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  • Breakfast & Ballots (Cal Matters)

    Oct 01, 2024

    Do you have questions about the election? How does Prop 5 make it easier for local governments to borrow money? Why would Prop 36 partly roll back another proposition that voters approved in 2014? Join Dan Hu and CalMatters as they analyze and answer your burning questions about this year’s ballot propositions in a conversation around the latest edition of their Voter Guide. This event is free and open to all. Contin...

  • JANM to Open Contested Histories: Preserving and Sharing a Community Collection on October 19

    Sep 04, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will present the exhibition, Contested Histories: Preserving and Sharing a Community Collection, on view from October 19, 2024 – January 5, 2025. The online press gallery is available at janm.org/press/images/contested-histories. During World War II, Japanese Americans incarcerated in America's concentration camps demonstrated their resilience, ingenuity...

  • The Japanese American National Museum Condemns Vandalism at Houses of Worship in Los Angeles

    Apr 28, 2023

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) condemns the recent burning of a rainbow flag at the Pasadena Buddhist Temple in Pasadena, California. This act of hate is under investigation by police and occurred two weeks after a man came to the temple to complain about that flag and ask that it and a Black Lives Matter flag be taken down from the temple’s fence. This incident is part of a larger tre...

  • 2022 Los Angeles Day of Remembrance

    Feb 19, 2022

    The annual Los Angeles Day of Remembrance commemorates the signing on February 19, 1942 of Executive Order 9066 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Executive Order 9066 authorized the military to remove and incarcerate persons of Japanese ancestry into American concentration camps during World War II. Focusing on the theme of “Power of Communities: Building Strength Through Collective Action,” this year’s vi...

  • Members Only Virtual Conversation: A Life in Pieces

    Aug 14, 2021

    All JANM Members are invited to an exclusive Members Only virtual conversation with JANM’s VP of Exhibitions and Art Director Clement Hanami, writer/filmmaker Sharon Yamato, actor Kurt Kanazawa, and Emblematic's founder and CEO Nonny de la Peña. They will discuss the virtual reality video created for A Life in Pieces: The Diary and Letters of Stanley Hayami. This program is FREE for all members, but RSVPs are requ...

  • Museum Store Sunday

    Nov 29, 2020

    FREE GIFT WITH PURCHASE OF $20 OR MORE! We are celebrating the fourth annual Museum Store Sunday on November 29 by offering a special gift with purchases over $20! Get a FREE mixed set of Allen Say’s Tree of Cranes holiday cards. Enjoy six each of his two signature illustrations (a total of 12 cards) from the Caldecott Award-winning artist’s very special holiday book. On November 29, 2020, when you purch...

  • KOKORO CRAFT BOUTIQUE SET FOR OCTOBER 1 AT JANM

    Sep 05, 2017

    Los Angeles, CA—The ninth annual Kokoro Craft Boutique, organized by volunteers at the Japanese American National Museum, will take place Sunday, October 1, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Yuujou Daiko, a taiko performance group based in South San Gabriel, will perform at 1 p.m. Admission to the boutique is free. Kokoro Craft Boutique will feature more than 50 vendors selling unique jewelry, kimono fabric fashions, Giant R...

  • SANTA ANITA ASSEMBLY CENTER REUNION SCHEDULED FOR APRIL 15 AT JANM

    Mar 02, 2017

    The Santa Anita Assembly Center Committee, in partnership with the Japanese American National Museum, will present a reunion and public remembrance of the opening of the Assembly Center 75 years ago, beginning a dark chapter in United States history when the government denied the civil rights of Japanese Americans. On Saturday, April 15, 2017, surviving incarcerees, their families, and their descendants’ families w...

  • JANM ANNOUNCES HONOREES AND THEME FOR 2017 ANNUAL GALA DINNER

    Nov 15, 2016

    The Japanese American National Museum will hold its annual Gala Dinner and Silent Auction on May 6, 2017, at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Suites, Los Angeles. The evening’s theme will be Reconnecting with the Past, Forging Our Future and the honorees will be Irene Hirano Inouye, the museum’s founding Executive Director; Bruce T. Kaji, a founding Director and the founding President of the museum; and Tom Ikeda, ...

  • Big Drum

    Big Drum: Taiko in the United States (2005) was the first major museum exhibition about taiko in America. The exhibition explored how the development of taiko in this country reflects the resilience of cultural traditions, the historical journeys of Japanese Americans, and the cultivation of new diverse communities. Big Drum: Taiko in the U.S. (intro video) A highlight reel of taiko groups across America, ...