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  • 2021 Oshogatsu Virtual Family Festival—Year of the Ox

    Jan 03, 2021 - Jan 08, 2021

    FREE! Join JANM for a week of virtual, kid-friendly activities to celebrate Oshogatsu (New Year’s Day)! From interactive, offline festivities for all ages to multi-lingual story times and play performances, welcome the Year of the Ox with JANM! Celebrate with us on social media Use our special Oshogatsu Instagram filters (search “JANM Oshogatsu”) and tag us with your results or use the hashtag #JANMOsho...

  • ON THE PASSING OF ROSE MATSUI OCHI

    Dec 22, 2020

    Los Angeles, CA–The Japanese American National Museum was saddened to hear of the recent passing of Takayo “Rose” Matsui Ochi, a long-time supporter of JANM whose life and career broke down barriers and who influenced both the Japanese American redress campaign and the designation of Manzanar as a historic site. Born in East Los Angeles in 1938, young Takayo and her family were unlawfully incarcerated in a go...

  • JANM Digital Film Festival—Crossroads: Boyle Heights Q&A

    Dec 18, 2020

    A neighborhood is made up of people and places. It is defined through the experiences of those who consider it home. And it holds their hopes for the future and their memories of the past. In 2002, the exhibition, Boyle Heights: The Power of Place, celebrated these experiences and memories of Boyle Heights, a vibrant, multiethnic, and multicultural Los Angeles neighborhood. The short film, Crossroads: Boyle Heights (...

  • Discover Nikkei’s Nima Voices: Episode 2—Erik Matsunaga

    Dec 15, 2020

    Discover Nikkei is JANM’s international community-based web project sharing stories and the experiences of Nikkei around the world. “Nima” are members of the Discover Nikkei online community. Hailing from all around the world, they each bring unique experiences and perspectives to the site’s rich archive of stories. “Nima Voices” is an interview series where we uplift our Nima through brief, but enlightening,...

  • MOURNING THE LOSS OF JANM VOLUNTEER RICHARD “BABE” KARASAWA

    Dec 16, 2020

    Los Angeles, CA–I am personally saddened to share the loss of Richard “Babe” Karasawa, a JANM volunteer for over 30 years, who passed away on December 8, 2020. Babe and his wife Mary were fixtures at JANM, becoming volunteers in 1989 before the opening of the Historic Building in 1992. As with so many of our core volunteers, the Karasawas embraced the challenge of sharing the Japanese American experience with...

  • A Taste of Home: Recipes for Celebration

    Dec 13, 2020

    FREE For many holidays, both distinctly “American” and traditionally Japanese, Japanese American families share meals specifically prepared for the occasion. From oshogatsu (New Years Day) to Christmas, these flavors are closely tied to memories, festivities, and cultural practices. Even while incarcerated during WWII, Japanese Americans held on to their traditions and celebrations, highlighting their persever...

  • JANM TO PRESENT “MEMORIES OF FIVE NISEI”

    Sep 09, 2016

    The Japanese American National Museum will present "Memories of Five Nisei," a free event featuring five second-generation Japanese Americans, on September 24, 2016, at 2 p.m. The speakers were among those of Japanese descent imprisoned by the United States Government during World War II and will discuss their experiences during this ordeal of mass injustice. The event is part of the museum’s Tateuchi Public Progr...

  • KOKORO CRAFT BOUTIQUE SET FOR OCTOBER 2 AT JANM

    Sep 07, 2016

    The eighth annual Kokoro Craft Boutique, organized by volunteers at the Japanese American National Museum, will take place Sunday, October 2, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Yuujou Daiko, a taiko performance group based in South San Gabriel, will perform at 1 p.m. Kokoro Craft Boutique will feature more than 50 vendors selling unique jewelry, kimono fabric fashions, Giant Robot merchandise, handbags, ceramics, origami ...

  • JANM TO PRESENT SPECIAL FREE SCREENING OF STEVE AOKI’S NETFLIX ORIGINAL FILM "I’LL SLEEP WHEN I’M DEAD"

    Aug 31, 2016

    I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead, a new documentary on the life of influential DJ, music producer, and record label founder Steve Aoki, will be screened at the Japanese American National Museum on September 27, at 7:30 p.m. Free and open to the public, the screening will be followed by a discussion with Aoki led by Mike Shinoda of Grammy Award-winning rock band Linkin Park. I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead was shot over the c...

  • JANM EXHIBITION TO SHOWCASE PHOTOGRAPHS FROM WWII FARM LABOR CAMPS

    Aug 22, 2016

    The Japanese American National Museum will present Uprooted: Japanese American Farm Labor Camps During World War II, a traveling exhibition featuring the work of Farm Security Administration photographer Russell Lee in Oregon and Idaho, from September 27, 2016, to January 8, 2017. During World War II, the United States government forcibly removed over 120,000 Japanese Americans from the Pacific Coast. These in...