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Children playing in between apartments in Japantown in 1964.

The Fuji Transfer Company located at 1640 Post Street. The company specialized in sending items to and from Japan. Next door was the Uoki Fish Market that was the oldest store in Japantown and was started by Kitaichi Sakai in 1906 after the…

The Aki Hotel was located at 1651 Post Street and was run by the Ichiro Kataoka and his wife. Before the war the hotel was the unofficial home for the Japanese Consulate. Because of this and the fact that Ichiro was a leader of the Japanese community…

During the internment Japantown was occupied by other minority groups who had come to the city looking for work and settled in the unoccupied neighborhood. Japantown was filled to overcrowding with people working to aid the war effort and when the…

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 some people protested by going out and unofficially changing the name of Japan Street located in the Embarcadero. One month after the bombing the streets committee of the San Francisco Board of…

Houses along Bush Street in Japantown 1968.

Members of the Shin Sekai Japanese newspaper running a table on Post Street to collect funds for the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake in Japan.

The Japantown in South Park was built up after the 1906 Earthquake demolished the original Japantowns located around Chinatown and South of Market Street. The South Park Japantown was located alongside South Park Street between 2nd and 3rd Streets.…

The Honnami Taieido started out in 1950 at 1709 Buchanan Street selling general goods such as stationary, magazines, and gifts to the local community. Over time they started to specialize in just selling goods from Japan. Over the years the Honnami…

A family standing out front of the Buddhist Church of San Francisco in 1934. The Buddhist Church was founded in 1898 and was the first Pure Land Buddhist Church in America. The Church was originally located at 807 Polk Street but was destroyed in the…