Wander around downtown Portland now, and it's hard to see how this stretch of blocks just west of the Willamette River was ...

That effectively gutted Portland’s Japantown. “This is a population that was forcibly displaced from this area,” said Mark Takiguchi, with the Japanese American Museum of Oregon.

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) – Assemblyman Phil Ting (D-San Francisco) announced Tuesday that the state will be providing an additional $6 million in funding for the redesign of Japantown’s Peace Plaza.