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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 ...
Japantown (日本人街) is a common name for Japanese communities in cities and towns outside Japan. Alternatively, a Japantown may be called J-town, Little Tokyo or Nihonmachi (日本町), the first two being common names for Japantown, San Francisco, Japantown, San Jose and Little Tokyo, Los Angeles .
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 23, 1991.
Tokyo ( / ˈtoʊkioʊ /; [8] Japanese: 東京, Tōkyō, [toːkʲoː] ⓘ ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( 東京都, Tōkyō-to ), is the capital of Japan and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of over 14 million residents as of 2023 and the second-most-populated capital in the world. [9] The Greater Tokyo Area ...
Chiune Sugihara was born on 1 January 1900 ( Meiji 33), in Mino, Gifu prefecture, to a middle-class father, Yoshimi Sugihara (杉原好水, Sugihara Yoshimi), and an upper-middle class mother, Yatsu Sugihara (杉原やつ, Sugihara Yatsu). [5] When he was born, his father worked at a tax office in Kozuchi-town and his family lived in a borrowed ...
The Japanese American National Museum (全米日系人博物館, Zenbei Nikkeijin Hakubutsukan) is located in Los Angeles, California, and dedicated to preserving the history and culture of Japanese Americans. Founded in 1992, it is located in the Little Tokyo area near downtown. The museum is an affiliate within the Smithsonian Affiliations ...
Jimmy Doolittle. James Harold Doolittle (December 14, 1896 – September 27, 1993) was an American military general and aviation pioneer who received the Medal of Honor for his raid on Japan during World War II, known as the Doolittle Raid in his honor. [1] He made early coast-to-coast flights, record-breaking speed flights, won many flying ...
Retired. 1998. Shigeru Akabane (赤羽 茂, Akabane Shigeru, July 5, 1941 – September 6, 2011), best known under his ring name Little Tokyo, was a Japanese professional midget wrestler who competed in North American promotions from the 1970s into the 1990s including appearances for American Wrestling Association (AWA), National Wrestling ...