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  • Japanese American Innovators from ArtCenter’s Transportation Design Program

    Nov 08, 2025

    Join JANM and ArtCenter for a panel that looks at the roles that Japanese American alumni from ArtCenter’s vaunted Transportation Design Program have played in shaping auto design over the last sixty years. The Transportation Design Program has produced generations of influential Japanese American designers that include Bud Sagano and Larry Shinoda (GM) in the 1950s, Tom Matano (Mazda) in the 1970s, Jon Ikeda (Honda/...

  • “Cruising J-Town”—JANM Members Curator Tour

    Nov 01, 2025

    This event has been rescheduled to Saturday, November 1 Meet us in Pasadena for a Members Only tour of JANM’s exhibition, Cruising J-Town: Behind the Wheel of the Nikkei Community, with exhibition curator Dr. Oliver Wang.Cruising J-Town tells the stories of influential figures and everyday car lovers alike. See the five classic cars anchoring the exhibition: George Nakamura’s 1940s “Meteor” hot rod; Brian Omatsu’s cu...

  • JANM Questions the Rewriting of US History in National Archives Exhibition Plans

    Nov 04, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) questions the National Archive and Record Administration’s plan, as reported in the Wall Street Journal last week, to remove references to historical events—including Dorothea Lange’s photographs of Japanese American incarceration during World War II, the federal government’s displacement of indigenous tribes, and Martin Luther King Jr. marching for civil...

  • JANM Mourns the Passing of Gary Y. Okihiro

    May 29, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) mourns the passing of renowned author and scholar, Gary Y. Okihiro. He was a visiting professor of American studies at Yale University, professor emeritus of international and public affairs at Columbia University, and founding director of Columbia’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race. “Okihiro’s work was instrumental to and deeply valued by J...

  • Perseverance at the Middlebury College Museum of Art (Middlebury, VT)

    Jun 10, 2016 - Aug 07, 2016

    TRAVELING EXHIBITION Middlebury College Museum of Art Middlebury, VT 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 misunderst...

  • Perseverance at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond, VA)

    May 29, 2015 - Nov 29, 2015

    TRAVELING EXHIBITION Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Richmond, VA 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 misunderstood ar...

  • PROF. SCOTT KURASHIGE TO DISCUSS 'SHIFTING GROUNDS OF RACE' ON SATURDAY, JULY 30

    Jul 28, 2011

    Professor Scott Kurashige will provide insight into his book, Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles, at a public program set for the Japanese American National Museum on Saturday, July 30, beginning at 2 p.m. Among Professor Kurashige’s insights is the fact that Los Angeles, now considered one of the most diverse metropolitan areas in the world, had the sma...

  • 'YEAR OF THE RABBIT: STAN SAKAI'S USAGI YOJIMBO' EXHIBITION TO OPEN JULY 9

    Jun 24, 2011

    The Japanese American National Museum will premiere its latest exhibition, Year of the Rabbit: Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo, on Saturday, July 9, featuring original art of the iconic comic book character and a new documentary on cartoonist Stan Sakai. Premiere Sponsor for the exhibition is Daruma. The show runs through October 30, 2011. Sakai’s samurai rabbit has become internationally famous since its inception 27 ...

  • AUTHOR JOHN CHRISTGAU TO DISCUSS TREATMENT OF 'ENEMY ALIENS' DURING WW II

    Aug 19, 2010

    Examination of the United States Government’s Enemy Alien Internment Program, which operated from 1941 to 1946, is the subject of a public program featuring author John Christgau on Saturday, August 28, beginning at 2 p.m., at the Japanese American National Museum. Christgau is the author of the book, Enemies: World War II Alien Internment, as well as a collaborator on the photo exhibit, "The Alien Enemy Files: Hi...

  • AUTHOR TO DISCUSS BOOK ON 'NURSE OF MANZANAR' ON JULY 18

    Jul 03, 2009

    The book, Nurse of Manzanar, based on a lost manuscript by Nisei Toshiko Eto Nakamura, who was a registered nurse when World War II broke out, will be the subject of a public program at the Japanese American National Museum on Saturday, July 18, beginning at 2 p.m. Samuel Nakamura, Toshiko’s only son, discovered the manuscript after his mother’s death in 1994. The manuscript was written shortly after the end of Wo...