Here I present: Japantown Task Force, “San Francisco’s Japantown”, 2005.
SUMMARY.
The book has 128 pages of black-and-white photographs. The book has six (6) chapters (after the “introduction”) listed BELOW:
CHAPTERS
#0. “INTRODUCTION.”
#1. “Birth of Nihonjin Machi.”
#2. “A Thriving Community”.
#3. “Families Uprooted by War Hysteria.”
#4. “Starting Over Again … and Again.”
#5. “Community Spirit and Celebration.”
#6. “Preservation for the Generations.”
JAPANESE-AMERICANS
The United States has one-million three-hundred-thousand (1,300,000 people) of Japanese ancestry (shown BELOW).
The top Japanese-American states are: Hawaii twenty-three (23%) percent of population (312,292 people); and, California one-point fifteen (1.15%) percent of population (428,014 people).
Here I presented: Japantown Task Force, “Images of America: San Francisco’s Japantown”, 2005.
COMMENTS.
San Francisco’s Japantown (map ABOVE) consists of the seven (7) streets: Laguna, Buchanan, Webster, Fillmore, Bush, Sutter, Post, and Geary street.
The publisher of this book Arcadia Publishing of Charleston, South Carolina released a related book in the “Images of America” series : Little Tokyo Historical Society, “Images of America: Los Angeles’s Little Tokyo”, 2010.
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