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  • The Japanese American National Museum Receives a Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to Support the Upcoming Exhibition, Cruising J-Town: Nikkei Car Culture in Southern California

    2022年11月30日

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) was awarded $75,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support the upcoming exhibition, Cruising J-Town: Nikkei Car Culture in Southern California. This NEH grant will allow JANM to create an exhibition about Nikkei car culture from the early 1900s to the present. Nikkei are Japanese emigrants and their descendants who have create...

  • Staging our Histories: Creating Masao and the Bronze Nightingale

    2022年05月03日

    FREE In Person RSVP Virtual RSVP Join writers Dan Kwong and Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara in a conversation moderated by Kristen Hayashi around their new play, Masao and the Bronze Nightingale, which explores the story of a Japanese American jazz musician from Boyle Heights who falls for an African American jazz singer after World War II. About the show: In the aftermath of WWII, formerly-incarcerated Japa...

  • JANM’s 30th Anniversary Benefit

    2022年04月30日

    We cordially invite you to join us for a special evening of celebration on the historic occasion of JANM’s 30th Anniversary. We’ll reflect on all we’ve accomplished in our first three decades and the timeliness and timelessness of our mission as we continue to illluminate the Japanese American experience and promote greater understanding and appreciation of America’s ethnic and cultural diversity. Most of all, it’...

  • JANM 30th Anniversary Digital Film Festival—Sincerely Miné Okubo

    2022年02月12日

    FREE Join us virtually for this special screening and Q&A! Presented in response to the new short film “Sincerely Miné Okubo,” join scholars and family of Miné Okubo for a dynamic discussion on her art, humor, and legacy. Maymanah Farhat, Phil Tajitsu Nash, Seiko Buckingham, and Miya Franks will explore elements of Okubo’s life that are often overlooked, in conversation with the filmmakers Yuka Murakami and ...

  • CANCELLED: New Year’s Tales with Stanley Hayami

    2022年01月08日

    EVENT UPDATE As of December 27, 2021 With the rapidly increasing COVID-19 infection rates in Los Angeles County due to the Omicron variant, the Japanese American National Museum will temporarily close to the public effective immediately. The safety of our community is of paramount importance to us, as is our obligation as a public institution to do our part to support efforts to inhibit the spread of the COVI...

  • Screening and Q&A—KIKAN: The Homecoming

    2021年10月02日

    $16 General Admission / FREE for Members Join the cast and crew of KIKAN: The Homecoming for a screening of this film exploring the story of a Japanese American soldier during WWII. The post-screening discussion moderated by Mitch Maki (CEO, Go For Broke National Education Center) will feature writer and Director Kerwin Berk, Director of Photography Ben Arikawa, and actors Ryan Takemiya, Anna Sun, and Kealoha ...

  • Author Discussion—When Can We Go Back to America? with Susan Kamei

    2021年09月25日

    $10 General Admission / FREE for JANM & JACL Members In this virtual program, Susan H. Kamei will discuss her new book, When Can We Go Back to America?: Voices of Japanese American Incarceration during WWII, and the lessons that she hopes readers of all ages will take from it. She will be joined in conversation by William A. Darity Jr., Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at Duke Univer...

  • Not Yo’ Butterfly with Nobuko Miyamoto (ft. Quetzal Flores)

    2021年07月10日

    $10 general / FREE for members Join Nobuko Miyamoto for a virtual celebration of her new album and memoir! She will be joined in conversation and performance by Quetzal Flores via Zoom. About the book: Not Yo’ Butterfly: My Long Song of Relocation, Race, Love, and Revolution, a new memoir, is the intimate and unflinching life story of Miyamoto—artist, activist, and mother. Beginning with the harrowing...

  • Art Break: Ghosts! with Edwin Ushiro

    2021年06月01日

    Edwin Ushiro is a visual artist who captures the essence of Hawaii, youth, and nostalgia in his work with a technique that’s uniquely his own. His work resonates with the echoes of his boyhood in the “slow town” of Wailuku on the Hawaiian island of Maui. In his paintings, he recalls the sun-struck days of youth, when the world was fresh and magical, but also explores the eerie folklore indigenous to dark country road...

  • Told by the children: A presentation of Oral History Stories

    1997年06月14日

    Children will share the oral history stories and projects that they learned how to collect at the May 17 Museum workshop. Parents, visitors, and friends are encouraged to attend. Free with Museum admission.