Several Japanese Americans stand outside the Yokohama Specie Bank (Yokohama Sho¯kin Ginko¯) located at 120 South San Pedro Street in Little Tokyo after hearing President Roosevelt's order of freezing all Japanese assets in the United States. After the war, Yokohama Specie Bank became The Bank Of Tokyo, Ltd. in 1947, and in 1953 it established a San Francisco subsidiary called The Bank of Tokyo California (BOTC). Photo dated July 26, 1941.
Yokohama Shokin Ginko Bank buildings--California--Little Tokyo (Los Angeles) Men--California--Los Angeles Bank accounts--California--Los Angeles World War, 1939-1945 Japanese Americans Lost Architecture Little Tokyo (Los Angeles, Calif.) Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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