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Euphemistic language is a tool often used to sanitize grave injustices. When referring to the WWII incarceration of people of Japanese ancestry, it is important to use the correct terminology: concentration camps, not relocation centers; forced removal, not evacuation; citizens, not non aliens.
This is our community’s legacy.

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Haunted by History, Japanese Americans Fight Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
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December 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
JANM is honored to announce that it has received a second transformative gift from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott. The gift of $20 million is the largest single gift in JANM’s history.

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December 10, 2025 at 11:58 PM
We cannot allow ourselves to become accustomed to the disdainful actions of this Administration to erase the hard work that immigrants have done to pledge allegiance to the US and call this country home. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Trump administration abruptly cancels citizenship ceremonies for some immigrants
The ceremony is the final step to becoming a U.S. citizen, a process that takes years to complete.
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December 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
We stand in solidarity with our friends at the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation. Together, we make clear that our past will not be erased and that its lessons will continue to guide us towards a more just future. @heartmountain.bsky.social

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Vandalism Damages Historic Heart Mountain Buildings - Rafu Shimpo
POWELL, Wyo. — Over the past two months, the historic hospital at the Heart Mountain National Historic Landmark has experienced four separate incidents of vandalism. The federally owned buildings were...
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December 9, 2025 at 4:52 PM
JANM Congratulates @annburroughs.bsky.social on Receiving the Bar Association of the District of Columbia’s Pioneer Award!

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December 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
"For Japanese Americans who lived through World War II, the raids feels like a repeat of history. Use of force. Loss of due process. Targeting of ethnic communities." @laist.com

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Public art protest of ICE raids asks 'Am I Next?' Campaign features prominent Trump critics
The new campaign features features veteran actors Edward James Olmos, George Takei and other Angelenos who oppose the Trump Administration's deportation policy.
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November 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
JANM is deeply saddened by the passing of Dr. Arthur A. Hansen, a key figure in capturing the oral histories of Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II and a beloved member of the JANM family.

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November 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
“Am I Next?” is a public art campaign featuring images to confront attacks on civil liberties and the undermining of democratic norms that weaken civic life while raising the urgent question: If people are arrested without regard to constitutional rights, who is safe?
November 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
“Housing is harder and harder to build, but projects like Umeya show what’s possible when community and legacy come together.”

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How the LA site of an iconic Japanese cracker brand became supportive housing
The Umeya is meant to act as a bridge between Skid Row and Little Tokyo.
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November 7, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Amid the growing instability in global security, the resilience of US-Japan relations has never been more vital to the Indo-Pacific region. Join us for a free program that reexamines the future of this bilateral relationship, particularly in trade and security.

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October 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
This is about our legacy. Stand up for your principles, your community and the people who came before us.
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Facing Funding Cuts and Censorship Threats, Museums Band Together
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October 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Minidoka National Historic Site is undergoing a multiyear renovation that will preserve the Block 22 Barracks, the mess hall and root cellar buildings.

"This renovation will help visitors feel the weight of America’s heavy history."
www.boisestatepublicradio.org/news/2025-09...
Renovation project to honor lived experiences of thousands of Japanese Americans
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’...
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September 30, 2025 at 6:15 PM
"It means that another story will not be lost in time, another story that may help people not repeat the same mistakes." #ShikataGaNai

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NPR's middle school champion: A moving podcast about Japanese American incarceration
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.
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September 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Ann Burroughs, president and CEO of JANM and a Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation board member, will receive the Hon. Annice M. Wagner Pioneer Award from the Bar Association of the District of Columbia during its annual banquet Sat, Dec. 6 in Washington, D.C.

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Heart Mountain board member Ann Burroughs to receive prestigious Pioneer Award Dec. 6 - Powell Tribune
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 …
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September 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This decision will subject countless people in the Los Angeles area to unconstitutional and needless assaults and arrests based on their race, language, and work. Individuals, families, and communities will be criminalized. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
Supreme Court lifts limits on roving immigration patrols in Los Angeles area
The decision prompted liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor to say in dissent that she wouldn't "stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost."
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September 25, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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The Modern Art Notes Podcast will start its fall season with a program that spotlights the leading museum-sector institutional response to encroaching fascism and our perilous national condition.

You will not want to miss it. Tell a friend, subscribe now. (It's free!)

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September 4, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Nancy Ukai dug into the stories behind the wood carvings & nameplates that are now a part of the Allen Hendershott Eaton Collection & featured in @jamuseum.bsky.social’s traveling exhibition, "Contested Histories: Preserving and Sharing a Community Collection."
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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 …
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August 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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When governments police museums, they are not simply policing exhibitions. They are policing imagination itself. Censorship has taken hold at the Smithsonian. I refused to play along.” —Amy Sherald
Amy Sherald Speaks Out on Cancelling Her Smithsonian Show
"When governments police museums, they are not simply policing exhibitions. They are policing imagination itself," the artist wrote in a new opinion essay.
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August 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
“The Snow Country Prison Memorial is our story as well as the Native American story.” The monument recognizes the common experience shared by Japanese Americans and Indigenous communities who faced forced removal and oppression by the United States.

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New monument honors Japanese Americans incarcerated in North Dakota during World War II • North Dakota Monitor
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.
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August 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
These latest attempts to sanitize and reshape history to fit a narrow ideological narrative amount to nothing less than the erasure of history. We cannot reverse America’s journey toward a more just and equitable future. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Trump expands crusade against 'woke' from the Smithsonian to museums across the country
President Trump says 'woke' is not just a problem at the Smithsonian and that he'll root it out at museums nationwide.
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August 26, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Congratulations to the Terminal Islanders Association and Los Angeles Conservancy on the Historic-Cultural Monument designation of Terminal Island’s Furusato Tuna Street Buildings by the LA City Council!
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Terminal Island 'Furusato' Tuna Street Buildings - LA Conservancy
Preserving the historic places that make L.A. County unique
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August 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Join us for a Day of Action to defend the truth of WWIl Japanese American incarceration history. Hear from incarceration survivors, community activists, and allies to honor our history and demand that this injustice never happens again. #ProtectEveryPark

Saturday, August 23, 10am @ JANM Plaza
August 20, 2025 at 10:18 PM