Inside her home in Southern California, Mary Izumi sits at her piano flipping through the yellowed pages of her old songbooks. Along with her high school yearbook, they are the last remaining ...
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Historic status is being sought for two buildings on Terminal Island — remnants of a Japanese American fishing village on Terminal Island that was torn apart by xenophobic policies of World War II.
San Pedro’s Terminal Island was once home to a bustling Japanese-American fishing village. Japanese fishermen brought tuna fishing expertise which in turn revolutionized the canning industry on the ...
LOS ANGELES — Months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, a Japanese American fishing community on San Pedro’s Terminal Island was given 48 hours to pack its belongings before it was forced into ...