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Japanese Village Plaza Nijiya Market in Little Tokyo's Japanese Village Plaza. The Japanese Village Plaza is located roughly in the center of Little Tokyo on the east side of San Pedro Street. There are several restaurants in the plaza, plus a number of shops geared towards tourists. First Street and Second Street border Japanese Village Plaza ...
A memorial to the Japanese Fishing Village on Terminal Island serves as a reminder of the Japanese American community, its forced evacuation in 1942, and the once-thriving fishing village at ...
Japanese Village and Deer Park. Coordinates: 33°52′13″N 118°00′35″W. The Japanese Village and Deer Park is a defunct amusement park formerly located in Buena Park, California .
Room plans were either a four-room square, or a larger six-room structure, plus their earthen-floor space. The Shinto shrine housing the village deity is located on high ground near the village centre and is nowadays surrounded by Japanese cedar trees. A Buddhist temple of the Jodo Shinshu sect forms the religious centre of the community. [1]: 51
Unit 731 (Japanese: 731部隊, Hepburn: Nana-san-ichi Butai), [note 1] short for Manchu Detachment 731 and also known as the Kamo Detachment [3]: 198 and the Ishii Unit, [5] was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that engaged in lethal human experimentation and biological weapons manufacturing during the Second Sino-Japanese War ...
A village (村, mura) [a] is a local administrative unit in Japan. [1] It is a local public body along with prefecture (県, ken, or other equivalents), city (市, shi), and town (町, chō, sometimes machi). Geographically, a village's extent is contained within a prefecture.
September 15, 1976 [ 4] Manzanar is the site of one of ten American concentration camps, where more than 120,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II from March 1942 to November 1945. Although it had over 10,000 inmates at its peak, it was one of the smaller internment camps. It is located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada ...
Wintersburg Village is an area in Huntington Beach, California, United States, that represents over a century of Japanese immigration to the United States.The property, consisting of six structures on a 4.5-acre (1.8 ha) parcel, was noted as eligible for the National Register of Historic Places in the City of Huntington Beach General Plan in 2014. [1]