But the Japanese American National Museum, a relatively small institution in downtown Los Angeles, chose a different path. Founded in 1992 at the site of a historic Buddhist temple in L.A.’s Little ...

Japanese American National Museum Volunteer Barbara Keimi stamps the Ireichō. (photo by Mike Palma, all images courtesy Japanese American National Museum, unless otherwise noted) America’s Cultural ...

Survivors from Japanese American incarceration camps during World War II are among those lining up for an event at the Japanese American National Museum in 2022. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times) The ...

An original barrack from the Heart Mountain concentration camp in the core exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community at the Japanese American National Museum (photo by Doug Mukai, all photos ...

A section of rally organized by the Japanese American National Museum, August 23, 2025. On Saturday August 23, about 500 survivors, activists and supporters gathered at the Japanese American National ...

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The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) is a Los Angeles institution. First opened in 1992—the same day the Rodney King verdict was announced—JANM is dedicated to honoring Japanese-American ...

The last month has seen federal cuts to the humanities hit Southern California museums, libraries and historical societies hard. Supporters at one institution — the Japanese American National Museum — ...

Sometimes an entire culture can be expressed through the cars it loved. Consider the Smiling Buddha sculpture that rode on the nose of Jimmy Ige’s “Ige & Sassa” Junior Fuel dragster in the 1970s. They ...

The letter to the Japanese American National Museum on Friday morning from the National Endowment for the Humanities read in part: "Due to a change in the Administration’s funding priorities, DOGE has ...