The Japanese American National Museum, located in the Little Tokyo area near downtown Los Angeles, California, is devoted to preserving the history and culture of Japanese-Americans. The museum is home to a moving image archive, which contains over 100,000 feet of 16mm and 8mm home movies of Japanese-Americans from the 1920s to the 1950s. The musuem also contains artifacts, textiles, art, photographs, and oral histories of Japanese Americans. The New Otani Hotel is the tallest hotel in the Little Tokyo area. ... The City of Los Angeles (from Spanish; Los Ãngeles) is the second-largest city in the United States in terms of population, as well as one of the worlds most important economic, cultural, and entertainment centers. ... Serving from 1999 to 2003, Army General Eric Shinseki of Hawaii became the first Asian American military chief of staff. ... Sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or primarily in North America and in Australia as the Roaring Twenties . In Europe it is sometimes refered to as the Golden Twenties. ... // Events and trends This map shows two essential global spheres during the Cold War in 1959. ... Oral history is an account of something passed down by word of mouth from one generation to another. ...