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  • JANM Decries Creation of New US Concentration Camps and Surge in Mass Incarceration

    Jul 03, 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) strongly denounces the immigration detention facility dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” in Florida, the nearly $150 billion budget for national defense and deportations that is included in H.R. 1, and the Administr...

  • Pavilion Groundbreaking Ceremony Launches Start of Construction on Friday, July 11, 2025

    Jun 30, 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. Media AdvisoryWHAT: JANM is launching an exciting new chapter with a groundbreaking ceremony that marks the start of construction for the Museum’s renovation and new core exhibition, In the Future We Call Now: Realities of Racism, Dreams of Democracy. Commemorate this...

  • Film Screening—Dealing with Dad

    Jun 26, 2025

    Join JANM and Changing Tides for a screening of the award-winning and poignant dramedy, Dealing with Dad. When Margaret reluctantly returns to her hometown to deal with her dad’s sudden depression, she and her brothers learn how to work together to help him get better and rediscover their relationship with him and with each other.The screening will be followed by a Q&A discussion with the film’s writer and director, ...

  • JANM and ArtCenter to Present Cruising J-Town, a New Exhibition Exploring Japanese American Car Culture in Los Angeles

    Jun 26, 2025

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM), in partnership with ArtCenter College of Design, will present Cruising J-Town: Behind the Wheel of the Nikkei Community as part of JANM on the Go. On view from July 31–November 12, 2025 in the Peter and Merle Mullin Gallery located at ArtCenter’s south campus in Pasadena, the exhibition celebrates Southern California’s love affair with the automobile thr...

  • JANM Mourns the Passing of Legendary Filmmaker Robert A. Nakamura

    Jun 23, 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 Robert A. Nakamura. Known to generations of artists as “the Godfather of Asian American media,” he was a legendary photographer, filmmaker, and activist who was on the original advisory ...

  • JANM Decries Historical Erasure at Manzanar, Minidoka, and other National Parks

    Jun 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) denounces the signs at the Manzanar and Minidoka National Historic Sites, as well as at the national historic sites and parks, that encourage guests to report any information that is deemed critical of Americ...

  • Democracy Center Announces the 2025 Irene Yamamoto Arts Writers Fellows

    Jun 11, 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 Daniel K. Inouye National Center for the Preservation of Democracy (Democracy Center) has awarded the third annual Irene Yamamoto Arts Writers Fellowship to Heven Haile and Joyce Kwon, and the Jurors’ Award for Special Recognition to Syd Westley. A ...

  • Joint Statement from JANM, Chinese American Museum, LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, and Grand Performances on Los Angeles Protests

    Jun 10, 2025

    LOS ANGELES, CA – As museums and arts institutions located in downtown Los Angeles, we see everyday the vibrancy and joy of life in this community and throughout our beautiful city, shared and built by immigrants from all over the world. We take pride in the fact that many of our guests who visit us to enjoy the arts are from this community.This weekend, a manufactured crisis marked by immigration raids and aggressiv...

  • 12th Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest Celebration

    Jun 07, 2025

    Marvel at the amazing and creative ways that writers can imagine Little Tokyo and expand the fictional boundaries of the Japanese American experience at the 12th Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest Awards Ceremony!Each year, the Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest heightens awareness of Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo by challenging both new and experienced writers to write a story that captures the spirit an...

  • 第12回 イマジンリトル東京ショートストーリーコンテスト授賞式

    Jun 07, 2025

    第12回「イマジン・リトル東京ショートストーリーコンテスト」授賞式では、投稿されたフィクションの作品を通して、魅力あふれるリトル東京の世界、そして日系アメリカ人の経験を広げるさまざまな物語をご紹介します。（＊授賞式は英語で行われますが、一部日本語でも行われます）このコンテストは毎年開催されており、ロサンゼルスのリトル東京への関心を高めることを目的に、経験豊富な作家からライティング初心者まで、幅広い参加者にリトル東京とその人々の精神や魅力を描いたフィクション作品の応募を呼びかけています。授賞式では、「英語・成人」「英語・青年」「日本語」の3部門における受賞作品の発表に加え、特別ゲストによる朗読が行われます。各部門の受賞者には賞金が授与され、作品は『羅府新報』、ディスカバー・ニッケイ、およびリトル東京歴史協会のウェブサイトに掲載されます。本コンテストは、リトル東京歴史協会が主催し、全米日系人博物館ディスカバー・ニッケイプロジェクトの...