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Vancouver Sun: Rediscovering Vancouver’s lost Japantown

Japantown VancouverWords inscribed in the tile of a storefront still read U. Morimoto & Co.

The dry goods store was opened for just two years beginning in 1920, but the tile is one of the last remnants of what once was Vancouver’s Japantown, according to the Vancouver Sun.

About 10,000 Japanese Americans lived in the neighborhood, but they were sent to incarceration camps in British Columbia in 1942 and weren’t allowed to return to the west coast until 1949.

Japantown was left for dead.

Despite being declared as having heritage value, the Morimoto building and several others like it have not been added to the city’s heritage register.

So what is happening to Japantown today? You can read about that in the Vancouver Sun.

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