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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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Peggie Nishimura Bain Interview Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-170-10)
vh Peggie Nishimura Bain Interview Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-170-10)
Working in a restaurant in Seattle's Nihonmachi, or Japantown
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-170-10/
Alan Kumamoto Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-464-10)
vh Alan Kumamoto Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-464-10)
Memories of Los Angeles' Little Tokyo just after the war
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-464-10/
Tadashi Kuniyuki Interview Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-227-10)
vh Tadashi Kuniyuki Interview Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-227-10)
Working in the Nippon Kan Theatre, seeing Japanese American "gangsters"
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-227-10/
Tadashi Kuniyuki Interview Segment 28 (ddr-densho-1000-227-28)
vh Tadashi Kuniyuki Interview Segment 28 (ddr-densho-1000-227-28)
Description of prewar Seattle's Japantown maps
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-227-28/
Carolyn Takeshita Interview Segment 12 (ddr-densho-1000-217-12)
vh Carolyn Takeshita Interview Segment 12 (ddr-densho-1000-217-12)
Description of Denver's Japanese American community
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-217-12/
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