This story is a bit old, but betting you never saw this before...

[AsahinaKimi]

SANDRA TANAMACHI’S STRUGGLE TO REMOVE “JAP” FROM TEXAS STREET SIGN.



Lake Jackson, Texas. One sunny day in 1992, Sandra Tanamachi, departed her home in Beaumont, Texas, with her husband and 18 year old son to have lunch at a popular seafood restaurant in a nearby town of Fannett, located some 80 miles east of Houston. When they arrived at the Boondocks Restaurant, they found it was on a street named "Jap Road." Her son, Tim, refused to eat in a restaurant located on a street with that name and Tanamachi and her husband and son drove home with a “cloud of darkness over us.” Then and there, Tanamachi decided she would undertake the effort to get the derisive street sign removed. Her struggle began at that point and would culminate 12 years later on July 19, 2004, when the Jefferson County commissioners voted to remove the Jap Road sign.

continues here:
http://www.geocities.com/thomas_kuwahara/JAVA.htm

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Bravo to her for such a heroic effort..and to those who would
take a stand to help her remove such a sign.

[Whoa_Nelly]

1. And it was renamed

as Moore Ranch Road, along with many years of effort since 1993

(found about 3/4 down on the page)
http://www.discovernikkei.org/wiki/index.php/United_States


Controversy over street names: "Jap Road" and "Jap Lane"

Controversy arose in 1993 over the use of the term "Jap" in connection with various roads in Texas: "Jap Road" near Fannett, in unincorporated Jefferson County (eventually renamed "Boondocks Road"); "Jap Road" near Orchard, in Fort Bend County (eventually renamed "Moore Ranch Road"); and "Jap Lane" in Vidor, Orange County (segments renamed "Duncanwoods Lane," "Japanese Lane," and "Cajun Way" respectively). Efforts to have the names changed eventually involved the Japanese American Citizens League, the Japanese American Veterans Association, and the Anti-Defamation League.

http://www.discovernikkei.org/wiki/index.php/United_States

Several PDF links follow the entry found at the above link

[Whoa_Nelly]

2. delete-DU bug glitch double post

[Maeve]

3. So when will Oklahoma change the name of Lake Jap Beaver? eom

[LeftinOH]

4. I'd heard of it before.. they could have simply renamed it "Japan Road"...

thus maintaining a reference to the Japanese farmer after whom the road was supposedly named (albeit clumsily). It would also have saved residents and businesses from completely changing signs and checkbooks.