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  2. Nisei Week - Wikipedia

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    Nisei Week (二世週祭, Nisei-shū Matsuri) is an annual festival celebrating Japanese American (JA) culture and history in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. Nisei means 2nd generation in Japanese, describing the first American born Japanese, a group which the seven-day festival was originally meant to attract. Though named for the Nisei generation ...

  3. Little Tokyo, Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. History of the Japanese in Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    Hayden, Dolores. "Landscapes of loss and remembrance: the case of little Tokyo in Los Angeles." Studies In The Social And Cultural History Of Modern Warfare 5 (1999): 142-160. Modell, John. The economics and politics of racial accommodation: The Japanese of Los Angeles, 1900-1942 (1977). Moritomo, Toyotomi.

  5. The fight to save L.A.'s Little Tokyo before it's too late

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  6. File:Selling newspapers in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, 1941.jpg

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    English: A newspaperman sells Rafu Shinbun's December 7, 1941 papers on the streets of Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. The papers report the news of the Japanese attacks on Pearl Habor in Hawaii. The papers report the news of the Japanese attacks on Pearl Habor in Hawaii.

  7. Central Avenue (Los Angeles) - Wikipedia

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    Near its northern end, Central Avenue passes through Little Tokyo, Los Angeles' oldest Japanese neighborhood and now a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places. On Central Avenue just north of First Street is the former Hompa Hongwangi Buddhist Temple. It was declared Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No.313 in ...

  8. Suehiro's eviction sparks an outcry in Little Tokyo, with ...

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    December 13, 2023 at 3:00 AM. ... A classic car passes protesters in front of Suehiro Cafe on 1st Street in Little Tokyo. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times) When the eviction letter came, Suzuki ...

  9. Black Dahlia: the unsolved murder that transfixed Los Angeles

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    The case sparked a media frenzy when news broke and Short was dubbed “the Black Dahlia” by the press — partly inspired by the popular 1946 film noir The Blue Dahlia, and because the 22-year ...