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  • JANM Announces the Recent Accolades of Its Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center

    Apr 26, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) is pleased to announce the recent award and accomplishments of its Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center (MAC). MAC’s short documentary film, Benkyodo: The Last Manju Shop in J-Town, won the Audience Award for Best Documentary Short at the Seattle Asian American Film Festival and was nominated for Best Documentary Short at the Disorient Asian American Film Fe...

  • JANM Celebrates World Premiere of Documentary on Artist and Activist Nobuko Miyamoto

    Apr 15, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) announces the world premiere of Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement on Saturday, May 4, 2024, at 6 p.m. at the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center as part of the VC Film Fest. Directed by Tadashi Nakamura, the director of JANM’s Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center (MAC), and Quyên Nguyen-Le, a Daytime Emmy–nominated queer Vietnamese filmmaker, Nob...

  • JANM Presents a Special Taiko Performance with On Ensemble on October 21, 2023

    Oct 05, 2023

    LOS ANGELES, CA – On Ensemble, one of the most respected ensembles in the taiko world, will perform at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) on Saturday, October 21, 2023 from 8 p.m.–11 p.m. On 22 : Twenty-Two Years of Creativity will be the group’s only Los Angeles performance in 2023. Tickets are $45 ($40 for JANM members) and are available online at janm.org/events. Established in 2002 by childhood fri...

  • Book Launch Celebration—RISE: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now

    Mar 04, 2022

    FREE Join for a celebration of the new book RISE: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now by Jeff Yang, Phil Yu, and Philip Wang. RISE is a love letter to and for Asian Americans—a vivid scrapbook of voices, emotions, and memories from an era in which our culture was forged and transformed, and a way to preserve both the headlines and the intimate conversations that have shaped our community in...

  • A Taste of Home: Recipes for Celebration

    Dec 13, 2020

    FREE For many holidays, both distinctly “American” and traditionally Japanese, Japanese American families share meals specifically prepared for the occasion. From oshogatsu (New Years Day) to Christmas, these flavors are closely tied to memories, festivities, and cultural practices. Even while incarcerated during WWII, Japanese Americans held on to their traditions and celebrations, highlighting their persever...

  • Tales of Little Tokyo

    Jan 11, 2020

    Two performances: 2 p.m.–3:30 p.m. 7 p.m.–8:30 p.m. FREE! Tales of Little Tokyo is a live theatrical reading of memories drawn from over 50 interviews with Los Angeles residents about their relationship to the oldest and largest Japanese American community in the United States. Today this 135+ year old landmark of Japanese American history faces serious threats to its existence as the relentle...

  • FREE SCREENING OF "CRIMSON KIMONO," CLASSIC FILM NOIR MOVIE FILMED IN LITTLE TOKYO, SET FOR JANM ON OCT. 17 AS PART OF HAUNTED LITTLE TOKYO FILM FESTIVAL

    Oct 01, 2019

    Los Angeles, CA A free outdoor screening of the classic Sam Fuller movie, The Crimson Kimono (1959), will be held in the plaza of the Japanese American National Museum on Thursday, October 17, beginning at 8 p.m. This event is part of the annual Haunted Little Tokyo Film Festival and is organized in partnership with Visual Communications and JANM. The Crimson Kimono is a groundbreaking film on several levels. F...

  • JANM’S FREE OSHOGATSU FAMILY FESTIVAL WELCOMES THE YEAR OF THE BOAR

    Dec 11, 2018

    Los Angeles, CA—The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will present its annual Oshogatsu Family Festival on Sunday, January 6, 2019, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission to the new year celebration featuring Japanese and Japanese American performances, crafts, and activities is free and all ages are welcome to help ring in the Year of the Boar. Highlights of the day will include two mochitsuki (rice pounding) de...

  • NEW ‘JIVE BOMBER’ CAST LEARNS REAL HISTORY FROM JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM VOLUNTEERS

    Dec 01, 2000

    LOS ANGELES—In preparing for the new production of the critically-acclaimed musical “A Jive Bomber’s Christmas" set for shows at the Japanese American National Museum on Dec. 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16 and 17, the show’s creators wanted their new cast to have a clear understanding of the characters they would be portraying in this play located in a World War II U.S. concentration camp where thousands of Japanese Americans ...

  • New "Jive Bomber" Cast Learns Real History From Japanese American National Museum Volunteers

    Dec 01, 2000

    In preparing for the new production of the critically-acclaimed musical A Jive Bomber’s Christmas set for shows at the Japanese American National Museum on December 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, and 17, the show’s creators wanted their new cast to have a clear understanding of the characters they would be portraying in this play located in a World War II U.S. concentration camp where thousands of Japanese Americans were un...