There is a population of Japanese Americans and Japanese expatriates in Greater Seattle, whose origins date back to the second half of the 19th century. Prior to World War II, Seattle's Japanese community had grown to become the second largest Nihonmachi on the West Coast of North America.
Japanese trade delegation arriving at Seattle's Smith Cove in 1909
Japanese Day parade in 1909 during the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition
A street in Seattle's Nihonmachi in 1909
Camp Harmony in Puyallup, 1942
Nihongo Gakko (Tacoma)
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The Nihon Go Gakko alternately, Nihon Gogakko, in what was then Tacoma, Washington's Japantown, was one of 24 Japanese language schools that existed in Washington prior to World War II.
Nihon Go Gakko before it was demolished