Chicago's last Japanese neighborhood
by editors@theworld.org (Katherine Nagasawa) from The World: Latest Stories on (#6ZDZQ)
Chicago has so many ethnic enclaves - it has Greektown, it has Chinatown. But what happened to the Lake View Japanese American community, and where did it go? The answer is directly tied to a Chicago immigrant experience like no other. Japanese Americans didn't end up in Chicago of their own accord: The US government forcibly resettled 20,000 of them to the city from World War II incarceration camps. And, as part of that effort, the government pressured them to shed their Japanese identities and assimilate into white society. Katherine Nagasawa reports from WBEZ in Chicago.