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Ireicho National Tour—Manzanar
2025年04月26日 - 2025年04月27日
Appointments are no longer being accepted for this venue. JANM is partnering 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 concentration camps, to other Department of Justice and Wartime Civil Control Administration incarceration sites, and selected cities across the US. The tour is part of JANM on...
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JANM Announces the 2025 Toshizo Watanabe Democracy Fellowship Recipients
2025年04月10日
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 cooperati...
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Poetry at the Gate of Memory
2025年03月27日
Join poets Brynn Saito and traci kato-kiriyama for a reading celebrating the forthcoming April 2025 release of The Gate of Memory: Poems by Descendants of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration. Edited by Saito and Brandon Shimoda, this poetry anthology explores the afterlife of the historical yet enduring injustice of World War II–era prisons and camps. Featured readers include David Mura, Heather Nagami, Mia Ayumi Malhotra, ...
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JANM Calls for Restoration of Contributions of People of Color on US Department of Defense Websites
2025年03月19日
Editors please note: JANM’s Pavilion is closed for renovation; programs will continue on the JANM campus and at other locations at janm.org/OnTheGo. LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) is gravely concerned and disheartened by the ongoing efforts to erase the contributions of people of color to US military history from the US Department of Defense websites. This includes erasing the contribu...
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「ディスカバー・ニッケイ」フェス:日系グローバル・コミュニティー20周年記念
2025年02月08日
ディスカバー・ニッケイは、サイト開設20周年を記念して、ニッケイ人の家族史をテーマにした終日イベントを開催します。「ディスカバー・ニッケイ」は、ニッケイ人のアイデンティティや文化、歴史を紹介する全米日系人博物館のグローバル&コミュニティ・プロジェクトです。このイベントは、1年間にわたる20周年記念イベントの幕開けとなります。コミュニティフェア(12 p.m.–3 p.m.):ニッケイ団体インフォブース、クラフト、抽選会、スタンプラリー(無料、事前登録を推奨しています)家族史ワークショップ(12 p.m.–3 p.m.): ジャーナリング、ビデオライフヒストリーインタビュー、ニッケイ家系図入門、思い出の品々の保存、詩のワークショップ、シニアの思い出の記録ニッケイ家族史・パネルディスカッション(3:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m.): 【モデレーター】ナオミ・ヒラハラ;【パネリスト】ミチ・ホンマ(米国)、アンドリュー・ハセガワ(...
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JANM on the Go will Bring Special Exhibitions, Public Programs throughout Greater LA and Beyond in 2025 and 2026
2024年08月21日
LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) announces JANM on the Go, the Museum’s lively schedule of special exhibitions, public programs, family festivals, education programs, and more on the JANM campus, throughout Little Tokyo, the greater Los Angeles area, Southern California, and across the US and Japan. “JANM is a cornerstone of the Little Tokyo community and a powerhouse on the national and...
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JANM Book Club with Tritia Toyota
2024年06月23日
Join Tritia Toyota in conversation with Valerie Matsumoto around Toyota’s new book Intimate Strangers: Shin Issei Women and Contemporary Japanese American Community, 1980–2020, which explores the lives of Japanese women migrating to the US and the specific challenges and trials they faced as both women and recent immigrants.About the book:Intimate Strangers explores the stories of resilient shin Issei women who migra...
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JANM Announces Fall 2023 Book Club Authors
2023年08月31日
LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) announces the lineup of authors for the fall 2023 JANM Book Club, a public program series that highlights new publications by Japanese Americans or related to Japanese American history and culture. The featured authors are Naomi Hirahara, Eric L. Muller, Gwen Muranaka, and Dr. ShiPu Wang. Tickets for each program are $16 ($9 for seniors and students, free...
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Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo
Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo Rediscover the work of three trailblazing women—Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo—in Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo. This exhibition reveals a broader picture of the American experience through artworks and life stories of three Japanese American women from the pre–World War II generation, seen together fo...
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Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo—Venues
Pictures of Belonging is an exhibition produced by the Japanese American National Museum. It is traveling to various sites across the country before being on view at JANM in 2026. See below for information about venues and dates. TRAVELING EXHIBITION SITES Current/Upcoming Venues Smithsonian American Art MuseumNovember 15, 2024 – August 17, 2025Smithsonian American Art Museum8th and G Streets NWWashington, DC 20004We...