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The Lost Kinjo — Disappearing Japanese Neighborhoods

Welcome to Lost Kinjo, a year-long project to uncover a little-known chapter of Japanese American community.

California once thrived with more than 40 different Japanese American neighborhoods or kinjo prior to WWII. They have all disappeared.

Over the next year, we will tell the stories of these Lost Kinjo or neighborhoods and discover why Japanese Americans left and where they went.

AsAmNews gained its inspiration from Preserving California Japantowns, a project by Donna Graves and Jill Shiraki. The two worked tirelessly to identify the neighborhoods and to preserve its history.

This project is funded by the California State Library Japanese American Civil Liberties Program and the Takahashi Family Foundation.

Timeline

The Lost San Mateo Japantown and its beloved Takahashi Market

By Raymond Douglas Chong (This is part of our ongoing series, Lost Kinjo- a look at the more than 40 Japanese communities that disappeared after World...

Sun Cafe shined bright, even as others in Japantown faded

By Abe Levine (This is part of our ongoing series, Lost Kinjo- a look at the more than 40 Japanese communities that disappeared after World War...

Mountain View Japantown – A farming center pre-Silicon Valley

By Raymond Douglas Chong (This is part of our ongoing series, Lost Kinjo- a look at the more than 40 Japanese communities that disappeared after World...

Japanese family fought for right to own property and won

By Kiyomi Casey (This is part of our ongoing series, Lost Kinjo- a look at the more than 40 Japanese communities that disappeared after World War...

Early Japanese settled on land now owned by Donald Trump

By David Hosley (This is part of our ongoing series, Lost Kinjo- a look at the more than 40 Japanese communities that disappeared after World War...

Historic Japanese American home may be saved from demolition

(This is part of our ongoing series, Lost Kinjo- a look at the more than 40 Japanese communities that disappeared after World War II. It...

Japanese community MIA in multicultural Long Beach, CA

By Aviraj Gokool (This is part of our ongoing series, Lost Kinjo- a look at the more than 40 Japanese communities that disappeared after World War...

One Of California’s Early Japantowns, Gardena Still Reflects Its Issei Roots

By David Hosley (This is part of our ongoing series, Lost Kinjo- a look at the more than 40 Japanese communities that disappeared after World War...
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