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  • Contested Histories: Whispers from the Past

    2024年12月14日

    Discover the process of creating Contested Histories and uncovering the stories behind the objects with the exhibition’s curator and the Museum’s Vice President of Exhibitions and Art Director, Clement Hanami, and project coordinator, Dina Furumoto. The project traveled over 400 objects from the controversial Allen Hendershott Eaton collection across the US. Hanami and Furumoto will show behind-the-scenes videos and ...

  • Honoring Common Ground

    2024年11月23日

    Enjoy an afternoon of celebration and activities honoring JANM’s core exhibition, Common Ground: The Heart of Community, that highlights over 140 years of Japanese American history. The afternoon will feature natsukashii (nostalgic) music, a souvenir photo booth, docent-led tours, and a chance for visitors to contribute to our community memory archive booth. The core exhibition has been the center of the Museum for t...

  • World Premiere of Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement at the VC Film Fest

    2024年05月04日

    JANM is proud to present the world premiere of Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement, at the VC Film Fest in Los Angeles on May 4, 2024. Experience this new sweeping documentary from JANM’s Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center and PBS SoCal that follows the life of visionary artist-activist Nobuko Miyamoto and her work that changed Asian America forever. Featuring rare archival footage, Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Mo...

  • The Importance of Telling the Japanese American Resisters’ Story

    2024年04月27日

    Join us to honor Dr. Takashi Hoshizaki, a Heart Mountain resister and a board member of the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation (HMWF). As a US citizen, he was incarcerated without due process, turned eighteen while behind barbed wire, and resisted the draft stating, “I will fight if you restore my rights.” Convicted of draft resistance in 1944, he spent two years in federal prison and was pardoned by President Truman ...

  • Virtual Educator Workshop—Teaching the Youth Experience of JA WWII Incarceration

    2024年04月11日

    Join the JANM Education Unit for this free virtual educator workshop exploring the daily lives of young Japanese Americans who came of age in America’s concentration camps. During World War II, over 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were unjustly incarcerated in American concentration camps—approximately one third were children. Through photographs, personal stories, and artifacts from JANM’s collection, learn stra...

  • JANM Mourns the Passing of Raymond S. Uno

    2024年03月11日

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) mourns the passing of the Honorable Raymond S. Uno. A nationally recognized civil rights and peace activist and retired Third District Court judge, Uno was the first person of color to ever serve as a judge in Utah. Born in Ogden, Utah, he and his family moved to El Monte, California, where he went to a segregated school. During World War II he and hi...

  • 2024 Los Angeles Day of Remembrance

    2024年02月17日

    The annual Los Angeles Day of Remembrance commemorates the signing of Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Executive Order 9066 authorized the US military to forcibly remove persons of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast and set into motion their incarceration into concentration camps during World War II. This year’s theme, Rooted in Resistance: Fighting for Justice...

  • The Japanese American National Museum Launches An American Vocabulary: Words to Action in Response to Increased Anti-Asian Violence

    2022年09月27日

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will launch a new, collaborative project, An American Vocabulary: Words to Action, on Saturday, October 8, 2022, from 3 p.m.–6 p.m. on the JANM Plaza. The event will include live music with rapper jason chu, percussionist Gingee, and DJ Grace Ktown. Visual artist, Audrey Chan, will facilitate an art demonstration connected to the project that encourages p...

  • JANM ORGANIZES 2021 YEAR OF THE OX ACTIVITIES, EVENTS WITH ITS ‘OSHOGATSU VIRTUAL FAMILY FESTIVAL’ FROM JAN. 3 TO 8

    2020年12月28日

    Los Angeles, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will celebrate the New Year with its “Oshogatsu Virtual Family Festival: 2021 Year of the Ox” featuring interactive, offline festivities for all ages including multi-lingual story times, play performances and a JANM membership raffle for participants beginning on Sunday, January 3, 2021 and running through Friday, January 8, 2021. This virtual festival is...

  • Boyle Heights—Oral History Excerpts

    Selected Excerpts of Oral History Interviews Read excerpts from over 50 oral histories conducted as part of the Boyle Heights Project. Hershey Eisenberg Leo Frumkin Freda Maddow Mollie Wilson Murphy Sandie Okada Fumi Satow Cedrick Shimo James A. Tolmasov Buddy Weber George Yoshida