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The story of Oakland’s Japantown is unlike many other pre-World War II Japantowns in California. Oakland didn’t have a ...
San Francisco's Japantown is one of the few remaining across the country. Now, community members are hoping a new co-working ...
(Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group) These events are back for summer and early fall, from San Jose and Foster City to Pleasant Hill and Oakland on the other side ... at the Gordon Biersch Night ...
Jake P. Walter, 30, of Oakland, was an off-duty firefighter who was fatally shot Aug. 17, 2017 near San Jose's Japantown in what authorities describe as an unprovoked attack.
Update, 3:00 p.m.: A sign outside Marufuku Oakland announces the opening date will be February 28. That isn’t unwarranted: Since Marufuku opened in 2017 in the Japantown mall (1581 Webster Suite ...
Now, following the permanent closure of more than 2,000 businesses in the San Francisco and Oakland metro areas, Japantown’s family-owned shops and restaurants are fighting to survive the ...
Community leaders in Oakland's Chinatown are looking to paint a different image of their neighborhood, ... KOHO, San Francisco Japantown co-working venue, seeks to uplift community.
His answer was to start community patrols around San Jose’s Japantown. The retired San Jose cop is a member of the Japantown Community Congress and runs Japantown Prepared, a volunteer group ...
Two off-duty Oakland firefighters were shot, one fatally, in San Jose’s Japantown on Thursday night, and a 27-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the crime, police say.
Following San Francisco and Oakland’s citizen patrols walking its Chinatowns, longtime San Jose police officer Rich Saito is recruiting volunteers who will roam Japantown in red vests to deter ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- Japantown's community leaders in San Jose are heartbroken after a beloved monument in their neighborhood was vandalized. "The person takes something out of the backpack ...