A man fights to preserve what remains of Salt Lake City’s erased Japantown.
What happens after the dream dies?
Raised in Salt Lake City’s lost Japantown, Paul Iwasaki still sees ghosts of the neighborhood that once was. Fifty years after the city destroyed Japantown, a new plan threatens what little remains. Paul fears that history will repeat itself and uses his voice to fight for a different outcome.
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PBS Digital Studios
Executive Producers
Stanley Nelson
Marcia Smith
Chloë Walters-Wallace
Producers
Romy Franks
Kelyn Ikegami
Hunter B. Phillips
Jared Jakins
Director of Photography
Robert Machoian
Music Arrangement
Logan Anderson
Colorist
J. Cody Baker
Featuring
Judge Paul F. Iwasaki
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