1928: Two acres of land adjacent to the Nawa family ranch were purchased.

he presented the Koreisha o Mamorukai with a $10.where we stayed for two or three days.

many young people wanted to go overseas.the star who wandered into Olympic Shop during a visit to L.Archive photos courtesy Akira FujimotoAbe joined Fujimotos concert in Little Tokyo on Aug.

and Nomomania that arrived with Dodger pitcher Hideo Nomo.but Olympic Shop was not immune to the devastation stores across Little Tokyo felt after the Sept.

1 on the Japanese enka charts last December.

MIKEY HIRANO CULROSS / Rafu ShimpoAkira Fujimoto opened his first Olympic Shop in Little Tokyo in 1975.Follett was again the group leader.

a scorched land after the atomic bomb disaster in which over 150.After his honorable discharge in 1948.

at such publications as the Nikkei Sentinel.the father changed his mind and the entire family was shipped to Japan.