Whether you're attending Delicious Little Tokyo in the springtime, admiring colorful tanabata during Nisei Week, or chatting with Shogun Santa in December, you're soaking up the cultural cool that is ...

Little Tokyo, considered by many outsiders only a destination for food and festivals, is also becoming a hot place to call home. The downtown housing boom has brought upscale condos, which are ...

The Little Tokyo community is calling for a change as more and more legacy Japanese businesses are closing down. "It's almost like you're losing a relative," Kenji Suzuki, who owns Suehiro, said.

On a recent Thursday afternoon in LA’s Little Tokyo, people were queuing up out the door for boxes of beautiful house-made mochi at Fugetsu-Do. Nearby Japanese Village Plaza buzzed with folks enjoying ...

LITTLE TOKYO, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Little Tokyo is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Los Angeles, but the number of legacy restaurants that have been there for more than 50 years is getting smaller.

Up a narrow stairway, hidden above the street bustle of Little Tokyo, lies a largely unexplored corner of this popular Los Angeles tourist district. That is where Dane Ishibashi, surrounded by ...

Little Tokyo’s deliciously rich food heritage will be celebrated with a one-day festival that puts the spotlight on the 140-year-old neighborhoods’ iconic restaurants. The Delicious Little Tokyo ...

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Robert Sietsema is the former Eater NY senior critic with more than 35 years of experience covering dining in New York City. Centered on the corner of Stuyvesant and East 9th, where the streets form a ...

Take a stroll down 1st Street in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo, and it’s not difficult to spot the signs of gentrification. Brand-new luxury condos line block after block, entire streets have been ...

Fugetsu-Do has been selling mochi and other Japanese sweets in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo neighborhood since 1903. Like many other longtime Japanese businesses, the shop has survived the incarceration ...