trustees for the Japanese American National Museum announced that National Museum Chief Executive Officer Akemi Kikumura Yano, Ph.D. will also assume the position of Museum President as of July 1, 2008, the beginning of the new fiscal year. Kikumura Yano was named CEO for the National Museum in February of this year. She succeeded Irene Hirano, who formerly held the titles of CEO and President and gui...