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NORTH AMERICA Japantowns were created because of the widespread immigration of Japanese to America in the Meiji Period ( 1868 - 1912 ). At that time, many Japanese were poor, and thought they would have a better life in the United States . Slowly they began to make small communities all across the US and some parts of Canada . At one time, there were 43 different Japantowns in California , ranging from several square blocks of Little Tokyo in Los Angeles, to one in the small farming community of Marysville in Yuba County . Besides typical businesses, these communities usually had Japanese language schools for the immigrant's children, Buddhist and Christian churches, and sometimes Japanese hospitals. After the World War II Internment of the Japanese, most of those communities have declined or disappeared. There are currently three recognized Japantowns left in the United States, which are facing issues such as commercialization, reconstruction, and dwindling Japanese populations. Official Japantowns
Concentrated and historical Japanese populations
OUTSIDE NORTH AMERICA
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