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	Japantown, San Francisco, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		San Francisco has the largest Japantown in California, although it is only a shadow of what it once was before World War II.
		[8] [9] [10] [11] [12] On March 14, 2006, a rally led by Public Defender Jeff Adachi was held at San Francisco's City Hall, and the petition of 16,235 signatures was officially submitted to Mayor Gavin Newsom.
		On the same day of this article's publication, a meeting was held in the legislative chambers of San Francisco's City Hall where the legislation was discussed and received the recommendation of the panel members.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japantown,_San_Francisco (991 words)

	Japantown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Japantown is a common name for official Japanese American or Japanese Canadian communities in big cities.
		Japantowns were created because of the widespread immigration of Japanese to America in the Meiji period.
		There are currently three Japantowns left in the United States, which are facing issues such as commercialization, reconstruction, and dwindling Japanese populations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japantown (250 words)

	San Francisco Japantown 100th Anniversary - History of San Francisco's Japantown
		San Francisco's Japantown, Nihonjin machi or Nihonmachi, is the oldest Japanese community in the continental United States.
		Japantown is located in the area bordered by O'Farrell on the South, Pine on the North, Fillmore on the West and Octavia on the East.
		Residents of San Francisco were primarily placed in Topaz, near the town of Delta, in the Utah desert where they live in horse stalls surrounded by barbed wire chain-link fences and armed guards in watch towers.
	sfjapantown100.squarespace.com /history (3751 words)

	San Francisco's JapanTown
		Today's JapanTown was formed after the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and fire and occupies an area of the Filmore district that is roughly within the confines of California Street to the north, O'Farrell Street to the south, Fillmore to the west and Laguna to the east.
		JapanTown was also negatively impacted by redevelopment in the 1950's with the widening of Geary Boulevard and the destruction of dozens of Victorians to make room for both the boulevard and the Japan Center Mall.
		The AMC Kabuki 8 Theater — home to the annual San Francisco Asian American Film Festival — is at the western most end of the Japan Center mall and the Kabuki Springs and Spa is at the other end, just a block from the Filmore Auditorium on the other side of Geary Boulevard.
	www.inetours.com /Pages/SFNbrhds/JapanTown.html (461 words)

	Japantown (San Francisco, CA) News
		San Francisco / Move for Japantown as special-use district / Terms of...
		The "Save Japantown" campaign will move to San Francisco City Hall this morning with a march and rally in support of proposed legislation to turn the embattled neighborhood into a special-use district.
		A large portion of San Francisco's Japantown -- one of three remaining in the United States -- is for sale, prompting concerns that the historic district could lose its unique character.
	www.topix.net /city/san-francisco-ca-japantown (753 words)

	San Francisco Bay Guardian \| News
		As San Francisco's Japantown celebrates its 100-year anniversary, the threat of cultural displacement looms.
		Though the Japanese American population in Japantown is on the decline, it is still a strong cultural hub, with 150 small businesses, a cultural center, several social service agencies, and a bilingual preschool.
		"Japantown is not just people who live or work here — Japanese Americans come back to Japantown for a sense of community," said Sandy Mori of Kimochi, a senior service agency based in Japantown that serves 2,000 elderly Japanese Americans in the Bay Area.
	www.sfbg.com /40/22/news_japantown.html (1070 words)

	Japantown : - San Francisco Neighborhood
		Japantown is dominated by the three-block-long Japan Center and its orderly collection of theaters, bars, shops and restaurants.
		The neighborhood's history, though, is a little more gritty.Around 1860 a wave of Japanese immigrants arrived in San Francisco, and many settled in the Western Addition (west of the current Japantown) after the earthquake of 1906.
		Today's Japanese American population, at 12,000, is smaller than in the city's heyday, but still enriches the cultural mix of San Francisco.At the heart of Japantown, which locals call "J-Town," is the Japan Center (Post Street between Fillmore and Laguna streets).
	www.travelgrande.com /san-francisco-travel-guide/japantown-info.htm (180 words)

