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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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  • Fish Truck Family Reunion

    Oct 25, 2025

    For over forty years, Nikkei fish trucks delivered fresh seafood, rice, and other Japanese goods to homes across the Southland. They also provided a valuable community service by bringing a taste of home six days a week to Nikkei throughout the greater Los Angeles area.This special event will feature testimonies from the families of half a dozen former fish truck operators, with rare photographs and home movies. Read...

  • Cruising J-Town Mini-Meet: Street Racers Reunion

    Sep 13, 2025

    Grab a cup of coffee and join the street racing and import tuner scene reunion that’s part of JANM’s exhibition, Cruising J-Town: Behind the Wheel of the Nikkei Community. This event will showcase a selection of a dozen cars that reflect the merging of two scenes that many Japanese Americans and Asian Americans participated in from the 1970s through the 2000s.Please note that cars must be invited to join the main ev...

  • From the Street to the World: Legacies of the Import Car Scene

    Aug 30, 2025

    Dive into the world of import tuners from the 1970s to the present day. Cruising J-Town exhibition curator Oliver Wang will be in conversation with a panel of key contributors to discuss how a generation of street racers helped shape the future of American car culture through their adoptions and innovations with Japanese import cars. Special guests to be announced soon.Cruising J-Town: Behind the Wheel of the Nikkei ...

  • Breaking the Frame: Two Solo Shows on Art and Identity

    Aug 21, 2025 - Aug 23, 2025

    The Democracy Center presents two solo shows that explore what happens when two Asian American performers fall deeply in love with Western mediums—movies and opera—they discover that they both may be in too deep. Bee Vang’s Your Movie Guide to Life delves into an actor’s existential journey through cinema, Hmong history, his antiwar activism, and his role in Clint Eastwood’s film, Gran Torino. Kurt Kanazawa’s L’Oper...