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  • JANM Mourns the Passing of Hisako Terasaki

    2024年04月25日

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) mourns the recent passing of Nisei artist Hisako Terasaki. Born to Shuichi and Chizu Sumioka, she and her sister, Tokiko, grew up in Boyle Heights where her family ran a flower shop. The Sumiokas were incarcerated at the Poston concentration camp in Arizona. During the postwar years, they lived and worked apart from each other to help their family become ...

  • JANM Mourns the Passing of Sakaye Aratani

    2024年04月02日

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) mourns Sakaye Aratani, who passed away on March 18, 2024. Aratani grew up in Gardena, where her parents ran a chicken farm. When Pearl Harbor was bombed, her family lived with relatives in Reedley, California before being forcibly removed to the Poston concentration camp in Arizona. While visiting another camp she met her future husband, George, and they ...

  • JANM to Dedicate Norman Y. Mineta Democracy Plaza on January 26, 2024

    2024年01月08日

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will name its historic plaza after the late Secretary Norman Y. Mineta (1931–2022). JANM will host the dedication ceremony for the Norman Y. Mineta Democracy Plaza at 4 p.m. on Friday, January 26, 2024. JANM is proud to commemorate Secretary Mineta’s extraordinary legacy, his lifelong commitment to democracy, and his profound impact on the Museum. “Nor...

  • 2023 Benefit & Auction

    Thank you to everyone who joined us in person or via live-stream for JANM’s 2023 Benefit & Auction! On behalf of the Board, staff, and volunteers, thank you to our sponsors and to everyone who helped to make our hybrid fundraiser such a success. Your generous support and faith in our mission means so much to us. Thank you for lifting us up with your generosity and unwavering commitment to JANM.

  • 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...

  • Tales of Little Tokyo

    2020年01月11日

    Two performances: 2 p.m.–3:30 p.m. 7 p.m.–8:30 p.m. FREE! Tales of Little Tokyo is a live theatrical reading of memories drawn from over 50 interviews with Los Angeles residents about their relationship to the oldest and largest Japanese American community in the United States. Today this 135+ year old landmark of Japanese American history faces serious threats to its existence as the relentle...

  • FREE SCREENING OF "CRIMSON KIMONO," CLASSIC FILM NOIR MOVIE FILMED IN LITTLE TOKYO, SET FOR JANM ON OCT. 17 AS PART OF HAUNTED LITTLE TOKYO FILM FESTIVAL

    2019年10月01日

    Los Angeles, CA A free outdoor screening of the classic Sam Fuller movie, The Crimson Kimono (1959), will be held in the plaza of the Japanese American National Museum on Thursday, October 17, beginning at 8 p.m. This event is part of the annual Haunted Little Tokyo Film Festival and is organized in partnership with Visual Communications and JANM. The Crimson Kimono is a groundbreaking film on several levels. F...

  • JANM’S FREE OSHOGATSU FAMILY FESTIVAL WELCOMES THE YEAR OF THE BOAR

    2018年12月11日

    Los Angeles, CA—The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will present its annual Oshogatsu Family Festival on Sunday, January 6, 2019, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission to the new year celebration featuring Japanese and Japanese American performances, crafts, and activities is free and all ages are welcome to help ring in the Year of the Boar. Highlights of the day will include two mochitsuki (rice pounding) de...

  • NEW ‘JIVE BOMBER’ CAST LEARNS REAL HISTORY FROM JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM VOLUNTEERS

    2000年12月01日

    LOS ANGELES—In preparing for the new production of the critically-acclaimed musical “A Jive Bomber’s Christmas" set for shows at the Japanese American National Museum on Dec. 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16 and 17, the show’s creators wanted their new cast to have a clear understanding of the characters they would be portraying in this play located in a World War II U.S. concentration camp where thousands of Japanese Americans ...

  • New "Jive Bomber" Cast Learns Real History From Japanese American National Museum Volunteers

    2000年12月01日

    In preparing for the new production of the critically-acclaimed musical A Jive Bomber’s Christmas set for shows at the Japanese American National Museum on December 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, and 17, the show’s creators wanted their new cast to have a clear understanding of the characters they would be portraying in this play located in a World War II U.S. concentration camp where thousands of Japanese Americans were un...