	San Francisco/Japantown - Wikitravel
		Nihonmachi, also known as Japantown, the Japan Center, and Little Osaka is a district of San Francisco.
		Most former Japanese-American residents of San Francisco chose not to return after the World War II related reloaction, and the largest Japanese-American community in San Francisco today can be found in the Sunset neighborhood.
		Japantown was also negatively impacted by redevelopment in the 1950's with the widening of Geary Boulevard and the destruction of dozens of Victorians to make room for both the boulevard.
	wikitravel.org /en/San_Francisco/Japantown (1105 words)

	JDV Hospitality: a group of boutique San Francisco hotels
		San Francisco, one of the most romantic and cosmopolitan cities in the country, draws the hearts of business and leisure travelers from around the world.
		San Francisco is a vibrant and fun filled city with hidden gems around every corner.
		Inspired by San Francisco's rich cinematic history, the Hotel Bijou in Union Square is adorned with movie palace stylings, dramatic Hollywood portraits, and a mini-movie theater in the lobby.
	www.jdvhospitality.com /sf.php?gst (1050 words)

	Japantowns preamble
		San Francisco's Japantown has been at its current location, near Post and Buchanan Streets in the Western Addition, for about 100 years.
		They moved back to Japantown when the steamships from Japan shifted from Piers 30-32 further north, and immigration restrictions cut traffic back and forth to Japan (South Park is ideally suited two blocks from the waterfront and two blocks from the old SP Depot).
		Back in the 1990s, San Francisco's Japanese American History Archives (JAHA, now defunct) had done a set of maps showing the locations of JA businesses all over the city in 1900, 1910, 1940, 1950, 1970, and 1990.
	www.peasepress.com /Japantowns.html (2796 words)

	Pact signed to ‘preserve Japantown’ - Examiner.com
		SAN FRANCISCO - City officials have reached a pact with a developer to preserve the cultural character of two Japantown malls and a hotel whose sale had neighborhood residents worried about the demise of one of the nation's few remaining Japanese enclaves.
		Japantown residents are anxious about the sale of the malls and hotels, along with the Kabuki 8 movie theater.
		Residents fear the sales will result in the final blow to the community, which along with Japantowns in San Jose and Los Angeles is one of only three in the United States.
	www.examiner.com /a-84885~Pact_signed_to__preserve_Japantown_.html (594 words)

	San Francisco rent a car and Japantown
		Japantown is currently one of San Francisco’s smaller districts, so it should only take Super Cheap travelers no longer than two or three hours to explore the neighborhood in its entirety.
		The next stop on your Japantown San Francisco rent a car itinerary should be the Peace Plaza, which is located at Nihonmachi’s core in Japan Center.
		San Francisco rent a car travelers craving some good ole American fast food should definitely visit the Japan-infused Denny’s on Post Street and was as the Pasta Pomodoro right next to the Kabuki Theater.
	www.supercheapcar.com /japantown2.html (656 words)

	Nikkei Heritage: San Francisco Japantown: The Prewar Era
		Stemming from a confluence of racism and convenience, immigrant enclaves originally serves as havens against the pervasive hostility of the dominant culture.
		For many Japantowns, the wartime eviction of Japanese Americans from the West Coast was a death blow.
		On the other hand, Japantowns provided community—places to congregate, to share and pass on cultural values, to exchange ideas and to amass the energy to implement them.
	www.njahs.org /nh/nhvxiin3.html (566 words)

	San Francisco's Japantown
		The Vapors may be long gone, but San Francisco's Nihonmachi, otherwise known as Japantown, still exists.
		Japantown first sprung up with the original influx of Japanese immigrants in the mid-1800s.
		Japantown is one of the city's smaller districts, so it should take no longer than two or three hours to stroll through the locale in its entirety.
	www.newcolonist.com /japantown.html (1465 words)

