Collective Memories of the Store

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The Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight calls JANM’s exhibition, Glenn Kaino: Aki’s Market, “a captivating theater of dreams.” The virtual reality experience depicts an important place in Kaino’s family history—a place that the artist, Glenn Akira Kaino, has never experienced for himself. A place of collective memory, dreams, …

Swing Dance and Music in Camp

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What was it like to grow up behind barbed wire? JANM’s exhibition, Don’t Fence Me In: Coming of Age in America’s Concentration Camps, explores the experiences of Japanese American youth confronting the injustice of being imprisoned in World War II concentration camps while embarking on the universal journey of adolescence. …

Tad Nakamura’s Art and Activism

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Meet William Fujioka, the New Chairman of the JANM Board of Trustees

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William “Bill” Fujioka is the new chairman of the JANM Board of Trustees. Born in Boyle Heights, he moved to Montebello, California, at a young age. He still recalls the racism he encountered during the 1950s and ’60s. Many men in his neighborhood fought in the Pacific Theater during World …

Thanks a Million, Norm!

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Norman Y. Mineta, Board of Trustees Chair at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM), was a fount of inspiration for the younger generation.

JANM Volunteer Reflects on Southern California Roots and World War II Experiences

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Barbara Reiko Mikami Keimi has been volunteering at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) with her husband, Hal, before the Museum opened to the public in JANM’s Historic Building in 1992.