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The Merchant Street building was \"known for its \"Renaissance-style 'triumphal arch' entrance on a cartouche-topped canter wall. Pilasters climb to the garland-ornamented porthole windows and an elaborately decorated overhanging cornice.\"\n <sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-ftnt_ref2_2-0\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-ftnt_ref2-2\">\n [2]\n </a>\n </sup>\n For many years, the bank served as an important financial institution for Japanese in Hawai'i until the outbreak of World War II when Governor Joseph B. Poindexter closed it and other Japanese banks. By 1941, nearly $3 million was deposited in the Yokohama Specie Bank, $2.8 million in the Pacific Bank, and more than $2 million in the Sumitomo Bank.\n <sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-ftnt_ref3_3-0\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-ftnt_ref3-3\">\n [3]\n </a>\n </sup>\n </p>\n <p>\n At the outbreak of World War II, the U.S. Army took over the building, interned bank officials, and turned it into the Honolulu Military Police Station. In February 1942, the U.S. Department of the Treasury began to liquidate the three banks' assets, including their deposits. Eventually, the government returned the assets of depositors who were U.S. citizens or deemed non-enemy aliens, but many\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Issei/\" title=\"Issei\">\n Issei\n </a>\n were denied the return of their assets until 1949. Eighteen years later the U.S. government agreed to pay interest on impounded funds but the bank never reopened. In 1954, the U.S. Department of Justice, through its Alien Property Custodian, sold the building, and since then it has had a number of tenants. For many years it was formerly the business offices of\n <i>\n Honolulu Magazine\n </i>\n that was once the\n <i>\n Paradise of the Pacific\n </i>\n , a magazine King Kalākaua commissioned under royal charter. It has also served as a day care and preschool in recent years.\n <sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-ftnt_ref4_4-0\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-ftnt_ref4-4\">\n [4]\n </a>\n </sup>\n The Yokohama Specie Bank building currently comprises part of the Merchant Street Historic District in Honolulu, Hawai‘i as part of the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.\n <sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-ftnt_ref5_5-0\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-ftnt_ref5-5\">\n [5]\n </a>\n </sup>\n </p>\n <div id=\"authorByline\">\n <b>\n Authored by\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Kelli_Y._Nakamura/\" title=\"Kelli Y. Nakamura\">\n Kelli Y. Nakamura\n </a>\n , University of Hawai'i\n </b>\n </div>\n <div id=\"citationAuthor\" style=\"display:none;\">\n Nakamura, Kelli\n </div>\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"Footnotes\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Footnotes\">\n Footnotes\n </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <div class=\"reflist\" style=\"list-style-type: decimal;\">\n <div class=\"mw-references-wrap\">\n <ol class=\"references\">\n <li id=\"cite_note-ftnt_ref1-1\">\n <span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-ftnt_ref1_1-0\">\n ↑\n </a>\n </span>\n <span class=\"reference-text\">\n \"New Yokohama Specie Bank Building,\"\n <i>\n Paradise of the Pacific\n </i>\n , Apr. 1, 1910, 10-15.\n </span>\n </li>\n <li id=\"cite_note-ftnt_ref2-2\">\n <span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-ftnt_ref2_2-0\">\n ↑\n </a>\n </span>\n <span class=\"reference-text\">\n Frank S. Haines, ed.,\n <i>\n Architecture in Hawaii: A Chronological Survey\n </i>\n (Honolulu: Mutual Publishing, 2008), 41.\n </span>\n </li>\n <li id=\"cite_note-ftnt_ref3-3\">\n <span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-ftnt_ref3_3-0\">\n ↑\n </a>\n </span>\n <span class=\"reference-text\">\n Yukiko Kimura,\n <i>\n Issei: Japanese Immigrants in Hawaii\n </i>\n (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1988), 176.\n </span>\n </li>\n <li id=\"cite_note-ftnt_ref4-4\">\n <span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-ftnt_ref4_4-0\">\n ↑\n </a>\n </span>\n <span class=\"reference-text\">\n A. Kam Napier, \"Our Town: Yokohama Specie Bank Building,\"\n <i>\n Honolulu\n </i>\n , Aug. 1, 2004, accessed on May 26, 2016 at\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://www.honolulumagazine.com/Honolulu-Magazine/August-2004/Our-Town-Yokohama-Specie-Bank-Building/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n http://www.honolulumagazine.com/Honolulu-Magazine/August-2004/Our-Town-Yokohama-Specie-Bank-Building/\n </a>\n .\n </span>\n </li>\n <li id=\"cite_note-ftnt_ref5-5\">\n <span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-ftnt_ref5_5-0\">\n ↑\n </a>\n </span>\n <span class=\"reference-text\">\n National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form for the Merchant Street Historical District, 1973, accessed on May 27, 2016 at\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://focus.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/nrhp/text/73000661.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n http://focus.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/nrhp/text/73000661.pdf\n </a>\n .\n </span>\n </li>\n </ol>\n </div>\n </div>\n <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20230521153726\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.015 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.020 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 219/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 2433/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 393/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 5/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 2345/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00% 15.748 1 -total\n 18.76% 2.955 1 Template:Reflist\n 11.73% 1.848 1 Template:Databox-Camps\n 8.58% 1.351 1 Template:AuthorByline\n 8.46% 1.333 1 Template:Published\n-->\n <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:3642-0!canonical and timestamp 20230521153726 and revision id 26765\n -->\n </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"toplink\">\n <a href=\"#top\">\n <i class=\"icon-chevron-up\">\n </i>\n Top\n </a>\n</div>", "categories": [ "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/categories/Camps/?format=api" ], "sources": [], "coordinates": {}, "authors": [ "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/authors/Kelli%20Y.%20Nakamura/?format=api" ], "ddr_topic_terms": [], "prev_page": "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/articles/Yayoi%20Ailene%20Shibata/?format=api", "next_page": "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/articles/Yonsei/?format=api" }