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This weekend finds us in Seattle's Japantown, at the Panama Hotel, which is more than just a place to get a room for the night. The Panama has been around for more than a century and is a national historic landmark. It was home to Japanese migrant workers and families who arrived in the United States at the turn of the century. It is now a place where locals can chat over tea and Japanese confections, and it literally comes with its own emotional baggage. Weekend America contributor David Weinberg went to Nihonmachi (the locals' name for Seattle's Japantown), and brought us this story for our summer travel series.
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