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Japantown's 1942 fate is horrific.

But it's also a story of perseverance. After being incarcerated & told not to return, citizens resurrected their community.

We profiled three families who came back, so Japantown could rise again 🎌✊

📸s: Lea Suzuki

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I learned so much editing this story, and I’m so proud of the team that brought it to life.

This was a true collaborative effort by Peter Hartlaub Nami Sumida John Blanchard @lea_suzuki Stephanie Zhu, each of whom was indispensable in telling this story.

Spend time with this by Peter Hartlaub, Nami Sumida, Lea Suzuki and many more talented San Francisco Chronicle journalists.

They spent a year understanding how the internment of Japanese people during WW2 impacted Japantown and how it’s still reverberating today.

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NEW PROJECT:

Mass incarceration devastated San Francisco's Japantown. For the first time, we know just how much

Tour de force of storytelling, data & visuals by a team headed by Peter Hartlaub Nami Sumida John Blanchard @lea_suzuki Stephanie Zhu

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For years I was haunted by images in our San Francisco Chronicle archive: a 1942 order exiled every resident of Japanese descent from S.F.

But conveying the magnitude seemed futile — until Nami Sumida unlocked key census data

Today we tell the story of Japantown ⬇️
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Mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII devastated SF's Japantown - what was once a rich, thriving neighborhood for Japanese Americans

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'Almost sacred': Giants fans outraged by removal of tiles they bought for loved ones & new plan for digital kiosk - old park across cove was dismantled in 2020 and new larger park mostly built at higher elevation, opens Friday for opener: sfchronicle.com/sports/giants/… via San Francisco Chronicle

Scoop: A tower once home to tech giants Uber & Square in #SanFrancisco 's Mid-Market is now being scooped up by the city. No recent real estate deals capture the current dynamics of the city's changing office market quite like this one.
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NEW: For years, #Oakland 's selling point for companies and residents, priced out of high-cost markets like #SanFrancisco , has been its affordability. But the price gap is closing amid plummeting values in the city.
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In 1992 the San Francisco Chronicle sent a reporter to pose as a student at an S.F. high school.

It was wild, revealing, contentious. The plot of 'Never Been Kissed' in real life.

I tracked down those involved (reporter, students, editors) and a new story emerged.

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Abortion pill showdown heads to the Supreme Court on Tuesday. The case could limit the use of mifepristone, the pill used in more than half of all U.S. abortions. Here’s what’s at stake for California: sfchronicle.com/politics/artic… via San Francisco Chronicle

Two late-season storms are forecast to impact the Golden State this week, raising the risk for flooding at the coast and multiple feet of snow in the Sierra Nevada.

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A crash that killed a family of four while they waited for a bus in West Portal has haunted the San Francisco neighborhood, and much of the city, ever since.

“It could have been anyone.” trib.al/jTsE4zj

There’s a push to let cars back on S.F.’s Market Street. It’s not a good idea sfchronicle.com/sf/article/mar… via San Francisco Chronicle by the great John King

Taking a brief pause from vacation to share that season announcement season continues with San Francisco Playhouse’s next lineup! sfchronicle.com/entertainment/…

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