- Little Tokyo, Los Angeles - Wikipedia
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]
- About Little Tokyo — Little Tokyo Community Council
Little Tokyo is now 1 of 3 remaining historic Japantowns left in the nation, currently 140 years old, the 2nd oldest neighborhood in Los Angeles, and one of only 14 designated CA Cultural Districts
- A Guide to Little Tokyo L. A. : What to See, Eat, and Do - AFAR
Use this guide to discover things to do, see, and where to eat in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, a hub for Japanese American culture in the U S
- Little Tokyo Historic District - U. S. National Park Service
Little Tokyo Historic District is a historic Japanese commercial district in downtown Los Angeles, California Japanese immigrants settled the district in the late 19th and early 20th centuries Before World War II, Little Tokyo was the largest Japanese community in the United States
- Little Tokyo - California Cultural Districts
Little Tokyo spans traditional and contemporary artistic cultural spaces, with everything from anime shops to Little Tokyo’s First Street North, home to the nation’s longest-running Asian American open mic series, and featured on the National Registry of Historic Places and as a National Historic Landmark
- Los Angeles-Little Tokyo, California | Advisory Council on . . . - ACHP
The history of Little Tokyo (population 40,000) in Los Angeles, California, began in 1885 when a Japanese seaman, Hamanosuke Shigeta, opened a restaurant on First Street By 1900, several more businesses had been established, and the first-generation Japanese American ( issei) community was booming
- Historical Perspective – Little Tokyo Community Impact Fund
Development beginning in the 1970s involved compromises between Japanese corporate developers, community leaders, and the City of Los Angeles Stakeholders in Little Tokyo struggled with the overwhelming financial power of outside players, such as the Kajima corporation (who built the Kajima Building on San Pedro Street), that challenged the
- Little Tokyo: the Japanese Historic District of Los Angeles
Little Tokyo is nestled within 5 city blocks in Downtown Los Angeles It was founded in 1884 and has endured a long and sometimes difficult legacy of Japanese American residency and culture in L C Its community experienced great hardship during WWII when many Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps
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