Little Tokyo

Four culinary stars will create amazing meals and memories at the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center.

Sanitation workers began breaking down the encampment Thursday morning, drawing protest from homeless advocacy groups that say the city’s solutions don’t help long-term. Annette Arreola reports for Today in LA on Friday, March 18, 2022.

Efforts to relocate those living at a homeless encampment are underway in Little Tokyo. Now dozens of people are looking for a new place to live. John Cádiz Klemack reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on March 17, 2022.

A massive homeless encampment sweep occurred in Little Tokyo but activists say this is not providing any solutions.

The City of Los Angeles is removing a homeless encampment in the Toriumi Plaza area of Little Tokyo, prompting backlash from local homeless advocacy groups.

City officials say they’ve done plenty of outreach in the area leading up to the cleanup, transferring over 50 people from the street into shelters. Protestors are voicing opposition to the cleanup plan. Annette Arreola reports for Today in LA on Thursday, March 17, 2022. 

The beloved figure will call upon Japanese Village Plaza the weekend before Christmas.

Dana Point Harbor, Huntington Harbour, and Marina del Rey will be all aglitter as gussied-up vessels take to the waves.

The beloved happening, which includes a trio of atmospheric events, will celebrate its 5th anniversary in 2021.

Our city’s ‘Largest Japanese Culinary Experience’ returns over three flavorful July weekends with a Shop, Hop, and Pop theme.

The newspaper that was founded in 1903, Rafu Shimpo, still serves Southern California’s Japanese American community today, and is now a treasure trove of historic information.

Rafu Shimpo, a historic newspaper in Little Tokyo, has given news to the Japanese American community since 1903. Kim Baldonado reports for NBC4 on Monday, May 24, 2021.

Surveillance video caught a man jumping the security fences at the Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple on Thursday night, smashing a 12-foot-high glass window with a rock, yanking a pair of metallic lanterns off their concrete bases and lighting two wooden lantern stands on fire, the temple’s head priest told the Los Angeles Times.

The popular foodie event will happen every weekend, virtually, over four flavorful weeks.

As offices have shut down, Little Tokyo has struggled to attract regular business. Beverly White reported on NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on Monday, March 23, 2020.