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A family arrives at the Tanforan grandstand. Dorothea Lange, 1942.. The people detained at Tanforan had previously lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, in the counties of San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, and San Mateo; a small group was taken from San Joaquin County. [2]
The San Francisco Japanese School (SFJS) is a Japanese Ministry of Education (MEXT)-designated weekend Japanese school serving the area. The school system, headquartered in San Francisco, rents classrooms in four schools serving a total of over 1,600 students as of 2016; two of the schools are in San Francisco and two are in the South Bay.
Roberto Bertotti (born 1967), Italian watchmaker, fixing most of the watches, clocks, chronometers, Pendulum clocks, etc. Workshop in Rovereto, Italy. Masahiro Kikuno (born 1983), , Japanese watchmaker, created the first wristwatch with a Japanese clock complication. Andrzej Trojanowski (born 1979), independent watchmaker based in Warsaw, Poland.
The Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) was founded in 1981 by several Los Angeles–based Asian American journalists: Bill Sing, Nancy Yoshihara, and David Kishiyama (from The Los Angeles Times), Frank Kwan and Tritia Toyota (from KNBC-TV News), and Dwight Chuman (from Rafu Shimpo, the Japanese-American newspaper).
In 1899 Kyutaro Abiko (我孫子 久太郎, Abiko Kyūtarō), a newspaper seller, established the Nichi Bei Shimbun (日米新聞 Nichi Bei Shinbun).The Nichi Bei Foundation said that Kyutaro Abiko was "known to historians as the most influential Japanese immigrant to America," and that the newspaper was "the most influential Japanese American newspaper in the country prior to World War II."
San Francisco Evening Bulletin; San Francisco Examiner; San Francisco Herald; San Francisco Independent; San Francisco Progress (1918–1988) [7] [8] SF Weekly; Shinsekai asahi shinbun (New World Sun, 1932–1941) [1] Shin sekai (New World, 1912–1932) [1] Sinhan Minbo; South San Francisco enterprise (1907–1938) [1] Star Presidian (1952 ...
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — In the Bay Area, the place to be for fireworks on New Year’s Eve is along San Francisco’s waterfront. If you’re looking for the best places to watch fireworks on New ...
AsianWeek was one of the newspapers owned and operated by the Fang family of San Francisco, with others including the San Francisco Independent and the San Francisco Examiner. [7] It was founded by John Fang in 1979 and helmed by long-time AsianWeek President James Fang from 1993-2009. AsianWeek headquarters were located in San Francisco's ...