Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nobuharu Hamakawa, left, and Hidetoshi Shibao live in a boardinghouse on North Virgil Avenue. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times ...

For nearly a century, Japanese immigrants have lived in the boardinghouse in East Hollywood. In the house’s heyday, about 30 men left each day for jobs as gardeners or laborers, returning for communal ...