Leaving the Lot

My view (distorted by nature) of the buses leaving before me going on on their morning runs. The building I view was once a Larry's Market, then a Joe's sporting goods, now empty but soon to be a Uwajimaya store---it was a tremendous cultural addition to our seattle area . It brought to mind instantly this morning the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

from wikepedia-

Uwajimaya was founded in 1928 by Fujimatsu Moriguchi of Yawatahama, Japan, in Tacoma, Washington, where he sold fishcakes and other goods from his truck to Japanese farmers, loggers and fishermen at work sites.[1] Moriguchi named his company Uwajima-ya after the town of Uwajima (Ehime Prefecture), where he first entered the business (ya (?) is the Japanese word for "store").[2]

As part of the internment of Japanese Americans following the entry of the United States into World War II, Moriguchi and his family were sent to the Tule Lake Internment Camp in 1942. Upon their release, they moved to Seattle and set up shop on S. Main Street in the International District.