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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 ...
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 only three official Japantowns in the ...
Mikawaya was founded as a small, traditional Japanese wagashi confectionery store in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles in 1910. [3] In 1942, The owners of the family-owned business, husband and wife Koroku and Haru Hashimoto, were forced to close their business with the outbreak of World War II. [3]
“This neighborhood is not just for Japanese Americans but for Asian Americans and for Los Angeles,” said Kristin Fukushima, managing director of the Little Tokyo Community Council, one of the ...
The Chicago area store is at 100 E. Algonquin Road in Arlington Heights, Illinois —one of a number of Japanese businesses in Arlington Heights—and opened in 1991. The store is open 365 days a year [9] from 9 am to 8 pm. Mitsuwa is the largest [10] Japanese marketplace in the Midwestern US. The Chicago store is one of three that are east of ...
House Foods is the world's largest manufacturer of Japanese curry, [citation needed] and is well known for its Japanese curry brands, Vermont Curry and Java Curry. It is also a major manufacturer of spices such as wasabi, shichimi, yuzukoshō, and black pepper. In addition, House Foods manufactures mixes and roux for various yōshoku including ...
(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.
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 ...