Kawakami Building
When folks came back from the internment camps many of them were helped a lot by a local businessman, Torahiko Kawakami. He worked through the Buddhist Church hostel to resettle people and to get them back on their feet. He became known as Japantown’s “Ombudsman.”
Wright Kawakami
Marker is on Jackson Street east of North 5th Street, on the right when traveling east.
Courtesy hmdb.org
