Japanese American Museum in L.A. Faces Another Budget Crisis

   Las Vegas, April 10 (Jiji Press)--The Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles is facing another funding problem, after it resolved Wednesday a similar crisis caused by subsidy cuts pushed through by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.
   JANM said Thursday that it became unable to pay 500,000 dollars for air-conditioning system renovation work needed to keep its collections in a good state, after Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency suspended grants to the National Endowment for the Humanities, which was to fund the work.
   Because the NEH funds were indispensable to prevent the deterioration of more than 160,000 collections, including items that tell how the U.S. government inhumanely treated Japanese-Americans during World War II, the museum will solicit donations to raise that sum of money as it did to overcome the preceding DOGE-caused funding crisis that hit its 190,000-dollar teacher training program.
   The program is now seen feasible this year, with about half of travel expenses for 72 participating teachers having already been secured since JANM issued an emergency statement calling for donations on Wednesday.
   Over the last two years, more than 100 teachers have taken part in the program, benefiting 21,000 children and students.

(2025/04/11-19:21)

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