Months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, a Japanese American fishing community on San Pedro’s Terminal Island was given 48 hours to pack its belongings before it was forced into incarceration camps throughout the West. After the evacuation, most of its village was razed.
But for more than 80 years, two buildings have been left standing. Now, the original residents, their families and supporters have mobilised to protect the last vestiges of their history on Tuna Street.
