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The 4th Street Pharmacy was opened in the Post-War period between Dave Sakamoto and Tomoo Inouye who ran it for over forty years. The pharmacy was a major stopping spot for the local community as it had the only post office in the area and its lunch…

This short documentary was created in 1990 by Curt Fukuda and Dr. Tokio Ishikawa for the Japanese American Resource Center in preparation for the Japantown Centennial. Using a slide show of images Dr. Tokio Ishikawa narrates the history of the…

The inside of the clothing store in Japantown

Many of the General Stores would sell goods from Japan as well as local necessities.

The inside of a Japanese restaurant in Japantown

A farm in Oak Park with Japanese laborers

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 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…

Many Japanese who wished to integrate themselves into American society would attend Americanization classes offered by local schools. One such school that was located near to Japantown was the Raphael Weill Center. The school was named after a…