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  • JANM Celebrates the Oshogatsu Family Festival on January 11, 2026

    Nov 21, 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) will bring its popular annual Oshogatsu Family Festival to the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center (JACCC) from 11 a.m.–4:30 p.m. on Sunday, January 11, 2026. The 2026 Oshogatsu Family Festival will...

  • JANM Mourns the Passing of Arthur A. Hansen

    Nov 18, 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) mourns the passing of Dr. Arthur A. Hansen. He was professor emeritus of History and Asian American Studies at California State University, Fullerton (CSUF), and was JANM’s senior historian from 2001 through ...

  • JANM Mourns the Passing of George Sugimoto

    Nov 18, 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) mourns the passing of entrepreneur and philanthropist George Sugimoto. Born in Parlier, California, Sugimoto was the youngest of nine children. He and his family were imprisoned at the Gila River concentratio...

  • JANM Mourns the Passing of Nancy Matsui

    Nov 18, 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) mourns the passing of Nancy Matsui, a member of the JANM Board of Governors. After celebrating forty years of service with American Airlines, she retired from her position as the National Account Sales Manage...

  • JANM Book Club: Monster Maker with Debbi Michiko Florence and Mark Nagata

    Nov 15, 2025

    Join author Debbi Michiko Florence and artist Mark Nagata for a special reading of Debbi’s new book Monster Maker: The Strange Creatures of Mark Nagata. Then stick around for a conversation with them moderated by Maria Kwong, JANM’s Director of Retail Enterprise and curator of Kaiji vs Heroes, the exhibition that first connected Debbi to Mark!Monster Maker: The Strange Creatures of Mark Nagata is a biographical accou...

  • Members Only Meet-and-Greet with Debbi Michiko Florence and Mark Nagata

    Nov 15, 2025

    Meet author Debbi Michiko Florence and artist Mark Nagata during an exclusive Members Only conversation and pre-event book signing of the new book, Monster Maker: The Strange Creatures of Mark Nagata.Monster Maker: The Strange Creatures of Mark Nagata is a biographical account of toy designer, painter, illustrator, and collector Mark Nagata. From a young age, Nagata was a fan of many classic comic book series, movies...

  • Japanese American Innovators from ArtCenter’s Transportation Design Program

    Nov 08, 2025

    Join JANM and ArtCenter for a panel that looks at the roles that Japanese American alumni from ArtCenter’s vaunted Transportation Design Program have played in shaping auto design over the last sixty years. The Transportation Design Program has produced generations of influential Japanese American designers that include Bud Sagano and Larry Shinoda (GM) in the 1950s, Tom Matano (Mazda) in the 1970s, Jon Ikeda (Honda/...

  • Defining Courage in Hawaiʻi

    Nov 08, 2025 - Nov 10, 2025

    Defining Courage is a journey into the legacy of the Nisei Soldier—Japanese Americans who served in the segregated units of the 100th Infantry Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, Military Intelligence Service, and 522nd Field Artillery Battalion. Produced and narrated by ABC7-Los Angeles news anchor and filmmaker David Ono, Defining Courage honors the greatest fighting units in American military history. Featuri...

  • 「ノブコ・ミヤモト：ソング・イン・ムーブメント」大阪上映

    Nov 08, 2025

    アーティストでありアクティビストでもあるノブコ・ミヤモトの人生とレガシーを描いた、パワフルなドキュメンタリー映画「ノブコ・ミヤモト：ソング・イン・ムーブメント」が、第14回「シニア女性映画祭・大阪」にて2025年11月8日（土）に上映されます。上映にあわせて和泉真澄同志社大学教授によるトークも時開催されますす。和泉教授は、本ドキュメンタリー邦訳の監修するとともに、『ノブコ・ミヤモト自伝: 旅と愛と革命を歌う日系アーティスト』を翻訳されました。時代を先ゆくアーティストであり、アクティビストであるノブコ・ミヤモト。彼女の半生と、アジア系アメリカを一変させたその活動を紹介するこのドキュメンタリーは、JANMのフランク・H・ワタセ・メディア・アーツ・センターとPBS SoCalが制作しました。類まれなるストーリーテラーであるノブコ・ミヤモトの数十年にわたる画期的な活動の数々とさまざまな地域や産業、家族、歴史をむすびつけてきたその人生を振...

  • Film Screening—Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement (Osaka)

    Nov 08, 2025

    Join us for the Osaka premiere of Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement, a powerful documentary chronicling the life and legacy of artist and activist Nobuko Miyamotoon Saturday, November 8, 2025 at the Senior Women’s Film Festival in Osaka! Professor Masumi Izumi of Doshisha University will provide commentary during the program. Professor Izumi served as the supervisor for the Japanese translation of this documentary ...