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  • Outdoor Movie Screening: "The Crimson Kimono" (1959)

    Oct 17, 2019

    FREE and open to the public The Crimson Kimono is presented by the Haunted Little Tokyo Film Festival in partnership with the Japanese American National Museum and Visual Communications. This 1959 black and white film stars James Shigeta as Detective Joe Kojaku and Glenn Corbett as Detective Sgt. Charlie Bancroft—two cops who are friends and Korean War veterans who attempt to solve the murder of a local e...

  • Past Present: Conversations with the Future

    Aug 28, 2019 - Aug 30, 2019

    FREE, open to the public on the JANM Plaza Wednesday–Friday, August 28–30 • 7:30 p.m.–10 p.m. Pulling together the moving parts of her +LAB residency experience, traci kato-kiriyama—with home base JANM—presents a performance-installation utilizing large-scale projections and sound scapes of letters of the past in conversation with the present. From sunset to 10 p.m. each night, the public can enjoy a loop o...

  • JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM APPOINTS KAREN ISHIZUKA CHIEF CURATOR

    Jun 06, 2018

    Los Angeles, CA—Ann Burroughs, President and CEO of the Japanese American National Museum, has announced the appointment of Karen L. Ishizuka to the position of Chief Curator. Ishizuka’s charge is to develop and chair a national Scholarly Advisory Council to help shape the museum’s curatorial direction and intellectual agenda. Ishizuka was previously on staff at the museum as media producer, curator, and director ...

  • "Common Ground" Conversations—SPEAKING OUT

    Jan 26, 2017

    FREE JANM presents a four-week series of public conversations taking place within our core exhibition, Common Ground: The Heart of Community. Each conversation, which will be facilitated by a member of our education staff and follow a guiding theme, is intended to generate meaningful dialogue among guests, utilizing Japanese American history to delve into contemporary issues and concerns. Portions of the exhibitio...

  • "Common Ground" Conversations—TRANSPARENCY

    Jan 19, 2017

    FREE JANM presents a four-week series of public conversations taking place within our core exhibition, Common Ground: The Heart of Community. Each conversation, which will be facilitated by a member of our education staff and follow a guiding theme, is intended to generate meaningful dialogue among guests, utilizing Japanese American history to delve into contemporary issues and concerns. Portions of the exhib...

  • "Common Ground" Conversations—COMPASSION

    Jan 12, 2017

    FREE JANM presents a four-week series of public conversations taking place within our core exhibition, Common Ground: The Heart of Community. Each conversation, which will be facilitated by a member of our education staff and follow a guiding theme, is intended to generate meaningful dialogue among guests, utilizing Japanese American history to delve into contemporary issues and concerns. Portions of the exhib...

  • Compassion and Charity—and Chocolates: The Nisei Soldier Contribution to Rebuilding Japan

    Aug 08, 2015

    Early August marks the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II and the beginning of the Allied occupation of Japan. This panel discussion will focus on the role of the mostly-Nisei branch of the Military Intelligence Service (MIS) in the rebuilding of Japan after the war. MIS veterans will discuss the duties of the Nisei soldiers and how their acts of kindness and charity toward the Japanese people helped ...

  • DOCUMENTARY ON PIONEER CONGRESSWOMAN PATSY MINK TO SCREEN OCT. 30

    Oct 23, 2010

    "Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority", an award-winning documentary that chronicles the life of pioneer Congresswoman Patsy Mink, will be screened on Saturday, Oct. 30, at 2 p.m. at the Japanese American National Museum. Mink, the first woman of color to be elected to Congress in 1965, spent her life fighting racial and gender discrimination and left a lasting legacy with her authoring of the Title IX legislation th...

  • From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i - Press

    For press inquiries, email mediarelations@janm.org or call 213.625.0414.

  • Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past in Los Angeles—Calendar of Events

    Check out the programs being presented by the various partners from December 1–17, 2023.