The History Walk is a 10 city block self-guided tour that includes 17 permanent interpretive signs highlighting points of historical and cultural significance of the Japanese American community.

1. What Happened Here (N 37° 47.120 W 122° 25.802)

   A = Third digit of the the year that Japan surrenders on September 2. In January, Japanese Americans begin returning to the West Coast. Tule Lake, the last Japanese American camp, closes in March 1946 and the camp for Japanese Latin Americans at Crystal City, Texas closes in February 1948.

2. Injustice & Honor (N 37° 47.125 W 122° 25.777)

   B = Third digit of the the year that the Japanese American community founded the Japanese Bilingual Bicultural Program (JBBP) in order to preserve its cultural and linguistic heritage through the public schools.

3. Uoki Sakai Market (N 37° 47.148 W 122° 25.740)

   Kitaichi Sakai arrived in San Francisco in the 1890s. Sakai’s customers relied on him for hard-to-find specialties and staples of the Japanese diet: daikon, ________, gobo, and impeccably fresh fish.

   C = Numeric translation of the first letter of the missing word.

4. Beginnings of Japantown in the Western Addition (N 37° 47.146 W 122° 25.784)

   After their home in Chinatown was destroyed in 1906, the Mizuhara family moved to Nihonjin-Machi and reopened their art repair shop.

   D = The third digit of their address on Sutter Street.

5. Benkyodo (N 37° 47.183 W 122° 25.803)

   E = Numeric translation of the first letter of Suyeichi Okamura son's name, whom he handed down his recipes and traditions.

6. Educating the Nisei (N 37° 47.191 W 122° 25.761)

   On April 5, ____, a group of West Coast Nisei leaders gathered in San Francisco to plan a national organization.

   F = Third digit in the missing year. (hint: caption located below a photo)

7. The Spirit of Nihonmachi (N 37° 47.250 W 122° 25.718)

   San Francisco’s Japanese Catholic community began in 1913 with the establishment of St. Francis Xavier Mission. In 1925, Fr. William Stoecke and Fr. John Zimmerman of the Society of the Divine Word were appointed to the church. They established Morning Star School at ____ Octavia Street and transformed the existing Victorian mansion at 1801 Octavia into an elegant missionstyle church with a distinctive Japanese entry and graceful green-glaze tile roof

   G = Fourth digit in the missing address on Octavia Street.

8. In the Name of National Security (N 37° 47.238 W 122° 25.838)

   There were no steps in front of the horse stalls assigned to my family, number 213_3. A swinging half-door divided our twenty-by nine-foot stall from the next

   H = Missing digit in the number assigned to the horse stalls.

9. Redevelopment to Redress (N 37° 47.151 W 122° 25.877)

   On October _, 1990, the first presidential apologies and redress payments were presented to former Japanese American internees.

   I = Missing digit in the date.

10. What You Leave Behind (N 37° 47.127 W 122° 25.818)

    In 198_, thematically expanding the Go For Broke exhibit, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington DC featured “A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the United States Constitution” to mark the bicentennial of the Constitution.

    J = Missing digit in the year.

N 37 AB.CDE W 122 FG.HIJ

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