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August 22, 1986. Designated NHLD. June 12, 1995 [ 3] Little Tokyo ( Japanese: リトル・トーキョー ), also known as Little Tokyo Historic District, is an ethnically Japanese American district in downtown Los Angeles and the heart of the largest Japanese-American population in North America. [ 4] It is the largest and most populous of ...
English. Japanese. Budget. $8 million. Box office. $2.3 million [1] Showdown in Little Tokyo is a 1991 American buddy cop action film directed by Mark L. Lester, who also produced with Martin E. Caan. The film stars Dolph Lundgren and Brandon Lee; it was the latter's first American film role. The film was released in the United States on August ...
Food at the Tofu Festival in 2005. Los Angeles Tofu Festival, usually known as Tofu Festival or Tofu Fest, was a weekend matsuri held every August in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles from 1995 to 2007. Due to redevelopment in Little Tokyo there was no longer enough space to hold a festival of the size of Tofu Fest, and the last festival was held in 2007.
Recent years have seen continued evictions, closures and relocations among businesses that were once staples of the Little Tokyo community. Little Tokyo named one of America's most endangered ...
Little Tokyo erupted in chaos Saturday evening as suspects in a high-speed chase abandoned their car and fled through a crowded plaza.
Atomic Cafe window circa 1980. The Atomic Cafe was a diner located at 422 East First Street in the Little Tokyo district of Los Angeles, California.. History. The cafe opened in 1946, during the post-war Atomic Age marked with a pop culture obsession with all things atomic.
Project Angel Food has been running a marquee fundraiser, the Angel Awards, since 1995. The Angel Awards is the programs' largest annual fundraiser, reportedly netting over $515,000 at the 2014 gala. The 2014 dinner, hosted by Sharon Stone , featured the presentation of the inaugural Elizabeth Taylor Leadership Award to philanthropist Aileen Getty.
Little Tokyo Arts & Gifts is also facing relocation or closure. Anzen Hardware is moving to a building down the street. And last year, Little Tokyo Cosmetics was forced to leave its space on the ...