Japantown: A Historic Community Once Lost, But Still Alive
May 15, 2020 · Sacramento once housed the fourth largest and most vibrant Japantown community among the West Coast, rivaling those of San Francisco, San Jose, and Los Angeles. But now, reduced in size and number, only the memory of its former glory remains.
Sacramento's Japantown: A brief history of the community
May 15, 2023 · SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California was home to over 30 thriving Japantowns, but after World War II when Japanese Americans were placed in internment camps, Japantowns began to disappear.
Kokoro: The Story of Sacramento's Lost Japantown
In December 1944, the U.S. government announced the closing of the incarceration centers for those of Japanese ancestry. After over two and a half years, the residents of Sacramento’s...
Japanese Americans remember Sacramento's lost Japantown
May 6, 2024 · SACRAMENTO --The shameful government order set into motion 82 years ago this weekend sent tens of thousands of Japanese Americans to concentration camps for the duration of WWII-- and led to the...
Sacramento - Japantown Atlas
Oct 11, 2020 · Japantown Atlas - Northern California - Sacramento . Home • Resources and Links. Detail Map: Sacramento's Fourth St. between K and P Streets. In 1940, Sacramento's Japantown centered on Fourth and M Streets, a few blocks east of the Tower Bridge and the Sacramento River.
Sacramento once had one of the nation’s most vibrant Japantowns
Oct 2, 2023 · Released after nearly three years of incarceration, the former residents got back to work, reinventing Japantown, now within a more ethnically diverse community of Portuguese, Mexican, Chinese, Korean, and African American residents.
New mural unveiled to commemorate lost Sacramento Japantown …
May 31, 2024 · SACRAMENTO — A lost piece of Sacramento's history is now being revived in the form of a colorful new mural. Stan Umeda grew up going to Sacramento's Japantown. In its heyday, it was the...
Sacramento's Lost Japantown - Grinnell College
In the 1950’s, the demolition of a neighborhood known as Sacramento’s Japantown began. The demolition of this neighborhood, or Nihonmachi, was due to its presence within Project Area 2-A of the City of Sacramento’s Capitol Mall redevelopment project.
The Land That Time Forgot - Sactown Magazine
By 1940, Sacramento’s Japantown, centered around 4th and O streets, was a bustling community replete with kabuki theaters, churches, bathhouses, restaurants and drugstores—the fourth-largest such enclave on the West Coast.
Sacramento - californiajapantowns.org
Sacramento's Japantown was destroyed by WWII evacuation and urban redevelopment projects of the 1950s and ‘60s. In 1940, Sacramento Japantown held over 3,400 residents who operated 79 hotels, 44 community organizations, 31 restaurants, 26 markets, 15 barber shops, 14 laundries, and over 255 other businesses.
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