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  • 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—Resources

    Explore the world of cars and trucks as powerful vehicles for personal expression, collective identity, and social mobility. Read stories and watch videos that share stories related to the exhibition. Check back as we add more content throughout the run of the exhibition (July 31 through November 12, 2025).CRUISING J-TOWN: DETOURS—Articles and testimonials related to the personal, family, and community stories and hi...

  • 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...

  • Virtual Visits

    Connect with JANM Virtually! Virtual visits use video conferencing technology to engage visitors and students in conversations surrounding JANM’s collections. These visits offer a new way to make sure that the important lessons of history are not forgotten.

  • バーチャル訪問

    JANMとバーチャルでつながる。バーチャル訪問では、ビデオ会議システムを通して、一般来館者や生徒に全米日系人博物館のコレクションに触れていただきます。歴史の大切な教訓が忘れ去られてしまわないよう、伝えていくための新たな方法です。

  • Bid for Education Program

    Financial assistance for school groups. Each year, thanks to our many generous donors, the Bid for Education raises thousands of dollars to enable on-site and virtual visits to JANM for more than 12,000 primary and secondary school students and teachers. Funds raised by the Bid for Education are earmarked to support bus transportation, museum admission, and virtual visit fee waivers for students from Title I schools ...

  • ビッド・フォー・エデュケーション・プログラム

    当館訪問とバーチャル訪問の経済的支援。ビッド・フォー・エデュケーション・プログラムには、毎年、多くのご支援者の皆様から年間数千ドルに上る寛大なご寄付を頂戴しています。これによって毎年12,000人を超える小・中学生と先生方が、当館を実際にまたはバーチャルで訪れています。このビッド・フォー・エデュケーションによって調達した資金は、経済的支援を必要とするタイトル1の学校とグループから訪れる小中学生の来館用バスの費用、入館料、バーチャル訪問料金をカバーします。

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