Japanese American National Museum
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Sharing the Japanese American experience. Look for programs near you at janm.org/OnTheGo
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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.
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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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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.

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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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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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If you are in the LA area, be sure to check out Cruising J-Town: Behind the Wheel of the Nikkei Community, a free exhibit from @jamuseum.bsky.social (off-site in Pasadena). And engage w/ the docents! Their stories and insights really enhanced my cultural awareness. #diversity #asianamerican
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Their work to oppose demolition plans and preserve the Tuna Street buildings will give future generations that opportunity to remember and commemorate the significant contributions and history of Terminal Island's prewar Japanese American community.
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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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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
Black and white photograph of a young Japanese woman holding a baby in her arms. They both have tags hanging from their coats as they await a bus ride that will take them to a concentration camp.
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The use of national security rhetoric to justify mass incarceration today echoes the same logic that led to the incarceration of Japanese Americans. It is inconceivable that the US is once again building concentration camps, denying the lessons learned 80 years ago.

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Japanese American groups blast use of Fort Bliss, former internment camp site, as ICE detention center
“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.
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History does not yield to censorship. 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.
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Museums must be places of truth, not propaganda—spaces where the next generation can confront the complexity of our nation’s injustices, mistakes, and darkest chapters; where empathy, social responsibility, and the courage to defend democracy are nurtured.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/a...
White House Announces Comprehensive Review of Smithsonian Exhibitions
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“We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus — making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps.” — Ann Burroughs, CEO of the Japanese American National Museum
LA Museum Condemns US Border Patrol Presence on Its Grounds
“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.
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Earlier today, U.S. Border Patrol agents conducted a raid in Little Tokyo near a press event held by @cagovernornewsom.bsky.social.

Reporting by @shoton35mm.bsky.social @eltragon.bsky.social @marinamasako.bsky.social
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The parallels are stark: entire communities were forcibly removed from the West Coast in 1942 and today our immigrant brothers and sisters face the terror of ICE and CBP raids across the country. It was a miscarriage of justice then, and it is a miscarriage of justice now.
Black and white photograph showing an Aerial perspective of crowd boarding buses in front of Nishi Hongwanji Buddhist Temple, Los Angeles, California, 1942.
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We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.
Photo of armed customs and border patrol agents and cars on the plaza in front of the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo.
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I saw two versions of America in LA’s Little Tokyo yesterday. In the Democracy Center at the Japanese Am. Nat’l Museum, I watched CA leaders announce plans to fight authoritarianism. Outside were heavily armed ICE agents—a Trump regime stunt designed to terrorize immigrant Angelenos & stifle dissent
Federal agents conduct operation in Little Tokyo as Newsom announced redistricting plans
Federal agents conducted the operation outside the venue where Gov. Gavin Newsom held a news conference on redistricting in California.
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📷: Photo by US Army, courtesy of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum (HB118-B)
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On August 6, 1945 at 8:15 a.m., the US dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of #Hiroshima, the first time in human history that any country used the unparalleled power and devastation of atomic bombs. The US remains the only country to use nuclear weapons during a time of war.
Black and white photograph of the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall is known today as the Atomic Bomb Dome, circa October-November, 1945.
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What I learned patrolling for ICE in Terminal Island.

The same federal facility that detained Japanese Americans in 1942 is now the staging ground for immigration raids across LA.

One San Pedro resident documents what he’s seen and why history feels like it’s repeating itself.
What I learned patrolling for ICE in Terminal Island
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...
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