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  2. Terminal Island - Wikipedia

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    Terminal Island was a fishing village, located next to a United States Navy facility, which ultimately resulted in the Japanese Americans becoming fishermen. As a result of their occupation and location, they were accused of being spies for the Japanese army through the use of depth meters and fishing equipment, prior to the attack.

  3. San Pedro, Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    Until February 1942, San Pedro was home to a vibrant Japanese immigrant community of about 3,000 people who lived in what had been described as a "typical Japanese Fishing Village" on Terminal Island (East San Pedro). [31]

  4. List of films about the internment of Japanese Americans

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    Furusato: The Lost Village of Terminal Island [31] 2005 David Meltzer Gila River and Mama: The Ruth Mix Story [32] 2011 Claire Mix Guilty by Reason of Race [33] 1972 NBC: Heart Mountain: Three Years in an Internment Camp [34] 1994 Dianne Fukami Hidden Internment: The Art Shibayama Story [35] 2004 Casey Peek, Irum Shiekh

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  6. Japanese Americans - Wikipedia

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    In the early 1900s, Japanese Americans established fishing communities on Terminal Island and in San Diego. [47] By 1923, there were two thousand Japanese fishermen sailing out of Los Angeles Harbor. [48] By the 1930s, legislation was passed that attempted to limit Japanese fishermen. Still, areas such as San Francisco's Japantown managed to ...

  7. 100 Fishing Village Heritage Sites (Japan) - Wikipedia

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    The 100 Fishing Village Heritage Sites, more fully the 100 Select Fishing Industry Fishing Village Historical and Cultural Heritage Sites to be Preserved for the Future (未来に残したい漁業漁村の歴史文化財産百選), is an initiative of the National Association of Fisheries Infrastructure (全国漁港漁場協会) endorsed by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries ...

  8. Fishing village - Wikipedia

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    A fishing village is a village, usually located near a fishing ground, with an economy based on catching fish and harvesting seafood. The continents and islands around the world have coastlines totalling around 356,000 kilometres (221,000 mi). [ 1 ]

  9. List of fishing villages - Wikipedia

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    The main populated area of Chibu, Japan View of the Charaki fishing village in the island of Rhodes, Greece Covelong Beach, India, view from the south Ona is a traditional fishing village in Norway Pittenweem, Fife, Scotland Saint Malo, Louisiana as it appeared in Harper's Weekly in 1883. This is a list of fishing villages.