	Keeping Japantown alive
		Japantown has undergone not only major demographic shifts but massive shrinkage as well: from 30 blocks in prewar days to barely eight today, bounded roughly by Fillmore, Octavia and Sutter streets and Geary Boulevard.
		The goal of the 45-member Japantown Planning, Preservation and Development Task Force is to come up with a blueprint to prevent Japantown from meeting the same fate as the Italian enclave in the Excelsior or the Irish area of the Mission.
		Soon after Durazo moved to San Francisco from Salinas in 1991, she chose to live in the Western Addition to be close to Japantown, where she hoped to meet like-minded social activists.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/examiner/archive/1999/03/21/METRO14132.dtl (1440 words)

	San Francisco Japantown 100th Anniversary - Workshop Series
		I am Yosuke Kawana, Vice Consul of the Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco and in charge of cultural affairs.
		Learn what traditions have made its way across the Pacific to be a part of our culture and community here in San Francisco and why certain food items, displays and games are played on this day.
		Speakers who are native San Franciscans, long time residents or experts knowledgeable about a particular field will be asked to make a presentation on the subject matter created for that month.
	sfjapantown100.squarespace.com /workshopseries (802 words)

	San Francisco Neighborhoods - Japantown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Japantown is a collection of cultural sites, restaurants, teahouses, shops, and theaters - it honors and showcases the beauty of Japanese culture.
		Japantown is not designed to afford the visitor with a look at authentic Japanese daily life, but rather a glimpse into its finest cultural aspects.
		An afternoon would be sufficient time to spend in Japantown and see it thoroughly.
	www.mapwest.com /neighborhoods/htdocs/japantown.html (137 words)

	doublexposure: San Francisco
		This is the underbelly of the Bay bridge in San Francisco.
		I have so many shots from San Francisco (as you may have seen) that I will sprinkle the site from time to time with these.
		To keep on running without stumbling because my eyes were always on the right, looking at the San Francisco bay, I had to look at this, the path where I ran.
	doublexposure.blogs.com /doublexposure/san_francisco (777 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Heart of San Francisco's Japantown Up For Sale
		San Franciscans are never more abroad than when they are at home, or so they say, with ethnic microcosms stitched into the City offering a change of pace and a window into another world.
		In its centennial anniversary, however, Japantown in San Francisco might turn into a just another faceless slice of land in the San Francisco District.
		Japanese residents of Japantown endured adversity in the past 60 years when they were forced to move to camps during WWII and later in the 60s when about 1,500 residents were evicted because of major construction on Geary Boulevard.
	www.theepochtimes.com /news/6-2-17/38279.html (510 words)

	SAN FRANCISCO / Japantown rounds out a century / Heyday passed long ago, but area still cultural, social hub
		"Japantown used to be 20 to 30 square blocks," said centennial co-chair Allen Okamoto, whose grandfather owned a shoe shop and was among the Japanese immigrants who flocked to San Francisco in the late 19th century.
		Two Japantown businesses that have endured and are celebrating their centennial along with the neighborhood are Benkyo-do confectionary shop and Uoki Sakai food market.
		Benkyo-do is San Francisco's last maker of manju and other traditional desserts filled with sweet bean paste that are year-round treats and near-essential elements for holidays and ceremonies.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/01/14/BAGBJGN6TR1.DTL (917 words)

	Japantown
		San Francisco's Japantown has been the center of the local Japanese American community for nearly 100 years.
		Since the 1880s, Japanese immigrants started arriving in the United States, and San Francisco was the port of entry for those seeking opportunity and education here.
		Few are aware that there were once three "Japantowns" in San Francisco, and although the South of Market and Chinatown Japanese communities have long since disappeared, the Western Addition Japantown has existed since 1906.
	www.jtowntaskforce.org /jtown.htm (389 words)

