Sacramento's Little Saigon neighborhood is full of Asian American businesses today, all because of refugees who fought to preserve their culture and find a sense of community.

These buildings were once Sacramento’s Japantown. It’s been 82 years since Japanese inhabitants were forcibly removed from Sacramento and sent to internment camps. Recently, their descendants ...

Stan Umeda grew up going to Sacramento's Japantown. In its heyday, it was the fourth-largest Japanese community in the nation, with 500 Japanese-owned businesses. "It was fabulous because the ...

In a sad coincidence, May 5 also marked the day in 1955 the federal government gave the city of Sacramento permission to demolish what was left of Japantown in the name of "redevelopment." ...

A group called Reclaim Sacramento Japantown is creating a mural this month to uplift the history of Japanese Americans who were displaced from downtown — twice. Jim Tabuchi, the facilitator for ...

(FOX40.COM) — In the final days of Asian American and Pacific Islander Month, a new mural containing images of Sacramento’s historic Japantown neighborhood was unveiled. The “Sakuramento ...

“There used to be blocks and blocks of Japantown,” Nakatani says. Born and raised in the famously tree-filled Northern California city of Sacramento, Nakatani still remembers when the streets ...

WEBVTT RANCE OF JAPAN-TOWN.TEO: IN 1940, SACRAMENTO'SJAPAN-TOWN WAS IN ITS HEYDAY.200 BUSINESSES CALLED AT HOME.IT WAS LOCATED HERE ON CAPITOLMALL.WHAT HAPPENED?THE ANSWER CAN BE FOUND HERE ATTHE ...

The area is also historically and culturally significant, where neighborhoods such as Sacramento Japantown were demolished and residents displaced during construction of the freeway. Planners ...

The mural at Fourth Street and Capitol Mall depicts Sacramento’s Japantown to help celebrate Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders Heritage Month.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (FOX40.COM) — In the final days of ...