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Los Angeles Premiere of Third Act at the 41st LA Asian Pacific Film Festival
2025年05月03日
JANM is proud to present the Los Angeles premiere of Third Act at the LA Asian Pacific Film Festival on May 3. Generations of artists call Robert A. Nakamura “the godfather of Asian American media,” but his son and the director of JANM’s Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center, Tadashi Nakamura, calls him Dad. As Parkinson’s disease clouds Robert’s memory, Tad sets out to retrieve his story—and in the process discovers his...
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LA Asian Pacific Film Festival at JANM
2025年05月01日 - 2025年05月07日
Celebrate with Visual Communications as they present the 41st edition of the VC Film Fest (Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival) from May 1–7, 2025. The festival is the premier showcase for the best and brightest of Asian Pacific cinema and has presented over 5,000 films, videos, and digital mediaworks by Asian and Pacific Islander artists since 1983.The Democracy Center at JANM is excited to be one of the LAAPFF ...
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JANM Book Club: By the Shore of Lake Michigan with Nancy Matsumoto
2025年04月27日
Celebrate National Poetry Month with By the Shore of Lake Michigan, a collection of tanka poetry originally published in 1960 by Issei immigrants, Tomiko and Ryokuyō Matsumoto. Join Nancy Matsumoto, the book’s editor and the granddaughter of Tomiko and Ryokuyō, as she dives into conversation about this new book with translators, Mariko Aratani and Kyoko Miyabe, and literary scholar, Eri F. Yasuhara, dean emerita of t...
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Ireicho National Tour—Manzanar
2025年04月26日 - 2025年04月27日
Appointments are no longer being accepted for this venue. 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...
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JANM Book Club: Every Peach Is a Story with Nikiko Masumoto
2025年04月19日
Celebrate Little Tokyo Earth Day with author and farmer Nikiko Masumoto as she shares about her debut picture book, Every Peach is a Story, written with her father, David Mas Masumoto, with illustrations by award-winning artist Lauren Tamaki.Every Peach Is a Story follows young Midori and her grandfather, Jiichan, as they uncover the stories of their farm’s fresh fruit and discover that every peach is a sweet reminde...
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New Film on Legendary Filmmaker Robert A. Nakamura to have Los Angeles Premiere May 3
2025年04月18日
Editors please note: JANM’s Pavilion is closed for renovation; programs will continue on the JANM campus and at other locations at janm.org/OnTheGo. LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) announces the Los Angeles premiere of Third Act on Saturday, May 3, 2025, at 6 p.m. at the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center as part of the 41st LA Asian Pacific Film Festival presented by Visual...
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JANM Raised Over $1.2 Million at the 2025 Benefit
2025年04月15日
The Museum Honored Toshizo Watanabe and Nobuko Miyamoto with the Lifetime Achievement Award and Judi Oyama with the Award of ExcellenceLOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) hosted its annual Benefit and Online Auction at the JW Marriott on Saturday, April 12, 2025. This year’s theme, Unlocking the Future, celebrated JANM’s critical past, dynamic present, and ambitious future through stories o...
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2025 Benefit & Online Auction
2025年04月12日
Celebrate our critical past, dynamic present, and ambitious future in the heart of downtown Los Angeles at Unlocking the Future, JANM’s 2025 Benefit and Online Auction. Embark on a major renovation with us to amplify our stories, inspire a more just future, and honor the legacy of the Japanese American community.Enjoy a special live performance by Judith Hill and celebrate the legacies of inspirational community lead...
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2025 Benefit & Online Auction
Thank you to everyone who joined us in person or via livestream for JANM’s 2025 Benefit! On behalf of the Board, staff, and volunteers, thank you to our sponsors and to everyone who helped 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.
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渡邉利三デモクラシー・フェローシップ 2025年度のフェロー選出者を発表
2025年04月10日
全米日系人博物館(ロサンゼルス)は、同館のデモクラシーセンター(ダニエル・K・イノウエ民主主義保存全米センター)のプログラムである「渡邉利三デモクラシー・フェローシップ」の2025年度フェローを発表しました。本フェローシップは、日本の若手・中堅世代を対象としたリーダーシップ・トレーニング・プログラムで、民主主義の価値や日米間の理解と協力を促すことによって、グローバルな民主主義を推進し、日米間の絆を強化することを目指すものです。2025年度のフェローは、石森孝志、河野美紗子、関本早冬、柴田莉沙、白川大介、白倉裕美、和島 歩、矢後千紘の8名(敬称略)です。「2025年度渡邉デモクラシー・フェローの皆さん、おめでとうございます。日系アメリカ人の経験というレンズを通して、アメリカに対する理解を深め、日米関係を強化していってくださることを期待しています。JANMは、日系アメリカ人の歴史と声を増幅させ、全ての人が自分たちの文化的な遺産の豊か...