Kouraku in Little Tokyo opened in 1976. In 2020, they've joined social media to broadcast their message: We're still here, and we need your help to keep going
opened on East 2nd Street in Little Tokyo, Gerald Ford was president. Nadia Comaneci scored seven perfect 10s at the Montreal Olympic Games and Patty Hearst was sentenced to prison for bank robbery. Social media and online food ordering were decades away.
Lochridge, a Japanese American who split her time growing up between Japan and the U.S., has worked full-time in small business assistance since 2018, focusing primarily on native Japanese-speaking populations in places like Little Tokyo, Gardena and Sawtelle. With two entrepreneur parents, Lochridge describes herself as naturally passionate about supporting small businesses. The last few weeks, however, have brought a new urgency and intensity to her work.
The neighborhood’s long history and cherished legacy businesses are what make it special — Suehiro and Kouraku, both open since the 1970s; Fugetsu-Do bakery, which is 117 years old. Many residents and business owners are not native English speakers. And, like many minority enclaves, it’s a somewhat insular place.
For some legacy restaurant owners, this was an unprecedented, somewhat scary step. But it was vital in establishing a lifeline to its customers and to the community. “At first, it was just my chef and myself on our own, completely alone,” Yamauchi said. “I was lost trying to figure out what we should do, and at that moment Mariko arrived.”
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