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  • Ireichō National Tour Launch in Washington, DC

    Feb 18, 2025 - Feb 21, 2025

    The national tour of the Ireichō will launch in Washington DC, where Executive Order 9066 that led to the mass incarceration of the Japanese American community on the Pacific Coast was issued, presented in conjunction with the National Archives and Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History for Day of Remembrance.Tuesday, February 18National Archives 2025 Day of Remembrance program including panel discussion a...

  • JANM Mourns the Passing of The Rafu Shimpo Photojournalist, Mario Gershom Reyes

    Feb 04, 2025

    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) mourns the passing of Mario Gershom Reyes, a longtime photojournalist for The Rafu Shimpo. He documented the milestones, tragedies, and the victories of the Los Angeles Japanese American community for four de...

  • JANM’s Discover Nikkei Project Celebrates Twenty Years of Global Community with February 8 Festival

    Jan 30, 2025

    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 – Discover Nikkei, a web-based project of the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) that promotes connections and understanding among the global Japanese diaspora, will launch a year-long celebration of the online community’s twentieth anniversary with...

  • Behind the Scenes of the Ireichō National Tour (Virtual)

    Jan 29, 2025

    This year, JANM will partner with The Irei Project and USC’s Duncan Ryuken Williams to travel the Ireichō in conjunction with pilgrimages to a number of former War Relocation Authority, Department of Justice, and Wartime Civil Control Administration incarceration sites.Get a behind-the-scenes look at how the Ireichō came to be through a talk by Duncan Ryuken Williams and find out how to contribute to this national mo...

  • JANM’s Democracy Center Reschedules Inaugural Irene Hirano Inouye Distinguished Lecture to March 14

    Jan 28, 2025

    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 – Due to the recent Los Angeles fires, the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) has rescheduled the inaugural Irene Hirano Inouye Distinguished Lecture with guest speaker Lonnie G. Bunch III, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, to Friday, March ...

  • JANM Mourns the Passing of Dr. Keith Terasaki

    Jan 22, 2025

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) mourns the passing of Dr. Keith Terasaki, a longtime supporter of JANM and many other educational and cultural institutions. A graduate of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Dr. Terasaki trained at the Los Angeles County Hospital and Stanford University. His distinguished career in medicine included work as an Interventional Radiologist at the K...

  • JANM Mourns the Passing of Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

    Jan 21, 2025

    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) mourns the passing of Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, coauthor of Farewell to Manzanar. Born in Inglewood, California, on September 26, 1934, she grew up in Santa Monica. Her mother cared for their family of ten ch...

  • 2025 DOR Los Angeles Save the Date Press Release

    Jan 07, 2025

    LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Day of Remembrance (DOR) Committee announced that the annual DOR will be held on Saturday, February 15, 2025, at 2:00pm. This year we will move from our usual host location at the Japanese American National Museum to LA Hompa Hongwanji Buddhist Temple or “Nishi Betsuin” (815 1st St). DOR commemorates the signing of Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, by President Franklin D. Roose...

  • The Oath of the Sword—Film Screening and Discussion

    May 28, 2023

    JANM presents the premiere screening of the recently restored silent film The Oath of the Sword at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Los Angeles. Once thought to be lost, this 1914 film by the Japanese American Film Company was recently rediscovered by scholar Denise Khor at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York. When Masao leaves Japan to study at UC Berkeley, he also leaves his lover, Hisa, who i...

  • Allen Say’s Journey

    Jul 28, 2000 - Feb 11, 2001

    Allen Say’s Journey: The Art and Words of a Children’s Book Author is the first retrospective exhibition of the art of Allen Say, award-winning children’s book author and illustrator. His drawings, watercolor paintings, and prose explore themes of longing, belonging, and the meaning of “home.” Through the internal conflicts of his characters and their search for identity and self-discovery, one can glimpse into Say’s...