The sign at the northeast corner of 1st and San Pedro streets in downtown Los Angeles is deceiving. The pink and blue neon advertises a real estate agency, but swing open the glass door and you ...

Photo: AFP A 47-year-old Iowa-raised designer might seem like an unlikely candidate for overnight success in Japan, but the country's long-running love affair with classic American style has ...

We'll wait. If you've never been to the Yokohama show, it is in its 25th year, and it is all the Japanese Americana culture you can imagine tightly packed into a single day in early December.

NAHA, Japan — On a dark street behind the T-shirt ... A&W says it opened its first Okinawan store in 1963. Some of Okinawa’s Americana is a recent imitation. At the military surplus stores ...

It has also made the exchange of Americana a two-way street: Earlier this year, Osaka-based Suntory, a Japanese conglomerate best known for its whiskey holdings, announced that it was buying Beam ...

or "Japan's kitchen," or a seasoned traveler looking for something new, this loud and thriving neighborhood is an eccentric slice of Americana with a distinctly Japanese twist. Amerikamura should ...