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  • Defining Courage at the Neuhaus Theatre at the Alley, Houston, TX

    May 20, 2024

    ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY! Monday, May 20, 2024 • 6:30 p.m. Neuhaus Theatre at the Alley Houston, TX Defining Courage is a gripping and emotional journey into the legacy of Nisei veterans, a segregated combat team of Japanese American soldiers that fought during World War II and that remains the most highly decorated unit in US Army history. Drawing upon decades of filmmaking and investigative journa...

  • Cruising J-Town Community Scanning Event

    May 18, 2024

    Bring your photographs and documents related to Japanese American car culture for scanning as part of the research behind JANM’s summer/fall 2025 exhibition, Cruising J-Town: Nikkei Car Culture in Southern California. When registering, please select your preferred time slot. We are especially looking for items related to: Drag racing culture of the 1950s–’70s The Nisei Week Cruise in the 1970s and ’80s I...

  • Benkyodo: The Last Manju Shop in J-Town at the Doclands Film Festival in San Rafael, CA

    May 03, 2024

    Benkyodo: The Last Manju Shop in J-Town will be screening at the Doclands Film Festival in San Rafael, CA on Friday, May 3, 2024. The screening is part of the Doclands Education Docshorts. ABOUT THE FILM Ricky and Bobby Okamura, the current owners of Benkyodo mochi shop, make a difficult decision to close their family business. The Japanese pastry shop, a landmark for Japanese Americans and Asian Americans in...

  • 9066 to 9/11—The Past, Present, and Future of Anti-Asian Bias in America

    Aug 12, 2020

    FREE On March 21, 1942, Congress codified Executive Order 9066, issued by President Franklin Roosevelt, which resulted in the forced removal and confinement of people of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast in American concentration camps. 78 years later, the COVID-19 pandemic unleashed a surge in discrimination, bias, and violence against Asian Americans, many of whom were falsely blamed for spreading the virus. ...

  • JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM STATEMENT ON TREE OF LIFE TRAGEDY

    Oct 30, 2018

    Los Angeles, CA—“The leadership, staff, and volunteers of the Japanese American National Museum are horrified by the brutal mass shooting at the Tree of Life Congregation Synagogue in Pittsburgh on Saturday,” said JANM President and CEO Ann Burroughs. “We share in the grief of the families who are dealing with the tragic loss of their loved ones, and with the synagogue community and people of Pittsburgh as they mourn...

  • "Nisei Stories of Wartime Japan"

    Jun 20, 2015

    After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, thousands of American citizens of Japanese ancestry who were in Japan at the time were barred from returning to the United States until after the war ended. Through ten interviews that encompass a range of experiences and attitudes, this documentary film takes an inside look at the experiences of the stranded American citizens. Discussion to follow with mother-and-son fil...

  • Exhibit of Japanese Flower Arrangements

    Mar 01, 2003 - Mar 02, 2003

    Celebrating its 35th anniversary, the practitioners of the Ohara School of Ikebana reach beyond the traditional styles of the art form of flower arranging with innovative and creative results. More than 80 arrangements by teachers and students of the school will be on display. At the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, Doizaki Gallery Gallery Hours: 11 a.m.–4 p.m.

  • Twelfth Annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film & Video Festival

    May 15, 1997 - May 22, 1997

    Director’s Guild of America Theater, Laemmle’s Sunset Five Theater, Los Angeles First established in 1983 by Visual Communications, the nation’s oldest Asian Pacific American media arts center, the Los Angeles Asian Pacific & Video Festival is Southern California’s premier showcase of cinematic works by and about Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.

  • TO APPLY—2024 NEH Landmarks Little Tokyo Workshop

    Instructions for how to apply for “Little Tokyo: How History Shapes a Community Across Generations," an NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture workshop for teachers.

  • TO APPLY—2025 NEH Landmarks Little Tokyo Workshop

    Instructions for how to apply for “Little Tokyo: How History Shapes a Community Across Generations," an NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture workshop for teachers.