As shipping forecasts have grown at one of the world’s busiest seaports, officials have allocated hundreds of millions of dollars for storage and rail yard expansion, restoration and electrification projects. — Dreamstime/TNS
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.
