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Map of Little Tokyo Japantown, Los Angeles; Little Tokyo Japantown Guide; Visit Little Tokyo at the Wayback Machine (archived 2006-11-08) Japanese American Cultural and Community Center; Japanese American Network – Little Tokyo at archive.today (archived 2013-04-15) Strategies for the Preservation of Little Tokyo as an Historic Community
Little Tokyo in Downtown Los Angeles is the main historical Japantown of Los Angeles. Sawtelle housed a Japantown that became known as "Little Osaka". Jack Fujimoto, author of Sawtelle: West Los Angeles's Japantown, wrote that the name was given because of the "many colorful eateries and shops."
Japantown (日本人街) is a common name for Japanese communities in cities and towns outside Japan.Alternatively, a Japantown may be called J-town, Little Tokyo or Nihonmachi (日本町), the first two being common names for Japantown, San Francisco, Japantown, San Jose and Little Tokyo, Los Angeles.
Sawtelle Boulevard’s northern end is north of Dowlen Drive within the Los Angeles Veterans Administration complex (which it enters at Ohio Avenue), and its southern end is at Overland Avenue, a few blocks east of Sepulveda Boulevard. Sawtelle Boulevard is a major thoroughfare for the Sawtelle community and West Los Angeles neighborhood.
Little Tokyo, Los Angeles (23 P) Pages in category "Japantowns in the United States" ... Japantown, Salt Lake City; Japantown, San Francisco; Japantown, San Jose; P.
In 1896, the Pacific Land Company purchased a 225-acre (0.91 km 2) tract, just south of the veterans' home, and hired S. H. Taft to develop a new town.When the Pacific Land Company attempted to secure a post office for the new town, the postal authorities objected to the name "Barrett," after veterans' home manager A. W. Barrett, on account of its similarity to the city of Bassett.
United Way of Greater Los Angeles, which was raising capital for affordable housing, filled the gap with a $4.5-million second, or mezzanine, loan.
The Go for Broke Monument (Japanese: 日系人部隊記念碑, [1] [2] Nikkeijinbutai Kinenhi) in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, California, commemorates Japanese Americans who served in the United States Army during World War II. It was created by Los Angeles architect Roger M. Yanagita whose winning design was selected over 138 other submissions ...