Backstory and you will Perspective
San Francisco's first Japanese immigrants (or Issei) arrived in the early 1860s, paying down mainly into the Chinatown and you can Southern Playground. Meanwhile, on the 1870s, the brand new Western Addition (such as the property who be Japantown, otherwise Nihonmachi) subdivision had been switched away from an exotic, chaparral habitat to have bobcats, rabbits, and you will quail, to the an excellent Victorian people. In the event that quake and after that flame away from 1906 drove many San Franciscans out of their house, tent villages throughout the West Addition's areas given...