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  • Little Tokyo Drift: Nisei Week Car Culture

    Aug 21, 2021

    EVENT UPDATE Due to limited in person capacity, we are now only offering virtual attendance. Please email publicprograms@janm.org to be added to the wait list for in person tickets. FREE Little Tokyo Drift brings together veterans of the Nisei Week cruises and organizers of the Showoff to discuss the history and legacy of nikkei car culture in Los Angeles in a conversation moderated by Oliv...

  • THE JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM TO OPEN NEW EXHIBITION AUGUST 28 “MINÉ OKUBO’S MASTERPIECE: THE ART OF CITIZEN 13660” THAT INCLUDES ARTWORK FOR THE 1946 BOOK SHOWN FOR THE FIRST TIME

    Aug 20, 2021

    LOS ANGELES – On the 75th anniversary of its publication, the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will open a new exhibition, “Miné Okubo’s Masterpiece: The Art of Citizen 13660.” This groundbreaking memoir of nearly 200 illustrations, is an insider’s view of the World War II incarceration of Japanese and Japanese Americans – the first book-length account of America’s concentration camps by a former incarc...

  • 2021 Natsumatsuri Virtual Family Festival

    Aug 14, 2021

    Celebrate the summer with us in this virtual festival featuring Japanese and Japanese American crafts and activities for all ages.

  • Members Only Virtual Conversation: A Life in Pieces

    Aug 14, 2021

    All JANM Members are invited to an exclusive Members Only virtual conversation with JANM’s VP of Exhibitions and Art Director Clement Hanami, writer/filmmaker Sharon Yamato, actor Kurt Kanazawa, and Emblematic's founder and CEO Nonny de la Peña. They will discuss the virtual reality video created for A Life in Pieces: The Diary and Letters of Stanley Hayami. This program is FREE for all members, but RSVPs are requ...

  • Tea & Letter Writing: reflections

    Aug 11, 2021

    Gather with us in the comfort of your own home to share tea and conversation and celebrate the second anniversary of our Tea & Letter Writing series! Join traci kato-kiriyama, former Little Tokyo +LAB Artist-in-Residence at JANM, and Mya Worrell, zine maker and writer, for reflective letter writing and zine creation. Make yourself a cup of tea, get comfortable, and join us online for this interactive bi-monthly progr...

  • Author Discussion—Clark and Division by Naomi Hirahara

    Aug 07, 2021

    Join Naomi Hirahara, Edgar Award-winning author of Clark and Division, for a virtual conversation and Q&A on blending history and fiction in this powerful new mystery. $ 10 General / FREE for JANM Members About the Book: Chicago, 1944: Twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar, where they have been detained by the US government since the aftermath of Pearl Ha...

  • Members Only Meet-and-Greet with Naomi Hirahara

    Aug 07, 2021

    All members are invited to this exclusive virtual conversation and Q&A with Naomi Hirahara, author of Clark and Division. Set in 1944 Chicago, Clark and Division is the story of a young woman searching for the truth about her revered older sister’s death, bringing to focus the struggles of one Japanese American family released from mass incarceration at Manzanar during World War II. Naomi Hirahara is an Edgar Awar...

  • JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM MOURNS THE PASSING OF MARGARET ODA

    May 03, 2018

    Los Angeles—The Japanese American National Museum mourns the passing of its Chairman Emeritus Margaret Y. Oda. Dr. Oda served on the JANM Board of Trustees from 1993 to 2005. She was Vice Chair from 1996 to 2003, and Chair from 2004 to 2005. She was named a Chairman Emeritus in 2006. “Margaret Oda’s passing is a sorrowful occasion and the Japanese American National Museum’s leadership, staff, and volunteers send t...

  • JANM’S MAY FREE FAMILY DAY EXPLORES IDENTITY AND HERITAGE

    Apr 24, 2018

    Los Angeles, CA—The Japanese American National Museum will be a fun and thoughtful place to explore themes of identity and personal heritage during its JANM Free Family Day on May 12, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission to the museum, its exhibitions, and its “Identity, My-dentity’ Family Day activities—including crafts, storytelling, a poetry workshop, and an improv performance—will be free. All ages are welcome. “I...

  • Sincerely Miné Okubo

    Short biographical film on the artistic span and career of Miné Okubo, a Japanese American artist who is best known for her graphic memoir Citizen 13660 (1946), which chronicled her World War II incarceration. This film was produced in conjunction with the 2021 exhibition, Miné Okubo’s Masterpiece: The Art of Citizen 13660. Directed by Yuka Murakami 16 minutes This film is currently being presented at film...