In the 1930s the tiny, man-made Terminal Island in San Pedro was home to 3,000 Japanese American fishermen and their families. The island bustled with activity. The men brought in hauls of sardines ...

More than a decade ago, when Geraldine Knatz was the director for the Port of Los Angeles, she visited Terminal Island with Minoru “Min” Tonai, a community activist who had grown up in what was once a ...

As executive director of the Port of Los Angeles in 2011, Geraldine Knatz went with harbor commissioners on an unexpected field trip: They joined Min Tonai, an elder statesman in L.A.’s Japanese ...

Hundreds gathered in San Pedro on Friday evening, June 27, to protest against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s apparent use of Terminal Island as a staging area for its operations across Los ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is using a portion of Terminal Island to stage raids in the South Bay and across Los Angeles County, according to various local community groups and ...

From the turn of the 20th century to the early 1940s, a human-made island in San Pedro Bay held a flourishing Japanese American fishing village that helped develop Southern California’s mighty seafood ...

The only two surviving buildings from Terminal Island’s days as a thriving Japanese American fishing village in the early 1900s have been placed on the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s 2025 ...