LOS ANGELES – This week, the Japanese American National Museum commemorates the 80th anniversary of Executive Order 9066. When President Franklin Roosevelt signed it on February 19, 1942, he launched the wrongful imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II. As JANM remembers this milestone, I think about my boyhood behind barbed wire. We carried anger about being wrenched from our homes. We carried loyalty into battle and federal court. We carried uncertainty about returning to our friends and routines. But we did not lose hope.
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LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum celebrates the passage of the Amache National Historic Site Act (H.R. 2497) by the U.S. Senate. Amache was one of ten incarceration camps that held nearly 10,000 people of Japanese ancestry during World War II. Bipartisan efforts to preserve Amache began when the site became a National Historic Landmark in 2006. It gained momentum in 2018 when the Amache Study Act was introduced in the U.S.
LOS ANGELES – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) is gravely concerned by Occidental College’s woefully inadequate response to a student’s anti-Asian hate speech.
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Public programs presented in conjunction with the “Sutra and Bible: Faith and the Japanese American World War II Incarceration” exhibition.
A Community’s Spiritual Journey to Survive
From the confines of concentration camps and locales under martial law to the battlegrounds of Europe, Japanese Americans drew on their faith to survive forced removal, indefinite incarceration, unjust deportation, family separation, and war combat at a time when their race and religion were seen as threats to national security. Sutra and Bible explores the role that religion played in saving the exiled Japanese American community from despair.
LOS ANGELES - Discover Nikkei, a web-based project of The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) focused on promoting connections and understanding among the global Japanese diaspora partners with Junior Chamber International (JCI) Brazil-Japan and Nikkei Australia for a free virtual program, “What is Nikkei Food?,” that will explore Nikkei food and the role that it plays in families and communities around the world on February 26 at 3pm PST
LOS ANGELES - The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) mourns the death of Dr. Warren Nori Minami, 83, who passed away in Bethesda, Maryland on January 9, 2022. A retired senior executive with the International Monetary Fund, Dr. Minami served on JANM’s Board of Governors from 1998 to 2006. He is also the brother of Denny Minami, current JANM Governor.
LOS ANGELES - The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the opening of the Historic Building in 1992. JANM will use the historic occasion to reflect on all its accomplishments in the first three decades, and the timeliness and timelessness of its mission: To promote greater understanding and appreciation of America’s ethnic and cultural diversity by sharing the full range of the Japanese American experience.