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  • Film Screening and Discussion—"Moving Walls: American Nightmare to American Dream"

    Dec 09, 2017

    Join us for the LA premiere of a new documentary about what became of the barracks built to house 11,000 Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain concentration camp. The film features interviews with former prisoners as well as the people who live in and use the structures today. Filmmaker Sharon Yamato is also the author of the recently updated book, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps, wh...

  • Film Screening and Discussion—And Then They Came For Us

    Nov 27, 2017

    Join us for the Los Angeles premiere of a new documentary film grappling with the legacy of the World War II mass incarceration of Japanese Americans. Featuring Takei and many others who were incarcerated, as well as newly rediscovered photographs by Dorothea Lange, And Then They Came For Us brings history into the present, retelling this difficult story and following Japanese American activists as they speak out aga...

  • FREE ADMISSION ALL DAY

    Jan 20, 2017

    In recognition of democracy and the fragility of constitutional protections, JANM will be offering free admission all day.

  • Perseverance at The Japan Foundation, Sydney (Chippendale, AUSTRALIA)

    Sep 28, 2016 - Nov 12, 2016

    TRAVELING EXHIBITION The Japan Foundation, Sydney Chippendale, AUSTRALIA Perseverance: Japanese Tattoo Tradition in a Modern World is a groundbreaking photographic exhibition that explores the master craftsmanship of traditional Japanese tattoos and their enduring influence on modern tattoo practices. Even as Japanese-style tattooing has moved into the mainstream, it remains an enigmatic and misund...

  • Film Screening and Panel Discussion—"The Empty Chair"

    Apr 02, 2016

    In 1942, Alaska native John Tanaka was going to be the valedictorian of his high school graduating class, but was scheduled to be incarcerated by the U.S. government before the ceremony could take place. In response, the Juneau school board voted to hold a special early graduation ceremony for him. When the official ceremony was held for the class of ’42, they set aside an empty chair on the platform to acknowledge...

  • 16 Years Later: The Heart Mountain Barracks

    Aug 07, 2010

    In 1994, the Japanese American National Museum staff and volunteers organized a project to travel to Heart Mountain, Wyoming to take apart and bring back to Los Angeles two fragments of original barracks buildings built by the U.S. government to house Japanese Americans unfairly imprisoned during World War II. The project was part of the National Museum’s landmark exhibition, America’s Concentration Camps: Rememberin...

  • Songs for a New World

    Oct 16, 2009

    October 16-18 8 PM shows on Friday/Saturday, 2 PM on Sunday Opening Night (Friday, October 16): $35 (includes post show reception); no special rates for this evening ALL OTHER NIGHTS: $25 general admission $20 seniors, students and groups of 10 or more YES AND…PRODUCTIONS proudly presents Jason Robert Brown’s SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD. With a small, passionate cast and a driving, exquisitely crafted score, SO...

  • CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION RETROSPECTIVE ART EXHIBIT OPENS AT MUSEUM OCT. 4

    Oct 02, 2008

    The California Community Foundation (CCF), the Getty Foundation and the Japanese American National Museum on Saturday, Oct. 4, launched a three-month retrospective featuring the works of 33 recipients of the foundation’s Fellowships for Visual Artists from the past 20 years. Co-sponsored by the Getty Foundation, the exhibit is entitled "Twenty Years Ago Today: Supporting Individual Artists in L.A,’" and runs throu...

  • kip fulbeck: part asian, 100% hapa EXHIBITION SET FOR NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MARCH 10-MAY 30

    Mar 07, 2008

    The widely-acclaimed traveling photographic exhibition, kip fulbeck: part asian, 100% hapa, organized by the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, with the support, in part, by the James Irvine Foundation, will be installed at New York University’s Asian/Pacific/American Institute from March 10 to May 30. The original exhibition, which opened in 2006 at the National Museum, featured 80 photographic por...

  • International Scholars discuss U.S. History: "Thrust into the Mainstream: American Assimilation Policies" at Japanese American National Museum July 24

    Jul 24, 1999

    The Japanese American National Museum will host an afternoon of engaging lectures comparing two strikingly similar instances of the United States government implementing racial policies: Japanese American "resettlement" after World War II and Native American "relocation" in the 1950s, on Saturday, July 24 at 1 p.m. The discussion will revolve around Dillon S. Myer, director of the War Relocation Authority (WRA), an...