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Little Tokyo | Japanese American National Museum Brings Oshogatsu Family Festival to Japanese American Cultural & Community Center on Jan. 11, 11AM-4:30PM

The 2026 Oshogatsu Family Festival will include free crafts, performances, and cultural activities for all ages to ri…

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2025/12/14 | Closing | JANM on the Go presents “Cruising J-Town: Exploring Japanese American Car Culture in Los Angeles” Exhibition at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena from July 31 through Dec. 14

Cruising J-Town Finale and Curator Tour | Sunday, December 14, 2025 from 12 p.m.–5 p.m. PST at Peter and Merle Mullin Gal…

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Japanese American National Museum Receives $20 Million Gift from Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott

The largest gift in JANM’s history, it follows Scott’s  previous transformative gift of $10 million in 2021…

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Nikkei - JANM
2025/10/05/ “Misadventure of a Nisei Week Queen” film featuring 1954 Queen June Aochi Berk to be screened at Japanese American National Museum Oct. 5 at 2PM


Japanese American National Museum (JANM) presents JANM’s film screening of The Misadventures of a Nisei Week Queen on…

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Little Tokyo - Local
2025/09/20/ Nikkei Children’s Book Festival at Japanese American National Museum

Dokushyo no Aki means “fall is for reading,” expressing the sentiment that the cozy and short days of autumn are the bes…

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Manzanar Committee
2025/ Irei Project to Present Ireichō Book of Names at 56th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage


Los Angeles (February 18, 2025) – The Irei Project, a groundbreaking initiative dedicated to memorializing people of…

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Community
Annual Los Angeles Day of Remembrance held at Nishi Hongwanji Temple on Saturday, Feb. 15

The Los Angeles Day of Remembrance was held at Los Angeles Hompa Hongwanji Buddhist Temple, 815 East First Street, Los A…

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2023 / Japanese American National Museum “Sutra and Bible: Faith and the Japanese American World War II Incarceration” Feb. 26, 2022 – Feb. 19, 2023


LOS ANGELES – From the confines of concentration camps and locales under martial law to the battlegrounds of Europe, Ja…

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Little Tokyo - Local
2022 / Japanese American National Museum / Mine Okubo’s Masterpiece: The Art of Citizen 13660, Aug. 28, 2021 - March 27, 2022

August 28, 2021 – March 27, 2021
LOS ANGELES – On the 75th anniversary of its publication, the Japanese American Nationa…

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Japanese Culture
2022 / Virtual program “What is Nikkei Food?” seeking answers from Brazil, Australia, Japan, and Los Angeles, Feb 26 at 3PM, Pacific Time


LOS ANGELES - Discover Nikkei, a web-based project of The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) focused on promoti…

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Japanese Culture
2022 / Japanese American National Museum / Virtual 2022 Oshogatsu Family Festival – Year of the Tiger, Sunday, January 2


Welcome the Year of the Tiger with virtual crafts, cultural activities, and performances.
Please note: This event is n…

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2021 / Japanese American National Museum to host Conversation about new book “Tule Lake Stockade Diary” by Tatsuo Ryusei Inouye, Dec 11, 2:00PM, PT in person and virtually


Conversation on Tule Lake Stockade Diary by Tatsuo Ryusei Inouye
https://www.janm.org/events/2021-12-11/conver

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