Japantown, San Francisco

There are three Japantowns in the United States left.San Francisco's Japantown,aka "J-Town" or "Little Osaka" because of a sistership with Osaka. It's the oldest and largest of them.After bombing Pearl Habour,a huge part of the Japanese Population was taken into internment camps.The district remained empty,but the african-american population filled the gap quickly.Some Japanese people returned, as an investment of the japanese government and many companies.The city tried to revive the district as an Japanese quater.Nowadays there are a lot of japanese restaurants, shops and festivals.But it is only a shadow of what it was before the Second World War.


Johanna Kruse & Kai Nohe