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If there is an elder statesman on Jackson Street in the heart of San Jose's Japantown, it's hands down the Kogura Company gift shop. It's occupied the same storefront since 1934 -- where Kohei Kogura moved it from its original 1928 location a few blocks away.
Not only does the shop boast the title of oldest store in San Jose's Japantown -- it's considered the oldest to occupy its original location in any Japantown in the U.S. Unlike the days when it supplied appliances to the Japanese community, these days its shelves are stocked with colorful Japanese vases, dolls, sake sets and rice cookers.