Black plaque № 78199

Los Angeles, CA, United States

SEI FUJII 1882 – 1954 Sei Fujii was born in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan and arrived in Los Angeles in 1903. An early graduate of USC Law, he and colleague J. Marion Wright won a US Supreme Court ruling to build the Japanese Hospital in 1929. Sei Fujii also challenged and overturned the California Al

ien Land Law in 1952. He was the founding publisher of the Kashu Mainichi daily newspaper located at 339 E. 2nd Street. Because of his civic advocacy he was shot and nearly killed by gangsters on Nove

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