And it's a miracle this place even still exists: Many of the 40-plus Japantowns scattered across the state were lost during the World War II era of Japanese American internment, but San Francisco ...

Founded in 1906, San Francisco’s Japantown was the first Japanese American community to settle and establish itself in the United States. San Francisco’s Japantown (Nihonmachi) has been the ...

which was San Francisco's first multicultural neighborhood. The neighbor first served as the heart of the city's African-American community as well as hosted Japanese-Americans during the second ...