so now, we have this koban here. there's an office here for the police to be able to make the reports here. so they have the black and white parked out here, so they have a police presence in little tokyo. today, this is a visitor center. they have literature, and we have japanese speaking volunteers that helped the tourists here in southern california. this building here is very interesting. i didn't know it at the time, but my boy scout buddy owned this building when he was three years old. this is kawasaki building. why did he have this building when he was three years old? well, it was to circumvent the law. 1913, california passed the alien land law, which stated that if you're an [inaudible] to citizen ineligible to citizenship, then you can't own property in california. so to circumvent the law, the kawasaki family put this into his japanese american born citizen, so although he was only three years old, to circumvent the law, he couldn't put it in his own name, because the japanese alien, so they put it into

koban in japan are police substations. why should we have a police substation here on the police headquarters across the street well in the early 1960s and 70s little tokens start to deteriorate we had lots of people handling around the little first street breaking into the cars so our tourists start to die down. so now we have this coban here. there's office here for the police to be able to make the reports here. so they have black and white parked out here. so i have a police presence and little tokyo today. this is a visitor center you have literature here and we have japanese speaking volunteers that helped the tourists here in southern, california. this building here is very interesting. i didn't know it at that time, but my boy scout buddy owned this building when he was three years old. this is the kawasaki building. why did he have this building when he was three years old? well, it was the circumvent the law 1913 california passed the alien land law, which stated that if you're in asable to citizenship then you c