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Little Tokyo and sushi in America
Los Angeles, California
The original uploader was Bobak at English Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons
The neighbourhood was emptied by internment in 1942 and rebuilt itself afterward. Kawafuku opened the first proper sushi bar in the country here in 1966, serving Japanese businessmen. Within twenty years raw fish had gone from unthinkable to unremarkable across America.
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