Nihonmachi ("Japantowns")

Because of housing and employment discrimination, Japanese Americans tended to cluster in ethnic neighborhoods known as Nihonmachi, or "Japantowns." Living, working, studying, and worshiping in close proximity made for tight-knit communities. With the forced removal of Japanese Americans in the spring of 1942, the bustling Nihonmachis of the West Coast closed down and never fully recovered, even after the war ended.

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol.76, No. 03, (January 26, 1973) (ddr-pc-45-3)

Select article titles: "HEW Grants Nat'l JACL $65,554 to Recruit Gerontology Students" (p.1); "Ushio Assumes Nat'l JACL Helm as National Executive Director" (p.1); "Army Evacuated Descendants until Found also to Be Negro and Chinese Ancestries" (p.3); "Three Indicted in $1.2 Million Fraud Against Brokerage Firm" (p.6).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-45-3/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 77, No. 18, (November 2, 1973) (ddr-pc-45-43)

Select article titles: "Tuai Exonerated by Board of Ethics" (p.1); "Senator Inouye Calls for Nixon to Resign" (p.1); "Sac'to Asian Youths Caught in Drug Culture" (p.1); "Placer County JACLer Files Papers to Incorporate New City of 6,600 "(p.3); "San Jose Mayor Mineta Tells Youth to Become Involved in Government" (p.6).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-45-43/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 76, No. 05, (February 9, 1973) (ddr-pc-45-5)

Select article titles: "Vietnam War Dead: 61 Nikkei" (p.1); "Growing Tide of Japanese Investment Worries Hawaii" (p.1); "128 Teams, 5 from Japan, to Roll at Portland Pinfest" (p.4); "Lt. Gov. Ariyoshi Predicts Focal Point of World Affairs Shifting to Pacific" (p.4).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-45-5/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 77, No. 02, (July 13, 1973) (ddr-pc-45-27)

Select article titles: "Watergate Hearing: Inouye's Hopes Revealed" (p.1); "JACL Mail Poll Underway for $250,000 Bldg." (p.1); "Straightening out Japanese on Nikkei in U.S." (p.3); "Eight New Records Set in 21st S.F. JACL Olympics" (p.4); "WW2 Drawings of Life for Teenager in Poston Camp Basis of New Book" (p.5).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-45-27/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 76, No. 21, (June 1, 1973) (ddr-pc-45-21)

Select article titles: "Inouye: Impeachment if Hard Evidence Warrants It" (p.1); "City Housing Okays Project for Li'l Tokyo" (p.1); "Rep. Mink Wants HEW to Establish National Asian Studies Institute" (p.1); "Nisei Born in Texas Internment Camp Conferred Law Degree at San Diego" (p.2); "Effects of Parents Being Away from Home" (p.4).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-45-21/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 77, No. 16, (October 19, 1973) (ddr-pc-45-41)

Select article titles: "Ex-Envoy to Japan to Co-Chair Bldg. Fund Bid" (p.1); "40 et 8 Vets Drop All-White Policy" (p.1); "Little Tokyo Redevelopment: Hotel Okayed, Housing Assured" (p.1); "'Relocation Camp' More Comfortable As Term than 'Concentration Camp'" (p.3); "Association for Foreign Wives of Japanese Helps Members to Adjust" (p.6).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-45-41/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 79, No. 25 (December 20-27, 1974) (ddr-pc-46-50)

Holiday issue organized into sections A 1-12, B 1-12, C 1-12, and D 1-12. Selected article titles: "Sansei Returns to Tule Lake" (pp. A-1, A-3), "Fears in Tule Lake: Evacuees Remember Them" (pp. A-1, A-3-A-4), "Seattle Nihonmachi: Beat of the '20s and '30s" (pp. B-1, B-9-B-10), "Giri: Righteous Way: Inside Tanforan, Topaz" (pp. B-4, B-8-B-9), and …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-46-50/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 79, No. 20 (November 15, 1974) (ddr-pc-46-45)

Selected article titles: "JACL--National Board: New Evacuee Reparation Concept Without Massive Pay Bill Explained" (p. 1), "San Francisco Nihonmachi: Agency's 10-Year Report" (pp. 1, 3), and "Topaz Revisited: Desert Sands Reclaiming History" (pp. 1, 3).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-46-45/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 78, No. 2 (January 18, 1974) (ddr-pc-46-2)

Selected article titles: "Sansei Sought for National Capital Class" (p. 1), "Little Tokyo Redevelopment: Focus on Senior Citizen Housing" (p. 1), and "1970 U.S. Census: Who Is the 'Asian American'?" (pp. 1-2).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-46-2/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 79, No. 23 (December 6, 1974) (ddr-pc-46-48)

Selected article titles: "Attorneys Back Reparation Bid" (pp. 1-2), "Cleveland JACL: Am I Minority Always?" (p. 2), "San Francisco Nihonmachi: Destruction--Dispersal" (p. 2), and "Judge Invalidates UC Minority Admissions" (p. 3).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-46-48/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 78, No. 10 (March 15, 1974) (ddr-pc-46-10)

