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  • ON THE PASSING OF ROSE MATSUI OCHI

    Dec 22, 2020

    Los Angeles, CA–The Japanese American National Museum was saddened to hear of the recent passing of Takayo “Rose” Matsui Ochi, a long-time supporter of JANM whose life and career broke down barriers and who influenced both the Japanese American redress campaign and the designation of Manzanar as a historic site. Born in East Los Angeles in 1938, young Takayo and her family were unlawfully incarcerated in a go...

  • Tea & Letter Writing: Letters of Connection

    Oct 14, 2020

    $10 suggested donation Gather with us in the comfort of your own home to share tea and conversation! We will be writing letters of solidarity to Little Tokyo seniors or special elders in our lives and spending some time in personal reflection. Prompts will be provided by special guests and traci kato-kiriyama, former Little Tokyo +LAB Artist-in-Residence at JANM. Make yourself a cup of tea, get comfortable, and jo...

  • Tea & Letter Writing: Letters of Solace

    Sep 09, 2020

    PAY-WHAT-YOU-WISH $10 suggested donation At the start of safer at home orders in Los Angeles, we gathered virtually for the first time to write letters to seniors who were isolating physically in their homes in Little Tokyo. Now, six months later, we will be writing again to our community elders to see how they are now and how we can continue to provide comfort and connection. Gather with us in the comfort of ...

  • Daughters of Hibakusha Tell Hiroshima Stories

    Aug 15, 2020

    PAY-WHAT-YOU-WISH Two award-winning Japanese American authors, Kathleen Burkinshaw and Naomi Hirahara, join together for the first time to discuss how they felt compelled to tell the stories of their Hiroshima hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) parents through novels. Burkinshaw’s middle-grade book, The Last Cherry Blossom, has become a resource for teachers and students under the United Nations Office for D...

  • ZÓCALO—Is Propaganda Keeping Americans from Thinking for Themselves?

    Jun 05, 2019

    A Zócalo/UCLA Downtown Event at JANM’s National Center for the Preservation of Democracy Moderated by Carla Hall, Editorial Board Member, Los Angeles Times In 1931, philosopher John Dewey warned that "democracy will be a farce unless individuals are trained to think for themselves, to judge independently, to be critical, to be able to detect subtle propaganda and the motives which inspire i...

  • OUTDOOR CONCERT AND "STAR TREK VI" MOVIE SCREENING SET FOR JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM

    Jun 29, 2017

    Los Angeles, CA Actor and activist George Takei will welcome attendees to an outdoor screening of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, in which he stars as Captain Hikaru Sulu, commander of the USS Excelsior, at the Japanese American National Museum on Thursday, July 27, 2017. The movie will be preceded by a short concert performance by Tim Russ Crew, a pop-rock band fronted by fellow Star Trek actor Tim Russ. ...

  • TOYOTA PLEDGES SUPPORT TO JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM FOR FIVE YEARS

    Jun 09, 2017

    Los Angeles, CA Toyota Motor North America has pledged $500,000 and five new Lexus vehicles to the Japanese American National Museum over the next five years. The vehicles will serve as prizes for opportunity drawings that the museum holds annually as part of its Gala Dinner fundraising activities. The cash and opportunity drawing ticket sales revenue will provide general operating support for all of JANM’s activi...

  • JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM DEVELOPS LESSON PLANS FOR "INSTRUCTIONS TO ALL PERSONS" EXHIBITION

    Apr 24, 2017

    Los Angeles, CA The Japanese American National Museum has developed a series of lesson plans for teachers to complement its Instructions to All Persons: Reflections on Executive Order 9066 exhibition and enhance student learning of the 75th anniversary of President Franklin Roosevelt’s signing of the order that led to the tragic and unlawful incarceration of 120,000 individuals of Japanese ancestry during World Wa...

  • JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM TRUSTEES SELECT ANN BURROUGHS AS PRESIDENT AND CEO

    Mar 24, 2017

    Los Angeles, CA The Board of Trustees of the Japanese American National Museum today announced that Ann Burroughs has been named President and CEO of the museum. Burroughs had been serving in those roles in an interim capacity since June 2016. “Ann has been a skillful leader of the Japanese American National Museum since her first day on the job. She quickly earned the respect and admiration of the museum’s boa...

  • MUSEUM, IA&A TO PREMIERE 'FOLDING PAPER' EXHIBITION MARCH 10

    Jan 17, 2012

    The Japanese American National Museum is pleased to announce it will premiere the new exhibition Folding Paper: The Infinite Possibilities of Origami, an engaging, thought-provoking, and interdisciplinary look at the modern advances of origami through contemporary artworks, inventions, and videos. Folding Paper, organized in partnership with International Arts & Artists (IA&A), is on view at the National Museum begin...