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Contested Histories at MIS Historic Learning Center (San Francisco, CA)
2025年09月19日 - 2026年01月10日
TRAVELING DISPLAYPresented by National Japanese American Historical Society (NJAHS) at:Military Intelligence Service Historic Learning Center Building 640Presidio of San FranciscoFor more information, visit njahs.org/building-640. During World War II, Japanese Americans incarcerated in America's concentration camps demonstrated their resilience, ingenuity, and creativity, from crafting necessities like furniture and ...
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Silencing History: Protecting Truth in Public Spaces and Museums
2025年09月15日
Across the country, National Park Service sites are becoming ground zero in a growing battle over historical memory. Signs with QR codes invite the public to report “negative” or “unpatriotic” portrayals of American history. On the surface, these codes claim to ensure “accuracy.” But for communities like Japanese Americans, who have fought for decades to have the truth of their incarceration recognized, this devel...
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Cruising J-Town Mini-Meet: Street Racers Reunion
2025年09月13日
Grab a cup of coffee and join the street racing and import tuner scene reunion that’s part of JANM’s exhibition, Cruising J-Town: Behind the Wheel of the Nikkei Community. This event will showcase a selection of a dozen cars that reflect the merging of two scenes that many Japanese Americans and Asian Americans participated in from the 1970s through the 2000s.Please note that cars must be invited to join the main ev...
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JANM Questions US Supreme Court’s Decision to Lift Restrictions on Race-Based Immigration Stops in the Los Angeles Area
2025年09月09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) is deeply troubled by the US Supreme Court’s decision to lift restrictions on immigration stops in the greater Los Angeles area. The Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision lifted a restraining order from US District Ju...
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Saturday, September 13 Cruising J-Town Mini-Meet Showcases Cars, Coffee, and Street Racers Reunion
2025年09月08日
PSAWHAT:Grab a cup of coffee and join the street racing and import tuner scene reunion that’s part of JANM’s exhibition, Cruising J-Town: Behind the Wheel of the Nikkei Community.WHEN:Saturday, September 13, 2025, from 10 a.m.–12 p.m. PDTDETAILS:This special event will showcase a selection of a dozen cars that reflect the merging of two scenes that many Japanese Americans and Asian Americans participated in from the ...
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“Third Act” at the Chicago History Museum
2025年09月07日
JANM is proud to present Third Act at the Chicago History Museum on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2025. 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 own.Using the lesso...
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Ireicho National Tour—Fort Lincoln, North Dakota
2025年09月05日 - 2025年09月06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...
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From the Street to the World: Legacies of the Import Car Scene
2025年08月30日
Dive into the world of import tuners with a panel discussion about the roots of the import car scene, beginning with its earliest emergence in the 1970s through the explosion of interest in the 1980s through 2000s.Cruising J-Town exhibition curator Oliver Wang will be in conversation with a range of panelists including Robert Jung, founding member of the Nikkei racing club Westside Racing Association; Tim Mochizuki, ...
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Saturday, August 30 Cruising J-Town Program Highlights Key Influencers of the Import Car Scene
2025年08月26日
Media AdvisoryWHAT:Dive into the world of import tuners with a panel discussion about the roots of the import car scene, beginning with its earliest emergence in the 1970s through the explosion of interest in the 1980s through 2000s.Join the conversation as they talk about how Japanese imports made inroads into the American car scene in the 1970s and how two generations of Japanese American and other Asian American y...
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Japanese American History and Art from JANM’s Collection at Furukawa Art Museum (Nagoya, Japan)
2025年08月23日 - 2025年09月21日
TRAVELING EXHIBITIONFurukawa Art MuseumNagoya, JapanTuesday - Sunday: 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Closed on MondaysWeb: furukawa-museum.or.jp/en As the leading institution in the United States that collects and preserves the history and culture of Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans, the Japanese American National Museum is delighted to share the diverse artistic talent from our collection.These works of art—present...