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  • Okaeri 2023 Conference

    Nov 10, 2023 - Nov 12, 2023

    Okaeri’s 5th Biennial Conference on November 10-12, 2023 is a gathering that centers the Japanese and Japanese American LGBTQ+ experience. The conference seeks to: build community educate provide support foster understanding and inclusion for the Japanese and Japanese American LGBTQ+ community While conference content centers the specific interests, issues, and concerns of the Japanese and Japanes...

  • “Benkyodo: The Last Manju Shop in J-Town” and “Atomic Café”

    Sep 10, 2023

    Join us for the Los Angeles Premiere of Benkyodo: The Last Manju Shop in J-Town and a screening of ATOMIC CAFÉ: The Noisiest Corner in J-Town. Akira Boch and Tadashi Nakamura, the former and current directors of JANM’s Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center, directed these two short documentaries that explore themes of gentrification, displacement, and community power with humor and heart. Director Tadashi Nakamura wil...

  • New Work by Glenn Kaino Coming to JANM June 30, 2023 – January 28, 2024

    May 16, 2023

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will present Aki’s Market, a new and uniquely personal project by acclaimed multimedia artist and filmmaker Glenn Akira Kaino from June 30, 2023–January 28, 2024. Glenn Kaino: Aki’s Market is inspired by the small neighborhood market created and run by Akira and Sachiye Shiraishi in Los Angeles from 1957–1970. Created by the grandson and namesake of A...

  • Sugar/Islands: Finding Okinawa in Hawai‘i—The Art of Laura Kina and Emily Hanako Momohara - Events

    Programs are free for museum members and included with admission for visitors, unless otherwise noted. To see a complete listing of JANM’s upcoming programs, check out our Events Calendar.

  • National Center for the Preservation of Democracy Fellowship

    NCPD@JANM Fellowships The National Center for the Preservation of Democracy at the Japanese American National Museum (NCPD@JANM) and Asian Americans Advancing Justice–Los Angeles (Advancing Justice-LA) have selected two artists—Audrey Chan and jason chu—as its two artists in residence for 2022. They will develop new art projects that will explore the theme of anti-Asian hate and racism. Visual artist Chan and r...

  • Glenn Kaino: Aki’s Market—Artist

    Glenn Kaino was born in 1972 in Los Angeles. His studio practice includes sculpture, painting, filmmaking, performance, installation, and large-scale public work. He also operates outside the traditional purview of contemporary art, instigating collaborations with other modes of culture—ranging from tech to music to political organizing. Major solo exhibitions of Kaino’s work have been presented at MASS MoCA, High ...

  • Renovation Information

    Redesigning the JANM CampusIn January 2025, JANM will begin work on the most significant change to its Pavilion since it opened in 1999—a renovation of our Pavilion and an ambitious reimagining of our core exhibition.Over the next two years, JANM will create a new core exhibition, In the Future We Call Now: Realities of Racism, Dreams of Democracy. The exhibition will re-imagine how it tells the stories of Japanese A...

  • Our Promise—Revitalize

    Redesign and repurpose JANM’s campus to provide welcoming, cohesive, and dynamic spaces for everyone ($25 million). Our new core exhibition will take visitors on a journey that begins with curiosity and ends with action.The Japanese American story is a quintessential American story in the making. Our core exhibition will showcase the American story as one that is—and has always been—intrinsically multiracial, mult...

  • Our Promise—Amplify

    Re-energize the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy as a platform for civic engagement with events and issues that shape our nation—including race, the fragility of democracy, shared values, civil rights and social justice, and the arts ($7.5 million). As we reimagine our spaces, we must also reshape our programs to tell stories in powerful ways through the National Center for the Preservation of Dem...

  • Hirasaki National Resource Center

    Since its inception in 1985, the Japanese American National Museum has chronicled more than 130 years of Japanese American history—from the first Issei generation through the World War II incarceration to the present-day. In 1999, the museum established the Manabi and Sumi Hirasaki National Resource Center (HNRC) to ensure that the story of Japanese Americans remains accessible to everyone.