Brittany-Marie Swanson
@bswansonBrittany-Marie Swanson es estudiante de último año de Estudios Asiáticos en Occidental College. Su principal enfoque académico ha sido la cultura popular asiática, especialmente en lo que respecta a China y Corea. Entre otras cosas, ha escrito para varios periódicos del área de Los Ángeles.
Actualizado el 21 de abril de 2009
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Community Connections: Aihara Insurance’s 61-Year Commitment to Little Tokyo
21 de abril de 2009 • Brittany-Marie Swanson
Upon his return to Little Tokyo after World War II, veteran Luis K. Aihara found the community much changed. Though his own family had been uprooted and incarcerated in internment camps, they, and many other families of Japanese descent, flocked back to Little Tokyo where the majority of Buddhist temples and Japanese markets were located. Even after the chaos and displacement of war, Little Tokyo’s sense of community reemerged, and it was here in 1948 that Aihara founded his company, …