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JANM’s Pavilion is closed for renovation and will reopen in late 2026. While the museum and store are closed, join us for programs and events on our Little Tokyo campus, throughout Southern California, and beyond. 

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  • Glenn Kaino: Aki’s Market Opens June 30, 2023

    Jun 26, 2023

    WHAT: Join JANM for the opening of Aki’s Market, a uniquely personal exhibition featuring new work by acclaimed multimedia artist and filmmaker Glenn Akira Kaino. Visitors can immerse themselves in the virtual reality world of the small neighborhood market in East Los Angeles and explore a space of collective memory where the archival bleeds into the imaginary and the most advanced technology serves the most persona...

  • Delicious Little Tokyo 2023: Shib Sibs Book Signing

    Jun 24, 2023

    FREE Maia and Alex Shibutani—U.S. Olympians and published authors—will be signing copies of their books Amazing: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Who Inspire Us All and Kudo Kids series. Books will be available to purchase on the day of the event or you can order in advance from the JANM Store. Delicious Little Tokyo celebrates the legacy businesses of Little Tokyo! Learn more about all the activ...

  • Nima Voices: Episode 13—Alden Hayashi

    Jun 20, 2023

    FREE Discover Nikkei is JANM’s community-based web project sharing stories and the experiences of Nikkei around the world. “Nima” are members of the Discover Nikkei online community. Hailing from all around the world, they each bring unique experiences and perspectives to the site’s rich archive of stories. Nima Voices is an interview series where we uplift our Nima through brief, but enlightening, intervie...

  • From Barbed Wire to Boogie Woogie

    Jun 17, 2023

    Celebrate the resilience of a community in struggle through personal storytelling, history, and swing music and dance!Discover what it was like to be a young person in camp, explore how jazz and big band music impacted the youth in America’s concentration camps, and learn how to swing dance in this two-part program.

  • 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...

  • Sansei Rocker: Behind the Curtain—June 11

    Jun 11, 2023

    Available tickets are sold out. Please click the following link to sign up for the waitlist and we will notify you if space becomes available. Waitlist Travel back in time to the Sansei Dance Party Era in Los Angeles during the ’60s and ’70s through live music and storytelling! Written and produced by Harry Manaka, author of Chronicles of a Sansei Rocker, former owner of the Baby Lion Supper Club, and leader ...

  • Sansei Rocker: Behind the Curtain—June 10

    Jun 10, 2023

    SECTION B TICKETS AVAILABLE. BUY TICKETS Travel back in time to the Sansei Dance Party Era in Los Angeles during the ’60s and ’70s through live music and storytelling! Written and produced by Harry Manaka, author of Chronicles of a Sansei Rocker, former owner of the Baby Lion Supper Club, and leader of Somethin’ Else, this immersive performance combines the classic tunes of the Sansei Dance Party Era with ill...

  • Defining Courage

    Jun 07, 2023

    ONE NIGHT ONLY! Wednesday, June 7 at 7 p.m. at the Segerstrom Concert Hall. Defining Courage is a journey into the legacy of the Nisei Soldier, Americans of Japanese ancestry who served in the segregated military units of the 100th IB, 442nd RCT, MIS, and 522nd FAB. Considered the greatest fighting units in American military history, most have never heard their extraordinary stories. Join Emmy Award-winning f...

  • JANM Extends the Ireichō to December 1, 2024

    Jun 08, 2023

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) has extended the viewing and stamping of the Ireichō, the sacred book that records—for the first time ever—the names of over 125,000 persons of Japanese ancestry who were unjustly imprisoned in US Army, Department of Justice, and War Relocation Authority camps during World War II, to December 1, 2024. Reservations are required and can be made online at ja...

  • JANM Pop-Up at the Segerstrom

    Jun 07, 2023

    As co-presenter of Defining Courage, JANM brings select groundbreaking exhibitions to Orange County! EXPLORE THESE FREE POP-UP EXHIBITIONS The Interactive Storyfile of Lawson Iichiro Sakai—Use AI to converse with 442nd Regimental Combat Team veteran Lawson Iichiro Sakai (1924-2020). A Life in Pieces: The Diary and Letters of Stanley Hayami—Explore a young teen’s correspondence and drawings created in the...