The Umeya is meant to act as a bridge between Skid Row and Little Tokyo.

From 1942 to 1945, 13,000 Japanese Americans were imprisoned by the U.S. government at the Minidoka concentration camp outside of Jerome, Idaho. Today, a renovation project seeks to preserve the site’...

For the first time, NPR's Student Podcast Challenge has a returning champion: a California fifth grader who explored a dark chapter in U.S. history during World War II.

Ann Burroughs, president and CEO of the Japanese American National Museum and a Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation board member, will receive the Hon. Annice M. Wagner Pioneer Award from the Bar …

Throughout the U.S., the U.K., and Europe, museums are scrambling to adapt to a new reality, with far less public funding.

The decision prompted liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor to say in dissent that she wouldn't "stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost."

Wood carvings and wooden nameplates from Contested Histories: Preserving and Sharing a Community Collection at the Japanese American National Museum. Photo by Richard Watanabe JANM’s traveling exhibition, Contested Histories: Preserving and Sharing a Community Collection, tells the stories of selected artifacts in the Allen H. Eaton Collection through engagement with researchers, families, and the Japanese American community. On …

"When governments police museums, they are not simply policing exhibitions. They are policing imagination itself," the artist wrote in a new opinion essay.

United Tribes Technical College on Sept. 5 will hold a dedication ceremony for a new monument honoring the memory of Japanese Americans who were imprisoned there during World War II.

President Trump says 'woke' is not just a problem at the Smithsonian and that he'll root it out at museums nationwide.

Preserving the historic places that make L.A. County unique

“The use of national security rhetoric to justify mass incarceration today echoes the same logic that led to their forced removal and incarceration,” one advocate said.

“We are outraged and deeply distressed,” said the Japanese American National Museum, noting the “stark” parallels to the arrests of Japanese Americans on the site in 1942.

Federal agents conducted the operation outside the venue where Gov. Gavin Newsom held a news conference on redistricting in California.

The same federal facility that detained Japanese Americans in 1942 is now the staging ground for immigration raids across Los Angeles. One San Pedro resident documents what he's seen—and why history f...

In his new book publishing next week, Cruising J-Town, scholar and author Oliver Wang uses cars and trucks as the lens to tell community histories of Japanese Americans in the 20th century--a history ...