Selected article titles: "Little Tokyo Redevelopment: $4 Million Bunka Kaikan Planned" (p. 1), "Minnihon Arts Center: The Twins Cities' Newest" (p. 3), and "Chicago JACL: Kitano: Of 'A Middidle-Man Minority'" (p. 4).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-46-10/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 81, No. 11 (September 12, 1975) (ddr-pc-47-36)

Selected article titles: "EDC-MDC Airs 3 Issues: Vietnam Refugees, Budget, '74 Mandates" (p. 1), "EDC-MDC Workshops Stress 'Action'" (pp. 1-2), "Little Tokyo Redevelopment: Ground Broken for Higashi Hongwanji" (p. 1), and "Chiaroscuro: How Can We Not Get Involved in Community Affairs" (p. 2).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-47-36/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 80, No. 2 (January 17, 1975) (ddr-pc-47-2)

Selected article titles: "Dean Interested in Evacuee Reparations" (p. 1), "Little Tokyo Redevelopment: Northsiders Tiff with City Hall" (p. 1), and "The Rice Act of 1974: Manna in the U.S." (p. 2).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-47-2/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 81, No. 21 (November 21, 1975) (ddr-pc-47-46)

Selected article titles: "Wendy Bares Own Background" (pp. 1-2), "Sen. Inouye at Lone Mountain: Vigilance Key to Democracy, Equality" (p. 1), "Denver Testimonial to Salute Only Governor Who Welcomed Evacuees" (p. 1), and "From the Frying Pan: The Japanese Way" (p. 2).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-47-46/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 81, No. 8 (August 22, 1975) (ddr-pc-47-33)

Selected article titles: "EXECOM Orders Cutbacks" (pp. 1-2), "CANE Unable to Secure NC-WNDC Support to Act on Nat'l Mandate" (pp. 1, 3), and "Ye Editor's Desk: Little Tokyo--My Hometown" (p. 2).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-47-33/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 85, No. 5 (July 29, 1977) (ddr-pc-49-29)

Selected article titles: "Evacuation Was a 'Bum Deal': Buchanan" (p.1-2), 'Carter Appoints Four Nikkei to High-Level Posts" (p.1, 4), "Japan to Raise 1,000,000,000 Yen for Li'l Tokyo Cultural Community Center" (p.3), "The Bakke Case" (p.5).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-49-29/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 89, No. 2068 (November 9, 1979) (ddr-pc-51-44)

Selected article titles: "JACL to Develop TV Series on Japanese Americans" (p. 1), "Return Urged for Little Tokyo 'Northside'" (p. 1), "Asian American Music on 'Arista' Label: 'Hiroshima' Sounds Going Nationwide" (p. 3), and "A Background Report: Japan-U.S. Friendship Act" (p. 4).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-51-44/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 94, No. 3 (January 22, 1982) (ddr-pc-54-3)

Selected article titles: "Task Unit Investigates Anti-Minority Violence" (p. 1), "Reagan Alters Stand; Biased School Tax Urged" (p. 2), "Supreme Court Ruling Excludes Aliens from Public Employment" (p. 2), and "Lil' Tokyo Expansion Plan Halted" (p. 3).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-54-3/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 110, No. 13 (April 6, 1990) (ddr-pc-62-13)

Select article titles: "U.S. Census Hears Asian Concerns"(p.1);"JACL Calls for Repeal of Discriminatory Employer Sanctions in Immigration Law"(p.1); "San Jose Japantown Seizes Unique Opportunity for Revitalization of Businesses & Community Life"(p.2); "Common Memorial to Restore Pioneer Issei History on Vancouver Island Planned for 1991"(p.3).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-62-13/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 122, No. 4 (February 16-29, 1996) (ddr-pc-68-4)

Selected article titles: "JACL Convention: Host City San Jose Features Japantown Rich with History" (p. 1), "In Indiana, Immigration, Internment Exhibit Gets Good Reviews" (p. 4), "'Brick-Laying' Dedicates Japanese American Museum's Phase II Pavilion Site in Los Angeles" (p. 5), and "Books: Sugihara's Heroism in Saving Jews Chronicled by His Widow" (p. 7).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-68-4/

doc Satoshi Kuwamoto interview (ddr-csujad-6-17)

Oral history interview with Satoshi Kuwamoto. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: SCRC_KUWAMOTO_SATOSHI

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-6-17/

doc Nori Masuda interview (ddr-csujad-6-22)

Oral history interview with Nori Masuda. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: SCRC_MASUDA_NORI

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-6-22/

doc Fresno West Side (ddr-csujad-8-13)

Oral history interview with Mr. Nori Masuda, Mrs. Masako Inada, Mrs. Fumi Nakajima, and Mrs. Setsu Hirasuna. Information on the oral history project is found in: csuf_stp_0012A; Glossary in: csuf_stp_0014. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: FCPL Fresno West Side

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-8-13/

img Two children at a Nihonmachi, or Japantown, market (ddr-densho-117-2)

This market was located on Fifth and Main Street. (Front to back): Kaz and Yosh.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-117-2/

img Four children in Nihonmachi, or Japantown (ddr-densho-117-1)

This photo was taken next to the Osaka Hotel, which was located on 308 Fifth Avenue South. (L to R): Mits, Shiz and Kaz Murakami and Emio (friend).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-117-1/