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2025 Kokoro Craft Show

2025年10月11日

Celebrate and shop during the 17th Anniversary of the Kokoro Craft Show at the Los Angeles Hompa Hongwanji Buddhist Temple!This annual craft show is sponsored by the Friends of JANM and features fashion apparel and accessories, jewelry, ceramics, gifts, and more from over forty vendors. All proceeds benefit JANM’s cultural, educational, and volunteer programs. Pre-order bentos from Far Bar by September 30 (DETAILS).T...

Ireicho National Tour—Crystal City

2025年10月10日 - 2025年10月12日

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 the Go, a series of programs and exhibitions presented ac...

Oct. 25 Program to Explore How Fish Trucks Brought Japanese Ingredients to SoCal

2025年10月10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 – Japanese foods and ingredients are commonplace in Southern California markets today, but sixty years ago, ingredients were hard to come by. Archivist and writer Chelsea Shi-Chao Liu will reveal the history of the Nikkei fish trucks that brought a taste ...

JANM Congratulates Clement Hanami on Receiving the Western Museums Association’s Leadership Award

2025年10月08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) congratulates Vice President of Exhibitions and Art Director, Clement Hanami, on receiving the Western Museums Association’s (WMA) 2025 Leadership Award. This award is given to individuals who have significan...

Camp “Left-Overs”: What Issei and Nisei Family Survivors Passed Down

2025年10月04日

Janice Munemitsu, author of The Kindness of Color, and Tommy Dyo, Asian American and Pacific Islander advocate and Little Tokyo historian, will explore the “leftovers” that shaped their respective family lifestyle, habits, emotions, and underlying trauma as a result of the World War II incarceration and postwar resettlement years. They will reflect on the generational inheritance of perseverance, interconnectedness, ...

JANM Decries Creation of New US Concentration Camps and Surge in Mass Incarceration

2025年07月03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) strongly denounces the immigration detention facility dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” in Florida, the nearly $150 billion budget for national defense and deportations that is included in H.R. 1, and the Administr...

Pavilion Groundbreaking Ceremony Launches Start of Construction on Friday, July 11, 2025

2025年06月30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. Media AdvisoryWHAT: JANM is launching an exciting new chapter with a groundbreaking ceremony that marks the start of construction for the Museum’s renovation and new core exhibition, In the Future We Call Now: Realities of Racism, Dreams of Democracy. Commemorate this...

Films of Remembrance

2025年03月08日

Films of Remembrance is the premier showcase of films commemorating the forced incarceration of Japanese Americans in American concentration camps during World War II, presented by the Nichi Bei Foundation. JANM is excited to be hosting some of the screenings on March 8. Please visit the Films of Remembrance website for film descriptions, to purchase an All-Day Pass or individual screening tickets, and to view screen...

Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo—JANM Store

Purchase items related to the “Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo” exhibition from the JANM Store.

History

Japanese immigration to Hawai‘i began in 1868—more than 140 years ago. From Tokyo and Yokohama, seekers of fortune and adventure responded eagerly to the recruiters sent by the sugar industry in Hawai‘i who promised a wage of four dollars a month, plus food, lodging and medical expenses, with boat passage to the Islands and back after the fulfillment of three-year contracts. In reality, those who came to the Is...