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K. Nakano Co. Store

Isleton, California
· Established 1922 · Closed 1942
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Kumataro and Rika Nakano owned this dry goods store in Isleton's thriving Japantown. The store closed in 1942 when Executive Order 9066 mandated the incarceration of 110,000 Japanese on the West Coast in isolated internment camps. Most were American citizens.
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