Nikkei - Japanese American National Museum

Nikkei - Japanese American
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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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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Nikkei - Japanese American
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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Nikkei - Japanese American
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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2021 / Japanese American National Museum to present Natsumatsuri Virtual Family Festival featuring performances, crafts, and activities for all ages, Aug. 14 at 11AM, PDT

Japanese American National Museum
Natsumatsuri Virtual Family Festival
Saturday, August 15, 11 am, PDT
New videos an…

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2060 Los Angeles - Japanese American Wartime Experience
2018 / Japanese American National Museum to hold 2018 Gala Dinner, April 21

Japanese American National Museum
2018 Gala Dinner and Silent Auction
Service to Democracy
Honoring
Senator Mazie K.…

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2060 Los Angeles - Japanese American Wartime Experience
2018 / Japanese American National Museum to present 2018 Day of Remembrance, Feb. 17

Japanese American National Museum
2018 Day of Remembrance

The Civil Liberties Act of 1988: The Victory and the Unfinis…

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