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Exhibition Opening for Cruising J-Town

2025年07月31日

Celebrate Cruising J-Town: Behind the Wheel of the Nikkei Community with an opening reception hosted by the ArtCenter College of Design!See the exhibition’s five classic cars: George Nakamura’s 1940s “Meteor” hot rod; Brian Omatsu’s custom 1951 Mercury coupe known as the “Purple Reign”; a 1956 Ford F100 pickup truck owned by Kirk Shimazu; Tod Kaneko’s 1973 Datsun 510, one of the models that launched the import car cr...

Ireicho National Tour—Heart Mountain

2025年07月24日 - 2025年07月26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...

JANM Digital Film Festival Premiere: Our Man in Tokyo (The Ballad of Shin Miyata)

2020年05月08日

Join us as we dive into films produced by the Japanese American National Museum’s Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center! We will be releasing a selection of films, some for a limited time only. Organize a (virtual) screening party with your friends or family or just get cozy and enjoy the JANM Digital Film Festival from the safety of your own home. We will also have Q&A sessions with the filmmakers and others involved in...

Film Screening, Q&A, and Reception—"Masters of Modern Design"

2019年05月09日

FREE From the hand-drawn typeface on the cover of The Godfather to Herman Miller’s biomorphic coffee table, the work of Japanese American designers including Ruth Asawa, George Nakashima, Isamu Noguchi, S. Neil Fujita, and Gyo Obata permeated postwar culture. While these second generation Japanese American artists have been celebrated, less-discussed is how their World War II incarceration—a period of intense hard...

ZÓCALO—What Does the Life of Frederick Douglass Tell Us About America?

2018年11月29日

A Smithsonian/ASU "What It Means to Be American" Event at JANM’s National Center for the Preservation of Democracy Moderated by Baratunde Thurston, cultural critic, comedian, and author of How to Be Black American icon Frederick Douglass died in 1895, but he still makes the news. Indeed, he represents an increasingly rare sort of hero—one whose story is invoked across the political spectrum. Perhaps t...

JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM RECEIVES BEQUEST FROM ESTATE OF SETSUKO OKA

2018年09月11日

Los Angeles, CA—The Japanese American National Museum has received a bequest in excess of $525,000 from the estate of Setsuko Oka, a longtime museum member who died in October 2017. The funds will go toward educational initiatives as well as exhibitions and programs focused on Japanese artistic and cultural heritage in the United States, through the soon-to-be-established Setsuko Oka Japanese Heritage Fund. A plaque ...

NEW JANM EXHIBITION TO FEATURE ORIGINAL EXECUTIVE ORDER AUTHORIZING WWII INCARCERATION OF JAPANESE AMERICANS, ON LOAN FROM THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES

2017年01月26日

From February 18 to August 13, 2017, the Japanese American National Museum will present Instructions to All Persons: Reflections on Executive Order 9066, a new exhibition that commemorates the 75th anniversary of President Franklin Roosevelt’s signing of Executive Order 9066, which led to the tragic and unlawful incarceration of 120,000 individuals of Japanese ancestry during World War II. For the first three month...

JANM TO PRESENT SPECIAL FREE SCREENING OF STEVE AOKI’S NETFLIX ORIGINAL FILM "I’LL SLEEP WHEN I’M DEAD"

2016年08月31日

I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead, a new documentary on the life of influential DJ, music producer, and record label founder Steve Aoki, will be screened at the Japanese American National Museum on September 27, at 7:30 p.m. Free and open to the public, the screening will be followed by a discussion with Aoki led by Mike Shinoda of Grammy Award-winning rock band Linkin Park. I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead was shot over the c...

JANM ANNOUNCES NEW VP OF EXTERNAL RELATIONS

2015年11月30日

Rick Noguchi has been hired as Vice President of External Relations for the Japanese American National Museum. He began his role on November 16. Noguchi reports to JANM President and CEO Greg Kimura. The hiring marks a return to the museum for Noguchi, who previously held positions there in public programs and development. He has more than 20 years of experience in the nonprofit sector, serving in various mana...

Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty - Artists

40 innovative contemporary artworks inspired by Hello Kitty and her world for the exhibition were created for the exhibition by artists across the United States and in Japan, United Kingdom, and Ireland. APAK • Asuka Satow • Audrey Kawasaki • becca • Ben Venom • Brandi Milne • Buff Monster • Colin Christian • D*Face • Edwin Ushiro • Eimi Takano • Gary Baseman • Hikari Shimoda • Jason Woodside • Jeni Yang ...