In San Jose, a center of California’s housing crisis, one of the oldest and last remaining Japanese-owned farms in the state will be demolished to pave the way for urban housing.
San Jose is home to one of only three existing Japantowns in the country and the only one built on agricultural roots. But preservationists and community leaders are fighting to save one century-old farmhouse on the site that they say represents the towering contributions Japanese Americans made to the state’s agricultural history. For much of the 20th century, the city and its surrounding areas were mostly farmland where Japanese American families harvested fruits and vegetables.
His neighbor Edward Seely cared for the family farm during incarceration and returned it to him after the war. Though Sakauye died in 2005, the farm remains active: Another Japanese farming family, the Tsukudas, have been leasing and operating a fruit stand on the land for the past 40 years. “It’s important for my kids, my grandkids, to know the story of what happened to Japanese Americans during internment,” said Rosemary Kamei, the vice mayor of San Jose.
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