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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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  • Cruising J-Town—Events

    Check back for upcoming programs and events, follow us on social media, and subscribe to our email list for updates!To see a complete listing of the JANM’s programs, check out our Events Calendar.

  • 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—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...

  • 2026 Gala & Auction—Bid for Education

    Support the Bid for EducationJoin us in supporting JANM’s Bid for Education, initiated by the late Senator Daniel K. Inouye in 2000. This vital program makes it possible for over 12,000 students and teachers to experience JANM’s educational offerings annually. Your contributions fund transportation, museum admission, and facilitated experiences for Title I schools. The fund is incredibly meaningful: for many of these...

  • 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。

  • Stanley Hayami Diary

    (95.226) Stanley Hayami (1925-1945) was a student from Los Angeles who attended high school at the Heart Mountain Concentration Camp in Wyoming. Hayami left Heart Mountain in June 1944 to join the U.S. Army and was killed in combat in Northern Italy on April 23, 1945, while trying to help a fellow soldier. He was nineteen years old. This diary, which Hayami kept from 1941 to 1944, records a spectrum of youthful dream...