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  • Cruising J-Town—Press

    For press inquiries, email mediarelations@janm.org or call 213.625.0414.Press Image Gallery(Password Access Only—contact mediarelations@janm.org for access.)

  • Cruising J-Town—Community

    Browse the resources below to see the many different ways that the Japanese American community has fueled evolutions in car culture.

  • Cruising J-Town—Photos

    Southern California is one of America’s original autopias—a region built from and for car and truck culture. For over one hundred years, the Nikkei (Japanese American) community has shared a profound, complicated relationship with that culture.Whether driving fish trucks or drift racers, joining teenage car clubs or professional race teams, this community has long embraced the automobile to express creative identitie...

  • Cruising J-Town—Audio Guide

    Seven years in the making, Cruising J-Town is one of the first exhibitions to ever highlight the rich history of the Japanese American community here in Los Angeles, and its long relationship to the world of cars and trucks. The stories cover everything from import tuners to gardening trucks, auto designers to gas station mechanics, prewar hot rodders to 21st century drift racers.At the heart of Cruising J-Town are t...

  • Ireichō—Venues

    The Ireichō: Book of NamesTouring the United States 2025Japanese American National Museum (JANM) is honored to partner with The Irei Project and USC’s Duncan Ryuken Williams to travel The Ireichō: Book of Names in conjunction with pilgrimages to all ten former War Relocation Authority (WRA) concentration camps, to other Department of Justice (DOJ) and Wartime Civil Control Administration (WCCA) incarceration sites, a...

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  • Contested Histories: Preserving and Sharing a Community Collection—Events

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  • Contested Histories: Preserving and Sharing a Community Collection—Press

    For press inquiries, email mediarelations@janm.org or call 213.625.0414.Press Image Gallery(Password Access Only—contact mediarelations@janm.org for access.)

  • Contested Histories: Preserving and Sharing a Community Collection—JANM Store

    Purchase related items from the JANM Store, including books, prints, and other items.Buy Now JANM members receive a 10% discount! Join or renew now