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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Los Angeles's Little Tokyo

Los Angeles's Little Tokyo

Little Tokyo Historical Society

Hardcover

Asian American StudiesRegional: West

Publisher Price: $31.99

ISBN10: 1531653936
ISBN13: 9781531653934
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
Published: Nov 15 2010
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English
In 1884, a Japanese sailor named Hamanosuke Shigeta made his way to the eastern section of downtown Los Angeles and opened Little Tokyo's first business, an American-style cafe. By the early 20th century, this neighborhood on the banks of the Los Angeles River had developed into a vibrant community serving the burgeoning Japanese American population of Southern California. When Japanese Americans were forcibly removed to internment camps in 1942 following the attack on Pearl Harbor and the United States' entrance into World War II, Little Tokyo was rechristened Bronzeville as a newly established African American enclave popular for its jazz clubs and churches. Despite the War Relocation Authority's opposition to re-establishing Little Tokyo following the war, Japanese Americans gradually restored the strong ties evident today in 21st-century Little Tokyo--a multicultural, multigenerational community that is the largest Nihonmachi (Japantown) in the United States.

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