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The Aki Company

Looking north from M Street (Capital Mall)

The San Jose Asahi Team was formed in 1913 and was one of the longest lasting Japanese American baseball teams, although the team did change its name multiple times until its breakup in 1961. This photograph is of the B team playing a tournament in…

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…

Houses along Bush Street in Japantown 1968.