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This short film showcases the Redevelopment Project of Sacramento's West End in 1959 which ended with the destruction of the Japantown. Using footage from a KCRA program by Stan Atkinson the documentary was created by Chris Lango and edited by…

This documentary was created to highlight the Urban Redevelopment Projects of the late 1950s and early 1960s that devastated the West End of Sacramento that included Japantown. Created by Chris Lango in collaboration with The Center for Sacramento…

From the Left side: The Nippon Theater, Horimoto Candies, Yumikura Chop Sueym Wakimoto bakery, Kaihara restaurant and Matsumoto Billiards
Right side: The Aki Company, Okashimo barber, Tokyo Laundry, L Street Laundry, Ido Cleaners, and Nippon Drugs…

The Aki Company

Looking north from M Street (Capital Mall)

Oral History Interview conducted with George Suzuki who grew up in Sacramento's Japantown during the 1930s and whose father worked at the Camellia City and Lemon Hill Nurseries.

A Neighborhood Lost: Sacramento’s Japantown is a 10-minute-long film that was selected as one of the finalists by Access Sacramento for their A Place Called Sacramento 2016 Film Festival. The documentary tells the history of Sacramento’s former…

The Japanese American veterans of WWII from Sacramento were denied membership in the local VFW Post, and so they set about creating their own Nisei Post. The Institution Ceremony and Installation of the Officers of the Nisei VFW Post No. 8985 was…