	Stop the sale and possible destruction of San Francisco's Japantown Petition
		We the concerned people of San Francisco’s Japantown are outraged by the actions taken by the Kintesu of America Corporation for their intention to sell all of all the property that they own in Japantown.
		Thus Japantown was downsized to a near three blocks east to west, and two blocks north and south.
		The Stop the sale and possible destruction of San Francisco's Japantown Petition to Mayor and Board of Supervisors of City and County of San Francisco, Kintesu of America Corporation, and AMC/Lowes Theatre Corporation was created by and written by Aaron Kitashima (ak317@akit.org).
	www.petitiononline.com /jtown/petition.html (446 words)

	SAN FRANCISCO NEIGHBORHOODS GUIDE - Fisherman's Wharf, Union Square and more
		The heart of Japantown is Japan Center, a five-acre complex of hotels, shops, theaters, sushi bars and restaurants at Post and Buchanan Streets.
		It is crowned by a five-tiered pagoda, a symbol of eternal peace.
		Visitors wishing to take a little piece of Japantown home can purchase Japanese vegetable seeds for planting, silk-embroidered kimonos, books on Japanese arts and crafts, silk calligraphy scrolls, tea ceremony utensils and many other traditional items.
	onlyinsanfrancisco.com /neighborhoods/description.asp?nid=30 (175 words)

	Japantowns - DiscoverNikkei.org
		Japantowns and Japanese enclaves spread over the whole area of Southeast Asia such as Faifo (Vietnam), Ponhealeu (Cambodia), San Miguel (the Philippines), and Batavia, Amboina, Banda (Indonesia).
		Japantown Task Force, Inc. was created in the year 2001 in order to continue the work of the previous 50-member Japantown Planning, Preservation, and Development Task Force organization.
		Profiles several companies in California Japantowns that are maintaining the tradition of making tofu, and the struggles they face in attracting a new generation of Japanese Americans to follow in their business footsteps.
	www.discovernikkei.org /wiki/Japantowns (2926 words)

	California Council for the Humanities: Programs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		When Japanese Americans returned to what was left of San Francisco's Japantown after being interned during the war, they created a vibrantethnic neighborhood filled with small businesses, restaurants, cultural and religious organizations, and hundreds of families.
		That community, part of the larger area known as the Western Addition, was radically altered in the 1960s when much of the area was razed for a massive redevelopment project.
		While Japantown survives today, it is a drastically different neighborhood from what it once was.
	www.calhum.org /programs/story_rebirth.htm (185 words)

	Japantown Apartments for rent Japantown apartment rentals, Japantown furnished apartments to rent.
		Japantown Apartments for rent Japantown apartment rentals, Japantown furnished apartments to rent.
		About Us Sublet.com is a Japantown apartment rental website that advertises Japantown apartments, Japantown roommates, Japantown houses for rent Japantown sublets and subleases.
		Japantown housing rentals, apartments, roommates, houses, tenants and landlords have not been verified or evaluated.
	www.sublet.com /area_rentals/California/Japantown_Rentals.asp (69 words)

	2004 Kodomo no Hi (Children's Day) Festival in San Francisco's Japantown
		SAN FRANCISCO (April 27, 2004) - The 12th annual Kodomo no Hi (Children’s Day) Festival will be held on Sunday, May 16, 2004 from 11 a.m.
		The Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California presents this annual festival in recognition of the national holiday of Japan, which was established after World War II in efforts to lift spirits and celebrate children.
		The JCCCNC is a non-profit community center based in San Francisco.
	www.jcccnc.org /about/press/2004-04-27_ChildrensDay.htm (280 words)

	San Francisco Japantown Slum Danger Studied - 1942
		Civic and business leaders in San Francisco today went all out to find a suitable plan that will prevent the Japanese district from turning into the worst slum in the history of the city.
		While any ways of meeting the problem were being studied, however, there was a possibility that all would be stymied, because California has no law that will permit the establishment of a slum clearance project.
		Albert Evers, director of the San Francisco Housing Authority, declared the area might serve to meet the local housing shortage, if, properly rehabilitated, it were offered to defense workers or opened to the overflow from Chinatown.
	www.sfmuseum.org /hist8/slum3.html (419 words)

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