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LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) announces the recipients of the 2025 Toshizo Watanabe Democracy Fellowship. This fellowship is a yearlong professional development program designed for emerging leaders from Japan across sectors. It advances global democracy and strengthens ties between the United States and Japan by promoting democratic values. It also fosters understanding and cooperation between the two nations.

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) condemns today's presidential proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to enforce mass deportations of Venezuelan immigrants. That law permits deporting people from countries with which the US is at war and that have invaded the US. In 1941, President Roosevelt used it to arrest and detain citizens of Japan, Germany, and Italy without due process in Department of Justice internment camps.

Each year on or around February 19, Japanese American communities and allies across the US commemorate the Day of Remembrance (DOR). On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which directed the US military to uproot 125,000 persons of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast and incarcerate them without due process in America’s concentration camps during World War II.

The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) was founded by the Japanese American community as a beacon for civil rights and democracy, ensuring that the injustices faced by Japanese Americans during World War II are never repeated against any other group. Our Museum stands as a place of memory, truth, and justice, where history is not only preserved but actively used to confront contemporary threats to democracy and human dignity.

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January 16, 2025: Update on Little Tokyo’s Response for the Fires in the Los Angeles Area

As the Los Angeles community begins to face the aftermath of the horrific Eaton and Palisades fires that have caused so much loss and devastation, people everywhere are mobilizing to help those who have lost loved ones, homes, businesses, and livelihoods, and to support the firefighters and first responders who continue their tireless efforts to contain the fires and protect lives and prop

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