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  • JANM Announces the 2025 Toshizo Watanabe Democracy Fellowship Recipients

    Apr 10, 2025

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) announces the recipients of the 2025 Toshizo Watanabe Democracy Fellowship. This fellowship is a yearlong professional development program designed for emerging leaders from Japan across sectors. It advances global democracy and strengthens ties between the United States and Japan by promoting democratic values. It also fosters understanding and cooperati...

  • East West Players Presents Theater for Youth: "Patsy"

    Apr 06, 2025

    “Patsy” is an original play by Alison Minami about the first Asian American Congresswoman, Patsy Mink.While Maui High School senior and star athlete, Kailani, waits to find out if she’s been accepted into her dream school, Patsy Mink, the first Asian American congresswoman and former valedictorian of Maui High school, appears before her. As Patsy walks Kailani through the many trials and tribulations she faced throug...

  • Defining Courage at UC Berkeley

    Apr 04, 2025

    Friday, April 4 • 8 p.m.University of California, BerkeleyBerkeley, CA Defining Courage is a journey into the legacy of the Nisei Soldier—Japanese Americans who served in the segregated units of the 100th Infantry Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, Military Intelligence Service, and 522nd Field Artillery Battalion. Produced and narrated by ABC7-Los Angeles news anchor and filmmaker David Ono, Defining Courage h...

  • 人文科学、博物館・美術館、図書館の解体、 国の歴史の消去を非難します

    Apr 03, 2025

    注記：JANMの展示施設は改修のため休館しています。JANMのそのほかの施設や館外の会場でプログラムは継続して参ります。詳細はjanm.org/OnTheGoをご覧ください。 全米日系人博物館（JANM）は、全米人文科学基金（NEH）、博物館・図書館サービス協会（IMLS）など、多様性と民主主義の柱となる組織を計画的に解体し、有色人種、女性、LGBTQIA+、その他の社会的に周縁化されてきたコミュニティーの貢献を抹消しようとする動きが続いていることに深い懸念を抱いています。政権は、NEHを標的にし、職員や助成金プログラムの削減、すでに授与された助成金の取り消しを企図しています。 政府効率化省は、70～80パーセントもの職員削減と、前政権下で交付された助成金のうち、全額が拠出されていないもの全ての中止を勧告しました。行政命令「連邦官僚主義の削減の継続」で挙げられた解体対象の7つの独立連邦機関のひとつにIMLSが入っています。IML...

  • JANM Decries Ongoing Efforts to Dismantle the Humanities, Museums, and Libraries, and Erase the Nation’s History

    Apr 03, 2025

    Editors please note: JANM’s Pavilion is closed for renovation; programs will continue on the JANM campus and at other locations at janm.org/OnTheGo. LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) is deeply concerned by the ongoing efforts to systematically dismantle pillars of diversity and democracy like the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IM...

  • Poetry at the Gate of Memory

    Mar 27, 2025

    Join poets Brynn Saito and traci kato-kiriyama for a reading celebrating the forthcoming April 2025 release of The Gate of Memory: Poems by Descendants of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration. Edited by Saito and Brandon Shimoda, this poetry anthology explores the afterlife of the historical yet enduring injustice of World War II–era prisons and camps. Featured readers include David Mura, Heather Nagami, Mia Ayumi Malhotra, ...

  • JANM Book Club: “The Bridges Yuri Built” with Kai Naima Williams

    Mar 22, 2025

    Celebrate Women’s History Month and join author and great-granddaughter of Yuri Kochiyama, Kai Naima Williams for a reading of The Bridges Yuri Built: How Yuri Kochiyama Marched Across Movements followed by a conversation about Yuri Kochiyama’s life and legacy with Williams and journalist Lisa Ling.The Bridges Yuri Built introduces one of the twentieth century’s most notable freedom fighters to the next generation of...

  • JANM Calls for Restoration of Contributions of People of Color on US Department of Defense Websites

    Mar 19, 2025

    Editors please note: JANM’s Pavilion is closed for renovation; programs will continue on the JANM campus and at other locations at janm.org/OnTheGo. LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) is gravely concerned and disheartened by the ongoing efforts to erase the contributions of people of color to US military history from the US Department of Defense websites. This includes erasing the contribu...

  • JANM Mourns the Passing of Senator Alan K. Simpson

    Mar 17, 2025

    Editors please note: JANM’s Pavilion is closed for renovation; programs will continue on the JANM campus and at other locations at janm.org/OnTheGo. LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) mourns the passing of Senator Alan K. Simpson, who helped steer the passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 through Congress and into law alongside his colleague and lifelong friend, the late Secretary Nor...

  • 集団国外退去を強制するための 「敵性外国人法」適用を非難します

    Mar 15, 2025

    注記：JANMの展示施設は改修のため休館しています。JANMのそのほかの施設や館外の会場でプログラムは継続していきます。詳細はjanm.org/OnTheGoをご覧ください。 全米日系人博物館（JANM）は、本日発表されたベネズエラ系移民の集団国外退去を強制するために、1798年の「敵性外国人法」を適用する大統領令を非難します。この法律は、米国が戦争状態にある国々や米国を侵略した国々からの人々の国外退去を認めるものです。1941年には、ルーズベルト大統領がこの法律を適用し、適正な法の手続きをへることなく、司法省の収容所に日本、ドイツ、イタリアの市民を逮捕・拘留しました。1942年には、大統領は戦時権限の範囲を拡大して「大統領令9066号」を発令し、12万5000人以上の日系アメリカ人の強制収容につながりました。当館はワシントンD.C.の連邦裁判所にアメリカ自由人権協会（ACLA）とデモクラシー・フォーワードの弁護士が起こした訴訟...