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A Vision Takes Root: The Legacy of Judy Nishimoto Ota and the San Pedro Firm Building
I experienced an early defining moment when I was a young twenty something reporter at The Raf…
Naomi Hirahara • March 24, 2023
Treasure Hunters: Takachizu on Los Angeles Street seeks to record community memories and mementos.
Walking into the Vida Group Building on South Los Angeles Street, I couldn’t help but sense t…
Gwen Muranaka • Nov. 10, 2016
The Alan Hotel
For journalists, there are stories, perhaps only a handful, that never leave you. That’s the …
Naomi Hirahara • March 15, 2016
Alan Hotel
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Chapter Six—Noguchi Verses
Read Chapter Five >> As I make my way to the Koban Visitors Center, First Street in Litt…
Naomi Hirahara • Jan. 4, 2015
Stimulating an Appreciation of America’s Diverse History and Cultures Through Preservation
The most fitting way I can think of to begin this review of Mary Adams Urashima’s Historic Wi…
Arthur A. Hansen +1 • Dec. 12, 2014
Master Artisans of San Jose: The Nishiura Brothers
If you’ve ever visited San Jose’s Japantown, odds are you’ve stepped in a buildin…
Naomi Hirahara • April 28, 2014
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Livestock Building at Hastings Park in Vancouver, B.C.
“Over 3,000 Japanese Canadian women and children, demonstrating resilience under deplorable c…
Norm Masaji Ibuki • Feb. 8, 2013
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「消えた」総領事館
現在、羅府の日本総領事館は、小東京から数マイル離れたバンカー・ヒル地区のカリフォルニア・プラザという高層ビルのなかにありますが、かつては小東京のサン・ペドロ街と1番街の交差点にある、鹿島ビルの14階…
Takamichi "Taka" Go • Oct. 16, 2013