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Soko Hardware in SF celebrates 100 years in business

  • Sep 28, 2025
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How SF's Japanese-owned businesses are impacted by matcha shortage

  • Aug 28, 2025
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San Jose Obon Festival showcases community dance

  • Jul 10, 2025
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SF Cherry Blossom Festival brings thousands to Japantown

  • Apr 14, 2025

SF's Fillmore Safeway to close in February after 40 years

  • Dec 11, 2024

SF Japantown community seeks funding to save historic school

  • Mar 2, 2024

Safeway delays closure of SF Fillmore location until Jan. 2025

  • Jan 23, 2024

Push to stop SF Safeway from closing intensifies

  • Jan 10, 2024

Latest Videos

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Bay Area Day of Remembrance pays tribute to Japanese American history

  • Feb 16
2:08

Soko Hardware in SF's Japantown celebrates 100 years in business

  • Sep 28, 2025
2:22

How SF's Japanese-owned businesses are impacted by matcha shortage

  • Aug 28, 2025
3:46

San Jose Obon Festival showcases community dance

  • Jul 11, 2025
3:24

CULTURE KEEPER: Community leader preserves, strengthens San Jose's Japantown

  • Jun 6, 2025
2:55

SF Cherry Blossom Festival brings thousands to Japantown

  • Apr 14, 2025
6:50

SF Japantown community seeks funding to save historic school

  • Mar 2, 2024
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Push to stop SF Safeway from closing intensifies

  • Jan 10, 2024

Latest Stories

Post COVID-19 pandemic data shows recovery disparities between SF neighborhoods

While neighborhoods like Japantown and Seacliff are thriving more than ever, other San Francisco neighborhoods are struggling to reach those pre-pandemic sales numbers. Here's what data shows.

  • Jan 9, 2024
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Community remembers San Francisco security guard killed trying to protect Japantown mall

Family members say Gavin Boston spent seven minutes inside the mall talking with a teen before escorting him outside where at least one shot was fired. Candles are still lit in his memory and a note that says, 'Gavin you saved our community! Rest in peace.'

  • Feb 1, 2023

Security guard shot, killed in San Francisco's Japantown; 2 teens arrested, police say

Investigators say the security guard was shot outside of the mall. Surveillance images show the moments before the shooting took place, as the guard is seen escorting one of the teens out of the mall. The second teen is not shown in these photos.

  • Jan 6, 2023
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'Total violent assault': Vandal hacks down historic cherry blossom trees in San Francisco's Japantown

"No cherry blossoms to bloom this year," mourned the Japanese Cultural and Community Center online. The group says someone painstakingly destroyed each tree, branch by branch.

  • Jan 8, 2021

'Japantown for Justice' honors Black Lives Matter movement, Juneteenth during demonstration

'JAPANTOWN FOR JUSTICE': Members built a large black origami crane that says "Black Lives Matter" and "I Can't Breathe".

  • Jun 21, 2020