Japantown

Longtime San Jose Japantown restaurant Banana Crepe closed its doors for good Saturday after the already for sale business lost all prospective buyers in light of the coronavirus. Marianne Favro reports.

Asian Pacific America: Films of Remembrance is an annual showcase of films commemorating the Japanese American internment during the second world war and the showcase is making it’s San Jose Japantown debut.

The 2019 International Taiko Festival is celebrating the last three remaining Japantowns in the country and will feature Grandmaster Seiichi Tanaka and San Francisco Taiko Dojo. The festival will include a collaboration by San Francisco Taiko Dojo, Kinnara Taiko, and San Jose Taiko. Special guests from Japan, Yasuhide Tanaka (from Wako Daiko) and Takara Otsuka Taiko Ensemble, will be in…

A rash of apparent arson fires has some San Jose neighborhood groups around the downtown area scared and upset.

A rash of apparent arson fires have some San Jose neighborhood groups around the downtown area scared and upset. Robert Handa reports.

The latest in a string of dognapping incidents has San Francisco Police looking for a man suspected of stealing two puppies on Wednesday from a woman who had advertised them for sale online.

Officers have arrested a man accused of stealing a Golden Retriever earlier this month from outside a storefront in San Francisco’s Japantown, police said Thursday.

Officers have arrested a man accused of stealing a Golden Retriever earlier this month from outside a storefront in San Francisco’s Japantown, police said Thursday.

A San Francisco woman spent the weekend searching for her dog after a stranger appeared to take it.

A San Francisco woman’s missing dog, presumed stolen, was found safe late Sunday night after a stranger appeared to walk away with it in the city’s Japantown district.

San Jose’s Japantown and San Francisco’s North Beach were named two of the friendliest neighborhoods in the nation by NatGeo Travel.

With train horns blaring at 2 a.m., families in a second San Jose neighborhood are outraged that the noise is waking them up in the middle of the night.

With train horns blaring at 2 a.m., families in a second San Jose neighborhood are outraged that the noise is waking them up in the middle of the night. Marianne Favro reports.

The owners of the Tokyo Fish Market in Berkeley say the people seen in this video above stole $300 worth of pricey Japanese Wagyu beef from their store shelves.

berkeley beef theft

When you walk into Jackie’s Place, the aroma of fried chicken, mac and cheese and baked potatoes wafts through the air and you know instantly you are in soul food heaven.

Meet Jackie Jackson, owner of the only soul food restaurant in the South Bay: Jackie’s Place.

Whether you drive or ride, the way you get around downtown San Jose is about to change. New, safer bike lanes are on the way, with the city spending big to try to cut down on cycling fatalities and clean the air.

Nichi Bei Bussan, a gift shop in Japantown, has withstood the test of time after witnessing the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906 and the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.