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George Shima (1864 – March 27, 1926) was a Japanese American businessman in California who became the first Japanese American millionaire. [1] At one point, he produced about 85% of the state's potato crop, [ 2 ] which earned him the nickname "The Potato King".
Los Angeles prosecutors announced that they identified the actual sniper, but there was no move by the prosecutors to arrest the deadly sniper. [ 16 ] The legal battle to avoid getting extradited to California continued until late September when the Los Angeles Superior Court dropped the murder charges, due to prohibition of double jeopardy ...
Kazuo Nagano (永野 一男, Nagano Kazuo, August 1, 1952 – June 18, 1985) was a Japanese fraudster. He was chairman of Toyota Shoji [ ja ] (unrelated to the car manufacturing company ), a fraudulent gold investment company, which was responsible for swindling 3,855 people, mostly elderly, out of 12 billion yen .
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Kiuchi Sōgorō (木内 惣五郎), also known as Sakura Sōgorō (佐倉 惣五郎) (1605 – September 1653) was a legendary Japanese farmer whose real family name was Kiuchi. He is said to have appealed directly to the shōgun in 1652 when he was serving as a headman of one of the villages in the Sakura Domain .
Los Angeles City Councilmember Curren Price was charged in a pay-to-play scheme in 2023. Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Karen Bass speaking at the EBONY Power 100 Gala 2024 in November 2024 in ...
California History 73.1 (1994): 14–29. find a negative impact on Japanese farmers. Bunje, Emil. The Story of Japanese Farming in California (1957) Ferguson, Edwin E. "The California Alien Land Law and the Fourteenth Amendment." California Law Review 35 (1947): 61+. Ichioka, Yuji. "Japanese immigrant response to the 1920 California alien land ...