And it's a miracle this place even still exists: Many of the 40-plus Japantowns scattered across the state were lost during the World War II era of Japanese American internment, but San Francisco ...

From 1910 to 1940, tens of thousands of immigrants entered the West Coast of the United States through the Angel Island Immigration Station. Located in San Francisco's North Bay ... site for the ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Two Bay Area residents KRON4 wants to highlight for Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month are Japanese-American artists Eri and Ryoko Hiruta. They are the artists ...

Community activists and neighbors gathered at in San Francisco's Japantown on Thursday to stand in solidarity for immigrants ...

An 83-year-old Japanese adventurer ... solo nonstop across the Pacific Ocean on a yacht. Kenichi Horie on Nov. 24 announced his plan to pilot his yacht from San Francisco to Japan aboard a ...

from Nishinomiya Port in Hyogo Prefecture to San Francisco, attracting attention both in Japan and the United States. His book on the trip, “Taiheiyo Hitoribocchi” (Alone Across the Pacific ...