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  • JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM STATEMENT IN RESPONSE TO VIOLENCE AND RACISM IN CHARLOTTESVILLE

    Aug 14, 2017

    Los Angeles, CA—The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) denounces the violence that recently took place in Charlottesville, Virginia, sparked by white supremacists who promote hate based on racism and bigotry. We mourn the three people who lost their lives and send hopes for speedy recoveries to those injured as they stood up for the real values of the United States and its diversity. “As an institution, we s...

  • EPFC Filmcicle Presents Race and Space in Los Angeles VI

    Aug 10, 2017

    FREE The latest installment of Echo Park Film Center’s Race and Space in Los Angeles screening series focuses on the city’s Asian Pacific Islander American (APIA) community. The evening will begin with a USC student-made production, The Challenge (1957, Claude Bache), which examines the unlawful incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II from an assimilationist perspective put forth by the Japanes...

  • "Common Ground" Exhibition Tour

    Aug 05, 2017

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

  • "Moving Day"

    Aug 01, 2017 - Aug 11, 2017

    March 23 – August 11, 2017 Daily from sunset to midnight In conjunction with the exhibition Instructions to All Persons: Reflections on Executive Order 9066, JANM presents Moving Day, an outdoor public art installation. The work consists of a series of projections of the Civilian Exclusion Orders that were publicly posted during World War II to inform persons of Japanese ancestry of their impending forced removal...

  • JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM RECEIVES TWO GRANTS FOR 2017 FROM NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

    Jul 31, 2017

    Los Angeles, CA The Japanese American National Museum has been awarded over $427,000 in National Park Service Japanese American Confinement Sites grants for 2017. The funds will support two projects—digitization of some of JANM’s moving image holdings and the development of a travelling exhibition featuring works from the museum’s Allen Hendershott Eaton Collection of art and artifacts made by Japanese Americans i...

  • Film Screening and Q&A—"Never Give Up! Minoru Yasui and the Fight for Justice (Part 1)"

    Jul 29, 2017

    If you missed the program, you can watch the post-screening Q&A online on JANM’s YouTube channel. Join us for the LA premiere of this new documentary by Holly Yasui tracing the early life of her father, the noted civil rights activist Minoru Yasui. Born in 1916 to Japanese immigrant parents, Yasui was raised in the farming community of Hood River, Oregon, and became that state’s first Japan...

  • Members Only Meet-and-Greet with Holly Yasui

    Jul 29, 2017

    Members are invited to an exclusive pre-event reception with filmmaker Holly Yasui prior to the public screening and Q&A with the filmmaker about her film, Never Give Up! Minoru Yasui and the Fight for Justice. Space is limited. RSVP by July 24 to memberevents@janm.org or 213.830.5646.

  • Little Tokyo Walking Tour

    Jul 29, 2017

    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.

  • Outdoor Concert and Movie Night—"Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country"

    Jul 27, 2017

    FREE Join us for a set by Tim Russ Crew, a pop-rock band led by Star Trek actor Tim Russ, followed by a screening of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), the last of the Star Trek films to feature the entire original cast from the television series, including George Takei as Hikaru Sulu, now commander of the USS Excelsior. Welcome remarks by George Takei (subject to availability). Supported by Los Ang...

  • NATIONAL MUSEUM PRODUCES DVDS OF CLASSIC MADE-FOR-TV FILM 'FAREWELL TO MANZANAR'

    Nov 10, 2011

    The Japanese American National Museum announced that it has obtained the licensing rights through the NBCUniversal Television Consumer Products Group to the classic made-for-TV 1976 movie, "Farewell to Manzanar," and has produced DVD copies for sale this fall for the first time ever. Based on the autobiographical book, Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James Houston, the film is a rare Hollywood...