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Taiwanese and Vietnamese immigrants of Chinese descent opened up the first toy stores in the early 1980s, and at first these merchants sold toys only during holiday periods. Among them was the Woo family, and the most successful entrepreneur of that clan was Charles Woo, born in Hong Kong and settling in Los Angeles as a teenager in 1968.
Mitsuwa Chicago hosts a Kinokuniya, a Japanese book shop that sells manga, anime figurines, video game artbooks, Gunpla, stationery, novels, and other imported Japanese media and merchandise. This location was once also home to the JTB travel agency, JBC Video (a Japanese video rental store), Galaxy Wireless (a cell phone store), and Utsuwa no ...
Don Quijote Co., Ltd. (株式会社ドン・キホーテ, kabushiki gaisha Don Kihōte), often referred to by its shortened name Donki (ドンキ), is a Japanese discount store chain.
It is bounded on the west by Los Angeles Street, on the east by Alameda Street, on the south by 3rd Street, and on the north by First Street, but also includes a substantial portion of the block north of First and west of Alameda, location of the Japanese American National Museum, the Go For Broke Monument, and a row of historic shops which ...
The Japanese Garden is called Shofu-en—the Garden of Wind and Pines, [10] and was designed by Koichi Kawana [11] in collaboration with Kai Kwahara. [12] Descanso Gardens: La Cañada Flintridge: California: Includes a Japanese teahouse and a Japanese-style garden designed by Whitney Smith and built in 1966. Dubuque Arboretum and Botanical ...
The Japan Center is a shopping center in the Japantown neighborhood of San Francisco, California. It opened in March 1968 and was originally called the Japanese Cultural and Trade Center. [1] It is bounded by Geary (on the south), Post (on the north), Fillmore (on the west), and Laguna (on the east). The mall itself is composed of three mall ...
Nijiya Market (ニジヤマーケット Nijiya Māketto) is a Japanese supermarket chain headquartered in Torrance, California, [2] with store locations in California and Hawaii. The store's rainbow logo is intended to represent a bridge between Japan and the United States.
The villa that forms the district's centerpiece was constructed from 1911 to 1914 by artisans and craftsmen from Japan for the German-American Adolph Leopold Bernheimer (1866-1944) and Eugene Elija Bernheimer (1865-1924) [noted as brothers to Charles L. Bernheimer] to house their collection of Japanese art and valuable items. Mainly acquired in ...