Months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, a Japanese American fishing community on San Pedro’s Terminal Island was given 48 hours to pack its belongings before it was forced into incarceration camps ...
From the turn of the 20th century to the early 1940s, a human-made island in San Pedro Bay held a flourishing Japanese American fishing village that helped develop Southern California’s mighty seafood ...
Tim Yamamoto's late grandfather once ran a grocery store from one of the last buildings that remain of the old Terminal Island fishing village — a history many hope to preserve. (Al Seib / For The ...
San Pedro’s Terminal Island was once home to a bustling Japanese-American fishing village. Japanese fishermen brought tuna fishing expertise which in turn revolutionized the canning industry on the ...