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  • JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM STATEMENT IN RESPONSE TO VIOLENCE AND RACISM IN CHARLOTTESVILLE

    Aug 14, 2017

    Los Angeles, CA—The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) denounces the violence that recently took place in Charlottesville, Virginia, sparked by white supremacists who promote hate based on racism and bigotry. We mourn the three people who lost their lives and send hopes for speedy recoveries to those injured as they stood up for the real values of the United States and its diversity. “As an institution, we s...

  • EPFC Filmcicle Presents Race and Space in Los Angeles VI

    Aug 10, 2017

    FREE The latest installment of Echo Park Film Center’s Race and Space in Los Angeles screening series focuses on the city’s Asian Pacific Islander American (APIA) community. The evening will begin with a USC student-made production, The Challenge (1957, Claude Bache), which examines the unlawful incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II from an assimilationist perspective put forth by the Japanes...

  • "Common Ground" Exhibition Tour

    Aug 05, 2017

    Tour the ongoing exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community with JANM’s knowledgeable docents. Included with museum admission.

  • "Moving Day"

    Aug 01, 2017 - Aug 11, 2017

    March 23 – August 11, 2017 Daily from sunset to midnight In conjunction with the exhibition Instructions to All Persons: Reflections on Executive Order 9066, JANM presents Moving Day, an outdoor public art installation. The work consists of a series of projections of the Civilian Exclusion Orders that were publicly posted during World War II to inform persons of Japanese ancestry of their impending forced removal...

  • JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM RECEIVES TWO GRANTS FOR 2017 FROM NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

    Jul 31, 2017

    Los Angeles, CA The Japanese American National Museum has been awarded over $427,000 in National Park Service Japanese American Confinement Sites grants for 2017. The funds will support two projects—digitization of some of JANM’s moving image holdings and the development of a travelling exhibition featuring works from the museum’s Allen Hendershott Eaton Collection of art and artifacts made by Japanese Americans i...

  • AKEMI KIKUMURA YANO DECIDES TO STEP DOWN AS PRESIDENT/CEO OF JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM

    Jul 01, 2011

    The Board of Trustees of the Japanese American National Museum announced today that the Museum's President and Chief Executive Officer Akemi Kikumura Yano, Ph.D., has decided to step down from her current position. The Board also announced it will conduct a national search for her successor. Dr. Yano has been in discussions with the Board of Trustees of the Japanese American National Museum about her desire to ste...

  • 'VANISHED: LOMPOC'S JAPANESE' AUTHOR TO DISCUSS STORY OF FARMING COMMUNITY

    Jun 15, 2011

    Author John V. McReynolds will discuss his book, Vanished: Lompoc’s Japanese: Only Two of 100 Families Returned at a public program at the Japanese American National Museum on Saturday, June 18, beginning at 2 p.m. During World War II, the U.S. government unconstitutionally forced people of Japanese ancestry to leave their homes and businesses on the West Coast and thousands ended up living in domestic concentrati...

  • MIXED ROOTS FESTIVAL TO PRESENT LOVING DAY PRIZE TO PLAYWRIGHT HOUSTON, SCHOLAR SPICKARD JUNE 11

    Jun 10, 2011

    The 4th Annual Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival, a free public event targeting the growing population of multi-racial, multicultural individuals and families, is set for June 11 and 12 at the Japanese American National Museum with a full schedule of film screenings, workshops, readings and live performances, highlighted by the largest West Coast party marking Loving Day, the anniversary of the Supreme Court decis...

  • 'TAKING IT TO THE STREETS' THEME FOR TARGET FREE FAMILY SATURDAY EVENT AT NATIONAL MUSEUM JUNE 11

    Jun 08, 2011

    The Japanese American National Museum will hold another free event as part of its popular series, Target Free Family Saturday, with the theme, "Taking It to the Streets", on Saturday, June 11, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the National Museum’s facility in Little Tokyo. The event is free and open to the public. Target Free Family Saturday events include presentations by different performers and experts and hands-on ar...

  • PLAY READING FOR 'ALL THAT REMAINS' SET FOR NATIONAL MUSEUM ON JUNE 4

    Jun 01, 2011

    A reading of Mona Z. Smith’s play "All That Remains", which tells the tale of a young Japanese American man uncovering the story of his late father, who fought as a member of the famed all-Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team during World War II, will be presented at the Japanese American National Museum on Saturday, June 4, beginning at 2 p.m. The play is set in October of 1969 in the Vosges forest on the French-Ge...