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  • Little Tokyo Walking Tour

    Apr 28, 2018

    Relive history and learn about present-day Little Tokyo with JANM docents. $12 members, $15 non-members. Museum admission included. Comfortable walking shoes recommended. Weather permitting. Limited to 20 participants.

  • 2018 Gala Dinner and Silent Auction

    Apr 21, 2018

    Service to Democracy Honoring: Senator Mazie K. Hirono Aiko Herzig Yoshinaga Join us for the 2018 Gala Dinner and Silent Auction at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Suites, Los Angeles on Saturday, April 21. Democracy thrives only when individuals take it upon themselves to fight for it. Our 2018 Gala Dinner will celebrate individuals who have gone above and beyond what most average citizens do to en...

  • 2018 Gala Dinner and Silent Auction

    Honoring Senator Mazie K. Hirono Aiko Herzig Yoshinaga

  • "Common Ground" Exhibition Tour

    Apr 07, 2018

    Tour the ongoing exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community with JANM’s knowledgeable docents. Included with museum admission.

  • Opening Day: "hapa.me – 15 years of the hapa project"

    Apr 07, 2018

    In this new exhibition, artist Kip Fulbeck continues his project, begun in 2001, of photographing persons who identify as “Hapa”—of mixed Asian/Pacific Islander descent—as a means of promoting awareness and positive acceptance of multiracial identity. hapa.me pairs the photographs and statements from the groundbreaking 2006 exhibition, kip fulbeck: part asian, 100% hapa, with contemporary portraits of the sa...

  • Upper Level Members and VIP Reception: "hapa.me"

    Apr 06, 2018

    Members at the Sustaining level and above and VIPs are invited to preview hapa.me before it opens to the public. Program with light reception to follow. Invitations were mailed in March.

  • hapa.me - 15 years of the hapa project

    Apr 07, 2018 - Oct 28, 2018

    The word “hapa” is the Hawaiian transliteration of the English word “half.” Much of its current usage derives from the phrase hapa haole, meaning “half white.” The phrase was originally coined by native Hawaiians to describe the mixed offspring resulting from encounters between islanders and White settlers. In subsequent years, hapa (or Hapa) has come into popular usage away from the islands, most frequently embraced...

  • Film Screening and Discussion—"Proof of Loyalty: Kazuo Yamane and the Nisei Soldiers of Hawai‘i"

    Mar 31, 2018

    With a population that included a significant percentage of persons of Japanese ancestry, the state of Hawaii did not experience the mass incarcerations that Japanese Americans on the West Coast did following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Only a small percentage of the islands’ Japanese Americans were sent to prison camps, and large numbers of the state’s Nisei volunteered for and served with distinction in the US A...

  • Discover Your Japanese American Roots

    Mar 31, 2018

    This comprehensive workshop led by genealogy buff Chester Hashizume will teach you to identify your ancestral Japanese hometown, uncover the meanings behind family crests and surnames, learn about conducting research in Japan, and much more. $44 members, $55 non-members. Materials and museum admission included. Limited to 16 participants. In the Koichi & Toyo Nerio Education Center

  • JANM’S TARGET FREE FAMILY SATURDAY CELEBRATES POP CULTURE

    Oct 31, 2012

    The Japanese American National Museum continues the popular ongoing series, Target Free Family Saturdays on Saturday, November 10, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. JANM will celebrate Pop Culture in conjunction with its current exhibition, Giant Robot Biennale 3, and include a watercolor workshop with GRB3 artist, Rob Sato. The event is free and open to the public. Generously sponsored by Target, these special Saturdays ...