George waits each morning by the door.

an Issei literary leader and Tule Lake incarceree.It is the only Japanese poetry on a monument in the United States.

a group of about 100 pro-Palestine demonstrators marched through Little Tokyo protesting the Israeli-Hamas war.Issei leader of the Japanese literary movement of the 1930s and 1940s.Free Gaza is spray-painted on the monument at Second Street and Central Avenue in Little Tokyo.

The plaza was dedicated to Hondas parents.who for the past 18 years has cleaned up the trash and removed tagging from around the monument whenever he could.

Tule Lake became a maximum-security segregation camp where over 18.

Honda (developer Bob Masami Honda) understood the importance of it and agreed to allow the monument to be built (on the plaza).as a contract worker harvesting grapes.

Protestors said that this is part of a trend toward forcing out family-owned businesses and gentrifying the neighborhood.She said that her family was never informed that Kei-Ai L.

Little Tokyo means a lot to me.Joyce Valenzuela spoke about her father.