Brian Kito: There. That's mochi. Customer: Oh, this has been here forever, right? And it's the best. [laughs] Crystal: LA's Little Tokyo is the heart of the largest Japanese American population in ...

This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times. Sakuraya is just a mochi shop in Gardena, if you listen to owners Mas and Yuki Fujita tell it. They don’t do anything that different from any ...