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Japanese-Americans of Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo community work hard to retain its identity

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Japanese-Americans of Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo community work hard to retain its identity

“We need to define our future,” says Erich Nakano, executive director of the Little Tokyo Service Centre, which played a major role in getting First Street North approved. A community hoarding in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. Photo: TNS Outsiders, Nakano says, have played an outsize role in determining the direction of the neighbourhood, a centre … Read more

A Portrait of Japanese America, in the Shadow of the Camps

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A Portrait of Japanese America, in the Shadow of the Camps

In the nineteen-twenties, United States officials began preparing for the possibility of war in the Pacific, and the consequences this would have for the territory of Hawaii. About a third of Hawaii’s population were people of Japanese descent, a community that had first arrived in the late eighteen-hundreds to work in the sugarcane and pineapple … Read more