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  • The Japanese American National Museum Received a $2.55 Million Multi-Year Operating Support Grant from the Perenchio Foundation

    2022年11月11日

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) has received a $2.55 million Multi-Year Operating Support Grant from the Perenchio Foundation. This grant will support the Museum’s general operations, including programming, community engagement, fundraising, and accessibility, over three years. “We are immensely grateful to the Perenchio Foundation for this extraordinary investment in JANM to amplify...

  • Members Only Meet-and-Greet: Naomi Hirahara & Sarah Kuhn

    2022年03月26日

    FREE for Members All members are invited to this exclusive conversation and Q&A with award winning authors Naomi Hirahara and Sarah Kuhn. Naomi Hirahara is an Edgar Award-winning author of multiple traditional mystery series and noir short stories. Her Mas Arai mysteries, which have been published in Japanese, Korean and French, feature a Los Angeles gardener and Hiroshima survivor who solves crimes. The sevent...

  • Imagine Little Tokyo 2022 Writing Workshop

    2022年01月27日

    FREE Join award winning author Naomi Hirahara and Little Tokyo Historical Society leader Mike Okamura for a virtual interactive story writing workshop! Participants will learn tips and get advice for writing short stories that they can submit to the 9th Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest. Presented by Little Tokyo Historic Society in partnership with Discover Nikkei, the purpose of the Imagine Litt...

  • Setsuko’s Secret: Transformational Stories

    2021年10月21日

    FREE RSVP TO ATTEND IN PERSON CLICK TO WATCH THE LIVESTREAM Please join for an exciting conversation about Setsuko’s Secret: Heart Mountain and the Legacy of the Japanese American Incarceration. Author Shirley Ann Higuchi, J.D., chair of the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation, will share her painful transformational journey researching and writing about her family’s history and the Japanese American incar...

  • The Unsung Great: Uncovering Nikkei Histories with Greg Robinson

    2021年06月12日

    $10 general / FREE for members In his newest book, The Unsung Great: Stories of Extraordinary Japanese Americans, scholar and journalist Greg Robinson reveals the diverse experiences of Japanese Americans and explores a wealth of themes, including mixed-race families, artistic pioneers, mass confinement, civil rights activism, and queer history. Robinson will speak more to his process uncovering these stories ...

  • Nisei Radicals with Diane Fujino, Ron Fujiyoshi & Miya Sommers

    2021年06月05日

    Join author Diane Fujino, activist-minister Ron Fujiyoshi, and community organizer Miya Sommers in a conversation around Fujino’s newest book, Nisei Radicals: The Feminist Poetics and Transformative Ministry of Mitsuye Yamada and Michael Yasutake. Fujiyoshi, a long time friend of Yasutake, will share on his experiences working alongside Yasutake with a shared “jubilee liberation praxis.” Sommers will provide...

  • Art Break: Clay! with Ako Castuera

    2021年05月25日

    Ako Castuera’s sculptural work is informed by the diverse cultural and environmental features of Southern California, on Tongva Land, where she was born and currently lives. Ako’s sculptural work is a material exploration which draws on mythmaking to give body to personal and global histories, incorporating a variety of mediums including locally gathered and commercial clay, neighborhood yard trimmings, compost, yarn...

  • Question 27, Question 28 by Chay Yew, directed by Jully Lee

    2021年05月08日 - 2021年05月21日

    Artists at Play is sharing free theatre for young audiences in celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month! What were the experiences of Japanese American women during the World War II concentration camps? How did they keep hope alive for themselves, their families and community? Question 27, Question 28 by Chay Yew uses archival interviews and testimonials to tell their stories of hardship, determination, a...

  • Art Break: Zines! (with Rosie Yasukochi)

    2021年03月23日

    Join staff designer and artist, Rosie Yasukochi, for a short workshop where you’ll learn how to make your own zine, or self-published booklet. You’ll also learn a bit about the history of newspapers and independent publishing within the Japanese American community. This workshop is part of a new series of free, lunchtime art workshops that you can do with the supplies you have at home called Art Break. Art Break i...

  • JANM Digital Film Festival—Crossroads: Boyle Heights Q&A

    2020年12月18日

    A neighborhood is made up of people and places. It is defined through the experiences of those who consider it home. And it holds their hopes for the future and their memories of the past. In 2002, the exhibition, Boyle Heights: The Power of Place, celebrated these experiences and memories of Boyle Heights, a vibrant, multiethnic, and multicultural Los Angeles neighborhood. The short film, Crossroads: Boyle Heights (...