How multigenerational mochi shops on the West Coast persevere through decades of change
forced by the U.S. government to leave their homes and businesses during World War II for remote prison camps across the country. During internment, her grandparents rented out their business and the building to Chinese neighbors, thus avoiding the loss of property that befell many others.
Ikeda’s family wasn’t alone in weathering attacks on the Japanese community and its businesses. In San Francisco alone there were “three, now four, waves of forced removal: exclusion laws of the Victorian era, World War II incarceration, redevelopment of the 1960s, and the hyper-gentrification of the 2010s,” Kimura points out.
“Having a manju shop takes a lot of work, and time. It has to come from the heart, really,” Ikeda says. “I tell my kids, if something happens to me and I die, forget my funeral, just make sure you get the customers’ orders filled,” she laughs. “I know it’s morbid, but I don’t want to ruin their holidays.”
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