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  • Celebrating Little Tokyo at 140 Years

    Aug 10, 2024 - Jan 05, 2025

    Celebrate Little Tokyo’s 140th anniversary with JANM and other Little Tokyo community organizations with the new pop-up exhibit, Celebrating Little Tokyo at 140 Years, now on view in JANM’s Manabi and Sumi Hirasaki National Resource Center through January 5, 2025.The display explores the anniversary’s theme, “Celebrating Our Legacy. Persevering for Our Future.” Highlights include artifacts and items from Koharu resta...

  • The Crimson Kimono at the Academy Museum

    Jul 21, 2024

    JANM is a Community Partner for the Academy Museum’s screening of the 1959 film The Crimson Kimono. JANM’s Chief Curator Karen Ishizuka is introducing the film. About the FilmJames Shigeta and Glenn Corbett depict two Los Angeles detectives who fall in love with the same woman, Christine (Victoria Shaw), in Samuel Fuller’s 1959 noir The Crimson Kimono. Fuller’s groundbreaking feature stimulates more than a sensationa...

  • JANM’s Discover Nikkei Project Seeks Stories About Names for Nikkei Chronicles 13

    Jun 03, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – Discover Nikkei, a web-based project of the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) that promotes connections and understanding among the global Japanese diaspora, announces the 13th edition of its Nikkei Chronicles special series, an annual, themed open call for writings. This year’s theme, Nikkei Names 2: Grace, Graça, Graciela, Megumi?, calls for stories, essays, and vignettes that explore t...

  • JANM Congratulates Trustee Stephen Kagawa

    May 02, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) congratulates JANM Trustee Stephen Kagawa, who recently received the Will G. Farrell Public Service Award from the Los Angeles chapter of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (NAIFA-Los Angeles). A NAIFA-Los Angeles member since 1986, Kagawa connects finance professionals in insurance, investing, banking, tax, and law to ethnic...

  • JANM Book Club: My Lost Freedom with George Takei

    Apr 21, 2024

    Join author, George Takei, and illustrator, Michelle Lee, for a reading, conversation, and signing of their new children’s book, My Lost Freedom, a moving and true story about growing up in Japanese American concentration camps during World War II. About the BookIn My Lost Freedom, George Takei looks back at his own memories of the Santa Anita racetrack, Rohwer concentration camp, and Tule Lake Segregation Center to ...

  • George Takei to Discuss His New Book at JANM April 21

    Apr 11, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – Actor and activist George Takei will discuss and sign his new children’s book My Lost Freedom: A Japanese American World War II Story at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) on April 21, 2024 from 2 p.m.–3:30 p.m. The iconic Star Trek actor, a dedicated charter member, trustee and chair emeritus of the JANM Board of Trustees, will be joined by the book’s illustrator Michelle Lee, for a r...

  • 2024 Benefit & Online Auction

    Apr 06, 2024

    We joined together on April 6, 2024 at the Vibiana for a transcendent evening of exquisite dining, musical performances, Lexus Opportunity Drawing, and our special program that weaves poignant lessons of the Japanese American community with vibrant promises of the future to light our path forward.

  • Benkyodo: The Last Manju Shop in J-Town at the Seattle Asian American Film Festival

    Feb 25, 2024

    Benkyodo: The Last Manju Shop in J-Town will be screening at the 2024 Seattle Asian American Film Festival, which will be held in-person February 22–25; virtually February 26 – March 3. This short documentary film is being presented as part of the Have You Eaten Yet? Shorts Program. ABOUT THE FILM Ricky and Bobby Okamura, the current owners of Benkyodo mochi shop, make a difficult decision to close their f...

  • Tatau: Marks of Polynesia - Store

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  • Tatau: Marks of Polynesia - Press

    For press inquiries, email mediarelations@janm.org or call 213.625.0414. Press Photo Gallery (Password Access Only—contact mediarelations@janm.org for access.)