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experiencing visually and physically the items for sale; understanding and appreciating the workmanship and intense labor of love that went into our items.Although Skip was gone by then.

Brick-and-mortar stores cannot survive without customers actually walking in.Tsukada Company and Wakayanagi Restaurant.Skip jumped at the opportunity to take over Onishi’s portion when he decided to retire.

Rafu Bussan’s longtime employees.between First and Second streets in the Little Tokyo/Arts District neighborhood.

up until recently still continued her father’s store.

and in many ways she thought she was spoiled and always had nice and neat clothes.One of the things it really destroyed was the strong Japanese family structure.

I can keep up with a 50-year-old.he shared his memories of his familys wartime experience: I was three years in the Topaz internment camp in Utah.

Thats about the most damaging thing thats happened.Whereas when I was here in Oakland.