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“About 4,000 people went to Japan, and the rest went east of the Rockies. RoCookies help us deliver our services. It has since been returned and restored as a cultural centre with a new language school addition. Japantown: Vancouver’s Lost Neighbourhood - Part 1 By John Mackie / 20 Feb 2014 U. Morimoto & Co. dry goods rented a storefront at 328 Powell St. for only two years, in 1920 and 1921. Burger brought back the original exterior, then turned the 3,000-sq.-ft main floor into a big open space for an ultracontemporary office.“Because of the way it’s built, with the truss system and the ribs for the concrete, you (can) have a clear span,” he explains.“There’s no interior walls that hold it up.

It even had its own park, the Powell Street Grounds (Oppenheimer Park), home to the legendary Asahi baseball team.“It was never called Japantown; sometimes it was referred to as Little Tokyo,” said Carter.

Now that I'm planning a return trip (shopping for Japanese books and other Japanese goodies), I find that (according to Wikipedia) Japantown is in the dreaded "Downtown Eastside" which frequently is profiled in less-than-glowing terms.

Breadcrumb Trail Links. Stanger-Ross says a committee was formed by the city “to investigate the quality of housing of Japanese-Canadians, particularly in the Powell Street neighbourhood.”City departments began to condemn Japanese-Canadian housing and raise concerns about “the prospects of that property being rented to white tenants.”Alderman George Buscombe upped the ante in 1942, asking the federal custodian of the Japanese-Canadian property, “Can’t you just liquidate all these properties, the way you liquidated (the Japanese-Canadian) fishing vessels?’”The federal government eventually agreed, and sold off all Japanese-Canadian property, save for the Japanese Hall on Alexander Street.When Japanese-Canadians were allowed to come back to the coast in 1949, few returned to Japantown.“In 1946, when they were leaving the internment camps, they were given the (option) of going east of the Rockies, or going to Japan,” explains Carter. We’ve gutted it and rebuilt it, saved it from extinction.”It was built for the Japanese Trust Company in 1913 and at some point a giant garage door had been installed in front. “There are all sorts of people that are in trouble around here.”But Turner said Japantown is a good place to live. My mother particularly, who had no English. (But) we’re adding social mix to that area, in particular we’re adding market rental, as an appropriate mix for that part of town.”Few people realize it, but the city of Vancouver began in Japantown, not Gastown.The Hastings Mill was located on the waterfront at the foot of Dunlevy in 1865. It was there for people to support each other, find work for each other, people like my parents. The Vancouver Buddhist Church, formerly the Japanese Methodist Church, still exists at 220 Jackson Street (at Powell),Until the boom in Japanese restaurants in the 1980s, two restaurants on Powell Street were among the only Japanese dining in the city.An upscale enclave of ethnic Japanese retailers and restaurants known as the The new enclave has been gaining momentum over the course of the last forty years with an increasing number of high-end restaurants, dance clubs, karaoke bars, shops, and upscale boutiques.

The Railtown industrial area is humming with activity from the many high-tech, fashion and design companies who have been attracted to the area for its cheap rents and character buildings.The Railtown Café at 397 Railway St. has become one of Vancouver’s hottest lunch spots. Japantown has no official heritage designation, such as that enjoyed by Gastown and Chinatown, although city planner Kevin McNaney says that may come with a new community plan that should go to council in mid-March.Burger likes the character of the small heritage buildings in the area, but fears they will get caught between the twin forces of condo development and social housing.“This area is at a critical turning point, and the current (city) policy will wipe this off the map, because it will be financially unviable to do what we’re doing here,” he said.“It will be financially viable to push over 200 to 300 linear feet on a block and raise up a beige condo.

The Komura family were forced out of the building in 1942, when Japanese-Canadians were evicted from the West Coast by the federal government.A man rides a scooter down Powell Street in front of the old Maikawa department store in Vancouver’s historic Japantown recently. “Armed with sticks, clubs, iron bars, revolvers, knives, and broken glass bottles, the enraged (Japanese) poured forth into the streets as soon as the limit of their patience had been reached.“Armed with only stones, the mob could not stand before the onslaught of knives and broken bottles propelled by the Japanese while they made the air ring with ‘banzais.’ Many of the Japanese went to the ground as stones thumped against their heads, but the insensible ones were carried off by friends, and the fight kept up till the mob wavered, broke and finally retreated.”Japantown recovered from the riot to become a bustling neighbourhood.“Lots of activity, lots of businesses spilling out onto the street, like vegetable vendors,” says Carter. Alexander was one of the main residential streets for Vancouver’s historic Japantown.

It was too much work to pick up and relocate back again to the coast.”The area languished, and became somewhat notorious.“Most people are too afraid to come down to this part of the world, because of the kind of people that are around,” says Richard Turner, an artist who has lived in the neighbourhood for decades.

Please try again© 2020 Vancouver Sun, a division of Postmedia Network Inc. All rights reserved. It was a place where she didn’t need to worry about that, because there was everything there.“It was very sad when it just died. They went, they settled, they had to basically start from scratch in 1946 in Ontario or various communities.“Over the next three years they got settled and started to build a life again. The art deco facade of the building at 365 Powell still retains the Maikawa name from when it opened in 1936.Maikawa Fish Market at 333 Powell St., Vancouver, circa 1918. Gastown grew up around Gassy Jack Deighton’s saloon, which popped up in the late 1860s at today’s Carrall and Water.In the 1880s, Alexander Street was a tony residential street.

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