We will also be offering our traditional congratulatory personal display ads.

and exclusive products that celebrate and honor Japanese American history.the museum will continue to host its Oshogatsu and Natsumatsuri festivals in Little Tokyo and the Los Angeles area.

curator of the forthcoming exhibition Eating Together: Food in Japanese America will share her research and expertise with other Japanese American organizations in pop-up events that explore the NIkkei food traditions in their communities.Oshogatsu will be on the Norman Y.The Ireichō: Sacred Book of Names has become a site of pilgrimage for families from around the world who have come to JANM to memorialize the more than 125.

AAPI Joy at the Los Angeles Public Library.and commissioner of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.

The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) announces JANM on the Go.

which will be transformed into a new lobby.which was established in the 1880s by single male workers and gradually grew to include not only restaurants and other businesses but also homes.

an Oscar nominee for The Bridge on the River Kwai.I grew up surrounded by movie memorabilia and have always admired the portrait of Sugar Torch (the stripper who was murdered in the film) hanging above our mantle.

I realize that the movie may have subconsciously influenced my first teenage crush on a Japanese boy that could have possibly been different if the film had another ending.Karen Ishizuka (right) and her husband Bob Nakamura with members of the Little Tokyo Historical Society (from left).