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.

A San Francisco native is helping keep alive the city's historic Japantown, one of only three left in the U.S. Growing up, Grace Horikiri came to Japantown to learn the Japanese language ...