Decades in the making, the Terasaki Budokan will be a gathering place in a historic neighborhood threatened by assimilation and gentrification.
The crowd at the Little Tokyo gym roared as the basketball player, his team down a dozen points, dodged a defender, spun and hit a fadeaway shot.
The influx of visitors could provide a vital boost to Little Tokyo’s traditional Japanese stores and restaurants, which are at risk of displacement by chain cafes and hip sneaker shops after suffering through the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic. That same year, Watanabe had heard about a gym in San Francisco’s Japantown that was a hub for multiple generations of Japanese Americans.
After the war, some returned to Little Tokyo. As housing segregation eased up, Boyle Heights, Monterey Park, San Gabriel and Orange County became popular destinations.Today, relatively few Japanese Americans live in Little Tokyo. Many long-standing Japanese-owned businesses were already struggling before the pandemic, with some giving way to trendier stores.
First, they had to secure a site. They spent years focused on a property in the heart of Little Tokyo. But they facedfrom Rita Walters, a councilwoman from 1991 to 2001, who said she wanted the area turned into green space.
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