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The first group of Japanese in Chicago arrived in 1892. They came as part of the Columbian Exposition so they could build the Ho-o-den Pavilion in Chicago. [1] In 1893 the first known Japanese individual in Chicago, Kamenosuke Nishi, moved to Chicago from San Francisco. He opened a gift store, and Masako Osako, author of "Japanese Americans ...
Jun Fujita (Japanese: 藤田 準之助, Fujita Junnosuke, 13 December 1888 - 12 July 1963) was a first-generation Japanese-American photojournalist, photographer, silent film actor, and published poet in the United States. He was the first Japanese-American photojournalist.
A total of 71 Japanese-born [1] [2] players have played in at least one Major League Baseball (MLB) game. Of these players, twelve are on existing MLB rosters.The first instance of a Japanese player playing in MLB occurred in 1964, when the Nankai Hawks, a Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) team, sent three exchange prospects to the United States to gain experience in MLB's minor league system.
The phoenix emblem was a reference to Chicago rising like the mythical firebird from the ashes of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. After the 1893 Fair, most of the Fair structures were burned or torn down, but the garden and the Phoenix Pavilion remained intact. Japanese builders on site constructing the pavilion
The Chicago Futabakai Japanese School Saturday school was first established by the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Chicago in May 1966. It opened in a Baptist church in Chicago's North Side with three teachers and 50 students. [4] It was the first Japanese school in the Midwestern United States. [5]
Ichiro Suzuki is a first-ballot Hall of Famer.. That has long been the assumption among baseball fans regarding the Japanese outfielder who played the majority of his 19-year MLB career with the ...
Jitsuo Morikawa (1912 – July 20, 1987), was a Japanese-American Baptist pastor and denominational leader. He was a pastor at the First Baptist Church in Chicago and interim senior minister of Riverside Church in Manhattan, and an executive at American Baptist Churches USA.
Ken Eto (衛藤 健 Etō Ken; October 19, 1919 – January 23, 2004), also known as Tokyo Joe and "The Jap", was an American mobster with the Chicago Outfit and eventually an FBI informant who ran Asian gambling operations for the organization.