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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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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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2025/09/21 - 10/02/ “Third Act” documenting life of filmmaker & Professor of UCLA Robert Nakamura at the Laemmle Monica Film Center from Sep. 26-Oct. 02


The Japanese American National Museum is proud to present Third Act at the Laemmle Monica Film Center from Friday, Sep…

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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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2025/08/23/ National Day of Action to Defend History News Conference and Rally Comes to Little Tokyo

Survivors of World War II incarceration camps along with community activists and allies will join to defend the accura…

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Nikkei - Japanese American
2025/03/18/ Activists invoke WWII internment Japanese Americans, others battle Trump’s use of Alien Enemies Act, Torrance Daily Breeze reports

By Allyson Vergara
avergara@scng.com
Southern California News Group
Torrance Daily Breeze (March 23, 2025)
“Never a…

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2025/03/18/ Press Conference Set for March 18 Against President Trump’s Policy of using the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as a basis for rounding up immigrants to detain and deport

This is to invite you to a Nikkei Progressives-initiated press conference on Tuesday, March 18, 2025 at 10 am at the Japa…

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Little Tokyo Estate Sale for supporting Eaton fire victims and defending immigrant right to be held on Sunday, Feb. 23, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. at Democracy Center of Japanese American National Museum


Nikkei Progressives will be holding its first ever "Little Tokyo Estate Sale" of treasured family heirlooms on Sunday…

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2025/01/05/ Japanese American National Museum Celebrates the Oshogatsu Family Festival

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will host the Oshogatsu Family Festival from 11 a.m.–5 p…

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2025/01/05 Closing / Japanese American National Museum exhibiting “Contested Histories: Preserving and Sharing a Community Collection”


During World War II, Japanese Americans incarcerated in America's concentration camps demonstrated their resilien…

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