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JANM’s Pavilion is closed for renovation and will reopen in late 2026. While the museum and store are closed, join us for programs and events on our Little Tokyo campus, throughout Southern California, and beyond. 

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  • "Common Ground" Exhibition Tour

    Jun 03, 2017

    Tour the ongoing exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community with JANM’s knowledgeable docents. Free with museum admission.

  • "Uprooted" Members Preview Day and Reception

    Sep 25, 2016

    All JANM members are invited to preview the exhibition Uprooted: Japanese American Farm Labor Camps During World War II before it opens to the public on Tuesday, September 27. Join us at 2 p.m. for a talk with exhibition curator Morgen Young and James Tanaka, a JANM volunteer whose parents worked at the labor camp in Twin Falls, Idaho, when he was a child. Light reception to follow. RSVP for the program by Sep...

  • TAIKOPROJECT Summer Intensive

    Jul 17, 2015 - Jul 20, 2015

    Friday–Monday, July 17–20, 2015 This intensive weekend workshop for advanced taiko players is the first of its kind in Los Angeles. Delving into various techniques, TAIKOPROJECT will inspire participants from all over the world with its unique and innovative approach to the Japanese American art form. Topics to be covered include odaiko (big drum), multi-drum set technique, katsugi okedo (sling drum), hip-hop t...

  • JANM Members Invited to Descanso Gardens' Camellia and Tea Festival

    Mar 01, 2015

    JANM MEMBERS: FREE ADMISSION TO DESCANSO GARDENS ALL DAY! Descanso Gardens invites JANM members to enjoy its award-winning camellia collection, recognized as the largest in North America. Partly built with plants supplied by F.M. Uyematsu of Star Nursery and F.W. Yoshimura of Mission Nursery as incarceration loomed in 1942, the collection is uniquely tied to local Japanese American history. Show your curr...

  • "Starting from Loomis and Other Stories" by Hiroshi Kashiwagi

    Jan 18, 2014

    FREE Dr. Lane Ryo Hirabayashi presents a memoir by accomplished writer, playwright, poet, and actor Hiroshi Kashiwagi. Edited with an introduction by Tim Yamamura, the book chronicles Kashiwagi’s confinement at Tule Lake, the stigma of being labeled a “No-No Boy,” and the traumas of racism. Q&A with Kashiwagi and Yamamura to follow. This program is co-sponsored by the Aratani Endowed Chair, UCLA Asian American...

  • Anime Mini-Film Festival: POW! WHIZ! BAM!

    Aug 06, 2011

    Visual Communications in association with the Japanese American National Museum will present its first annual animation film festival.The day-long event titled POW! WHIZ! BAM! offers a gourmet set-menu of animation works.Screenings will include an intimate showcase with local animators; ICE, a sci-fi post-apocalyptic lesbian Romeo and Juliet; and TRIGUN: BADLANDS RUMBLE, the classic Japanese shoot-em-up caper now re-...

  • Smithsonian Museum Free-For-All

    Sep 30, 2006

    On September 30, 2006, for one day only, the Japanese American National Museum, along with other museums across the country will join the Smithsonian Institution in its long-standing tradition of offering free admission to visitors. For the first time, Museum Day is open to the general public as well as Smithsonian magazine's subscribers. To download and print your free Museum Day card, visit www.smithsonian.com/mu...

  • "The Pink Dress" Puppet Show

    Jun 04, 2005

    The Pink Dress is based on an actual episode from the Maruyama family's history in the Amache Concentration Camp. Faced with wearing the required drab uniform, Tsuki decides to wear her sister's pink dress to her junior high school graduation to prove she is not "an ant," but an individual. This poignant puppet theater piece features original music and various forms of traditional and innovative puppetry, and addres...

  • Fresh Words & Actions: "Kabuki Underground" by Miki Nishikawa

    Jul 24, 2003

    PERFORMING ARTS SERIES Kabuki Underground is a play about six people who live in an apartment complex where the circuit breakers go out all too often. The characters that come to life in the "dark" include an ailing grandfather and his recently widowed granddaughter, an agoraphobic photographer, a husband who doesn't just water the lawn on his day off, an alcoholic underground kabuki actor, a mime, and alongside the...

  • Henry Sugimoto

    Mar 24, 2001 - Oct 07, 2001

    At the age of 19, Henry Sugimoto left Japan to make his life in America. Determined to become an artist, he studied in the San Francisco Bay Area and exhibited nationally and internationally.When he was unjustly incarcerated at 42 in the Jerome and Rohwer concentration camps in Arkansas, the experience irreversibly affected how he viewed himself, his art, and the Japanese American experience. The only thing that rema...