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Suehiro Cafe's restaurant storefront is captured from angle. Most prominent is a red awning trimmed in white with Suehiro Cafe printed on it. Window underneath shows displays some of Suehiro's dishes, empty sake bottles and a Maneki Neko There's red-and-white tile under the window. Restaurant's front door is to the left.

Suehiro Cafe has thrived for over 50 years, but will it survive gentrification brought on by metro expansion?

by Phoenix Tso 06/07/202307/12/2023

Little Tokyo is one of LA’s older neighborhoods and has been especially resilient as a center of Japanese American culture through multiple periods of displacement. Now the neighborhood faces gentrification due to its prime spot as Metro expands, and Japanese American legacy businesses might not survive.