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Little Tokyo is a revitalized cultural,
religious and commercial center
of the Japanese-American community
with the Japan Village as a center.

Since the opening of a small cafe in 1844,
the first business run by an Issei
(as the immigrants called themselves)
immigration increased steadily
and soon Japanese restaurants, dry goods
and drug stores, barber shops,
groceries and rooming houses
opened in this area south of City Hall.

The American-born, second generation,
the Nisei managed to maintain Little Tokyo's
economy during the Great Depression.

During World War II citizens of Japanese
ancestry were held in internment camps
without due process of law.

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