Japanese Friendship Garden & Museum

This guide to the Japanese Friendship Garden in San Diego's Balboa Park starts with Moto Asakawa, whose family ran a teahouse and koi pond here from 1914 until the early 1940s, when it was dismantled as the United States went to war with Japan and Japanese American families nearby were forced from their homes. You'll hear how the site sat empty for over a decade before a group of citizens and San Diego's sister-city tie to Yokohama began pulling a new garden together, stone lantern by stone lantern. Listen beside the koi pond and think about who was counting the fish here decades before you.