Lost LA: From Little Tokyo to Crenshaw (film)

Episode of the Lost LA public television series that looks at the return of Japanese Americans to Los Angeles Little Tokyo after their wartime incarceration and the postwar evolution of the Seinan or Crenshaw community, where Japanese Americans and African Americans lived side-by-side for several decades. Host Nathan Masters interviews Japanese American National Museum curator and collection manager Kristen Hayashi about the return to Little Tokyo and subsequent move to the suburbs; dancer and activist Nobuko Miyamoto , who grew up in the Crenshaw neighborhood after the war; Vietnam veteran and activist Nick Nagatani, who was one of the founders of Yellow Brotherhood, a social service organization in the community; and Joy Simmons, a local activist and arts advocate who grew up with many Japanese Americans in the 1960s and 1970s.

Produced by KCETLink and the USC Libraries, the Lost LA series features little known stories of the history of Los Angeles. "From Little Tokyo to Crenshaw" is the third episode of the series to have a Japanese American incarceration related storyline.

Might also like From a Different Short: An American Identity (1994); The Finale Club (2018); Reparations (2021)