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The , in what was then Tacoma, Washington's Japantown, was one of 24 Japanese language schools that existed in Washington prior to World War II. ==History== The building was built in 1922 to replace a smaller building and accommodate a larger enrollment. It was designed by Frederick Heath of Heath, Gove and Bell.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.tacoma.uw.edu/japanese-language-school-memorial/history )〕 Because Washington had laws preventing aliens from owning land, the lot was paid for by a school corporation that was made up of three Americans, and two Issei Japanese Americans. Two lots were bought for a total cost of $1,600, and the building was built at a cost of $9,000. An addition to the building was added in 1926. The school taught classes on the English language, the Japanese language, and Japanese culture.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Historic American Buildings Survey - Nihon Go Gakko )〕 During World War II the building was used to gather Japanese residents during World War II, before sending them to internment camps.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= University to commemorate Japanese Language School ) 〕 The University of Washington bought the building in 1993 after it established a campus in Tacoma. By this point, the decades of vacancy had left the building quite dilapidated. The same year, the university had made a request to the Tacoma Landmarks Preservation Commission for permission to demolish the building and replace it with a commemorative garden, but failed to act on their approval. In 2001, the City of Tacoma told the university that the building was a safety hazard and the following year the Preservation Commission renewed their approval of the plan for demolition.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Fact Sheet: Japanese Language school likely to be leveled by winter )〕 The university received an estimate of $3 million to rehabilitate the building, and decided that the cost was not feasible.〔 Despite being listed on the National Register of Historic Places, as well as being a City of Tacoma Landmark,〔 the building was demolished in 2004 after having stood vacant since the 1940s. Prior to its demolishing, the school was one of only two Japanese language schools left, of around four dozen that existed on the West Coast of the United States and in Hawaii. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nihon Go Gakko (Tacoma)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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