Brittany-Marie Swanson
@bswansonBrittany-Marie Swanson é estudante sênior de Estudos Asiáticos no Occidental College. Seu foco acadêmico principal tem sido a cultura popular asiática, especialmente no que diz respeito à China e à Coreia. Entre outras coisas, ela escreveu para vários jornais da região de Los Angeles.
Atualizado em 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, …
