Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
August 22, 1986. Designated NHLD. June 12, 1995 [ 3] Little Tokyo ( Japanese: リトル・トーキョー ), also known as Little Tokyo Historic District, is an ethnically Japanese American district in downtown Los Angeles and the heart of the largest Japanese-American population in North America. [ 4] It is the largest and most populous of ...
Downtown Los Angeles: Art Deco, 1922. [5] 953: Foreman & Clark Building: May 20, 2009: 701 S. Hill St. Downtown Los Angeles: Art Deco-Gothic style, 1929, flagship of Foreman & Clark department stores. [6] 957: Great Republic Life Building
Marukai Corporation U.S.A. is an American offshoot chain of retail markets that imports and sells Japanese goods in American cities started by the Osaka, Japan -based Marukai Corporation (Japan) [ ja]. Unlike other Japanese supermarkets, which may carry non-Japanese products based on local diversity, Marukai has Hawaiian products as a core ...
In Little Tokyo, the past and the future have long been at odds. Less than a month after the iconic Suehiro Café closed its 1st Street location — evicted after nearly 40 years — community ...
The Go for Broke Monument ( Japanese: 日系人部隊記念碑, [ 1][ 2] Nikkeijinbutai Kinenhi) in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, California, commemorates Japanese Americans who served in the United States Army during World War II. It was created by Los Angeles architect Roger M. Yanagita whose winning design was selected over 138 other ...
The Japanese American National Museum (全米日系人博物館, Zenbei Nikkeijin Hakubutsukan) is located in Los Angeles, California, and dedicated to preserving the history and culture of Japanese Americans. Founded in 1992, it is located in the Little Tokyo area near downtown. The museum is an affiliate within the Smithsonian Affiliations ...
Enlistment and casualty records were of little assistance and frequently inaccurate, occasionally listing Japanese Americans as "Indonesian" or "Eskimo". This made it impossible to find every service member of Japanese ancestry in the Vietnam War, and the committee made the difficult decision to exclude those individuals not readily verifiable ...
(Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) The signs at Sunday's rally protesting the eviction of Little Tokyo's Suehiro Cafe offered a full menu of the different ways a community can be angry.