Talk:Japantown

Official Japantowns and Japanese populations
Torrance and Sawtelle are areas with Japanese populations, they are not official/historic Japantowns.

There are 3 Japantowns in the US currently, but many Japanese populations, mostly in Hawaii, the West Coast, and Colorado.70.187.164.216 00:44, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Age of Commerce
I was thinking about writing an article on Nihonmachi in 16th-17th century Southeast Asia - Ayutthaya, Phnom Penh, Hoi An, Pho Hien, and Manila were among the largest. "Nihonmachi" is by far the most common term in scholarship, and certainly the most accurate and concise. I think it might be best to create a separate article, but having two separate articles labeled Japantown and Nihonmachi won't really do (or will it?). Suggestions? Thank you. LordAmeth 12:15, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I would certainly think that there should be enough information on historical (as opposed to modern/existing) Japanese settlements in southeast Asia and China to create a separate article. --MChew 15:21, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Done. Nihonmachi is not *really* quite ready, but I decided to move it from my Sandbox anyway. I'll polish up the intro and such later today. LordAmeth 23:37, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Paris japantown
Why there is nothing about Paris Japantown ? it is listed in the japanese version of article.  Minato ku (talk) 00:36, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

merge proposal
I propose the merger of Nihonmachi and Japantown, as the same topic, with a great deal of overlap and continuity between them. I am not married to either name, I just think they would be better as a single inclusive article. Chris 16:07, 1 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Agreed. The Nihonmachi article should be moved over to the Japantown article. Boneyard90 (talk) 03:56, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Concentrated and historical Japanese populations in the United States: Port Washington, NY?
Under the heading "Concentrated and historical Japanese populations in the United States", I did not see Port Washington, NY. Granted, I doubt it was ever as big a community as Fort Lee, NJ but it seems to be a consistent enclave of Japanese Americans which I've noticed since the early 1990s. There's probably not much evidence, but if anyone has anything to share, it's most welcome.

Concentrated and historical Japanese populations in the United States: Southern CA
Yes, Los Angeles has 5 high concentrations of Japanese - Little Tokyo in downtown, Sawtelle in Westside, crenshaw in South Central (not as many like before 1965), Long Beach and Gardena/Torrance/Lomita area (history of Japanese fishermen and kelp farmers off Palos Verdes Peninsula).

Here are the largest concentrations of Japanese to be mentioned:


 * Imperial county: Brawley (Colorado River valley region with Blythe, Needles and Yuma AZ).


 * Kern county: Delano (also Filipino, Indian, Mexican and Yugoslav farm worker history).


 * Orange county: Costa Mesa (also many Micronesians for a town its size).


 * Riverside county: Palm Desert (Coachella Valley's agricultural history).


 * San Bernardino county: Fontana (a "Nihonmachi" or Little Japanese section until WW2).


 * San Diego county: Vista (there's a Japanese cultural center, one of 2 in So CA).


 * San Luis Obispo county: Nipomo (coastal farming area).


 * Santa Barbara county: estimated 15,000 Japanese in the county, esp. in Santa Barbara.

67.49.89.214 (talk) 19:30, 21 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Ventura county: Oxnard (the 1905 Japanese-Mexican farm labor strike).

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Japanese populations - proportion vs. absolute numbers
By parsing it in this way, it makes small cities (e.g. Palo Alto: pop. ~68,000; 2% Japanese, or ~1360 people) seem more important to the development of Nikkei culture than larger cities where they're more numerous but proportionally fewer (Toronto: pop. ~2.8 million; 0.5% Japanese, or ~14,000).

The article would benefit from reorganizing based on Census Metropolitan Areas or similar. Most of these smaller cities are bedroom communities of large cities like Vancouver and San Francisco, where they could be included to leave more room in the article to highlight truly small cities with high proportions of Japanese descendants and/or immigrants (e.g. Ontario, Oregon: pop. ~11,000). In that vein, and in contrast to the above, the number of Japanese in the Greater Toronto Area is ~20,000 people. The difference with the City of Toronto proper is owed to those Japanese living in nearby municipalities. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.113.230.154 (talk) 02:17, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

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Official
What on earth is an official Japanese community? What makes communities, Japanese or other, official or not? 31.52.252.247 (talk) 21:38, 30 March 2019 (UTC)

Without historical information (e.g. Internment Camps)
The article is mainly a list without historical or other information. Maybe there should be some tag in the article. A short search gave me this example: Approximately 120,000 people of Japanese descent were forced to evacuate their homes, 70,000 of whom were American citizens. --Amtiss, SNAFU ? 13:08, 9 August 2020 (UTC)