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  • 2025 Natsumatsuri Family Festival is on Saturday, August 16

    Jul 22, 2025

    PSAWHAT: Celebrate summer with us at JANM’s Democracy Center and the Norman Y. Mineta Democracy Plaza featuring free cultural performances, crafts, and activities for families and kids of all ages!The festival is sponsored by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Nissan Foundation, and the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture. The media sponsor is The Rafu Shimpo, and the promotional ...

  • Ireicho National Tour—Minidoka

    Jul 11, 2025 - Jul 13, 2025

    JANM is partnering with The Irei Project and USC’s Duncan Ryuken Williams to travel The Ireichō: Book of Names in conjunction with pilgrimages to all ten former War Relocation Authority concentration camps, to other Department of Justice and Wartime Civil Control Administration incarceration sites, and selected cities across the US. The tour is part of JANM on the Go, a series of programs and exhibitions presented ac...

  • World Premiere of Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement at the VC Film Fest

    May 04, 2024

    JANM is proud to present the world premiere of Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement, at the VC Film Fest in Los Angeles on May 4, 2024. Experience this new sweeping documentary from JANM’s Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center and PBS SoCal that follows the life of visionary artist-activist Nobuko Miyamoto and her work that changed Asian America forever. Featuring rare archival footage, Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Mo...

  • 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...

  • The Japanese American National Museum Mourns the Passing of Tomio Ito, Former Member of the Museum's Board of Governors

    Feb 24, 2023

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) is saddened by the recent passing of Tomio Ito, who served as a member of the Museum’s Board of Governors from 1996–2014. Ito’s parents, Gonsaku and Mine, came from Yokkaichi, Japan, to California in 1918 in search of a prosperous life. They eventually settled in Venice, where Tomio was born in 1924. He learned English and Japanese, worked on the farm,...

  • Two Day Workshop—Shibori Explorations

    Nov 05, 2022 - Nov 06, 2022

    $76 members, $95 non-members. Plus $40 materials fee due to the instructor at the beginning of class (cash only). Limited to 15 participants. One spot left! Come and join in this indigo and shibori workshop to practice, learn and enjoy all the creativity shibori has to offer! The class will explore a variety of traditional Japanese fabric dyeing techniques, including stitching, clamping, binding, and pole wrapp...

  • JANM’S 2019 NATSUMATSURI FAMILY FESTIVAL OFFERS FREE FUN FOR EVERYONE

    Jul 24, 2019

    Los Angeles, CA—The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will present its annual Natsumatsuri Family Festival on Saturday, August 10, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission to the summer celebration featuring Japanese and Japanese American performances, crafts, and activities is free. Craft activities will include origami, shave ice suncatchers, and JANM’s ever-popular paper hat making. Visitors will also be able to...

  • "AT FIRST LIGHT" DAWNS AT JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM

    May 14, 2019

    Los Angeles, CA—At First Light: The Dawning of Asian Pacific America, a multi-media exhibition that explores and celebrates the emergence of a politically defined Asian Pacific American consciousness and identity, will open at the Japanese American National Museum on May 25 and remain on view through October 20, 2019. The exhibition is a co-production of JANM and Visual Communications (VC), the first Asian Pacific Am...

  • “Ansel Adams at Manzanar” Features over 50 Vintage Prints of Life in World War II Concentration Camp

    Oct 06, 2006

    Ansel Adams at Manzanar features the original work of one of America’s most famous photographers, who, during World War II, documented life in an American concentration camp. This exhibition opens at the Japanese American National Museum on Saturday, November 11, 2006, and will run through February 18, 2007. Organized by the Honolulu Academy of Arts, Ansel Adams at Manzanar includes more than 50 vintage prints from t...

  • Public Program and Book Signing cosponsored by the Embassy of Japan, the Smithsonian

    Nov 01, 2003

    Carmichael Auditorium, National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C. Scholars from Brazil, Canada, and the United States will discuss two new landmark publications that explore the current status of Nikkei in the Americas as well as common attributes Nikkei share, especially in terms of the family, the position of women, religion, education, politics, and economics. For more information, please contact ...