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.
The JANM Store features distinctive Asian American merchandise for all occasions and generations. Our unique product line represents the essence of the Japanese American experience, while also promoting an appreciation of America’s ethnic and cultural diversity. Your purchases help support the programs and exhibitions at JANM.
In January 2025, JANM will begin work on the most significant change to its Pavilion since it opened in 1999—a renovation of our Pavilion and an ambitious reimagining of our core exhibition.
The Ireichō is touring the United States in 2025–2026! The sacred book records the names of over 125,000 persons of Japanese ancestry who were unjustly imprisoned in US Army, Department of Justice, and War Relocation Authority camps during World War II.
By Emily Anderson, JANM Curator
In March 1944, as war raged in Europe and the Pacific, a young woman named Faith Gladstone living in Brooklyn came across an article that would transform her life. Appearing in LIFE magazine’s March 20th issue, the article, titled “Tule Lake Segregation Center,” introduced Faith to the plight of Japanese Americans incarcerated at Tule Lake, the recently designated segregation center at the California-Oregon border.
Join the Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest for a special Japanese-language workshop that will introduce you to an overview of Los Angeles’s Little Tokyo and provide tips for placing fictional characters in real-life settings.
Every fall, our volunteers host a See’s Candies fundraiser that supports the Kokoro Craft Show Committee and the volunteers’ activity fund. This fund helps pay for volunteer-led programs, including Together events and field trips to the Holocaust Museum of Los Angeles, the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, the Chinese American Museum, and a walking tour of Los Angeles’s Little Tokyo.
Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement will have its Kyoto premiere at Doshisha University on Wednesday, November 6, 2024. Please come to see the JANM’s latest work in Kyoto!
Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement will have its Tokyo premiere at Aoyama Gakuin University on Tuesday, October 29, 2024. Ann Burroughs, the president and CEO of JANM will introduce the documentary and JANM's updates before the film. Please come to see the JANM’s latest work in Tokyo!