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How a Japanese-American Owned Real Estate Firm Broke up Racist Covenants in Southern California - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Since 1910, Los Angeles has boasted the largest population of Japanese Americans in…

Patricia Wakida • May 24, 2022

California Crenshaw Kashu Realty Kazuo K Inouye Los Angeles neighborhoods property real estate Seinan (Los Angeles, Calif.) Southwest Los Angeles United States

How a Japanese-American Owned Real Estate Firm Broke up Racist Covenants in Southern California - Part 1

Back in the mid-1940s, a Mrs. Lopez called up Kashu Realty in L.A.’s Crenshaw district and asked to…

Patricia Wakida • May 23, 2022

California Crenshaw Kashu Realty Kazuo K Inouye Los Angeles neighborhoods property real estate Seinan (Los Angeles, Calif.) Southwest Los Angeles United States

Tak’s: From hashbrowns to hardware, it all stems from memories and traditions of the Holiday Bowl

This article is a follow-up to the writer’s original “Living in South Los Angeles — Today as a Japa…

Athena Mari Asklipiadis • Jan. 13, 2020

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A tour of the Japanese community in Los Angeles with a Japanese social studies teacher

Japanese people don't know about Japanese people I have been in America for 28 years. During that t…

Keiko Fukuda • Nov. 4, 2019

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Nikkei Chronicles #2—Nikkei+: Stories of Mixed Language, Traditions, Generations & Race

A Hapa Girl In Vietnam

I’m currently carrying out a Fulbright English Teaching Fellowship in Northern Vietnam. When I sit …

Tani Mitsui Brown • Oct. 24, 2013

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The Ultimate Good: Grace Pastries

“Weddings are the most superstitious of holidays. And the cake? Well it’s like any marriage, right?…

Patricia Wakida • May 21, 2013

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The town where Nikkei lived

Part 1 (Part 2) Southwest Los Angeles (Crenshaw District)

Read the first part >> Why on earth did all the Japanese people in the Southwest area disappear to …

Keiko Fukuda • March 26, 2013

California Crenshaw Japantowns Los Angeles neighborhoods Seinan (Los Angeles, Calif.) Southwest Los Angeles United States

The town where Nikkei lived

Part 1 (first half): Southwest Los Angeles (Crenshaw District)

One day, a friend showed me a photo he had taken on his digital camera. A torii gate stood with the…

Keiko Fukuda • March 5, 2013

California Crenshaw Japantowns Los Angeles neighborhoods Seinan (Los Angeles, Calif.) Southwest Los Angeles United States

From Crenshaw to Deerhorn: An Interview with Nina Revoyr

My first introduction to Nina Revoyr’s writing was through her 2003 novel, Southland, a story of lo…

Mia Nakaji Monnier • Feb. 16, 2012

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A Yonsei’s Reflections...

on returning to my JA bowling roots

Today, basketball and golf are the sports of choice in Japanese American communities, at least it s…

Vicky K. Murakami-Tsuda • Oct. 17, 2007

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