Prior note continued:

...complete with maps and appropriate language signage for each. One of the streetcars, the most colorful one, prominently features Chinatown, Japantown, and Little Saigon.

In addition, the city later installed Chinese and Japanese language translations underneath the English names of neighborhood street signs. Little Saigon at first declined, but later changed its mind when it realized the importance of neighborhood branding through signage for tourism and marketing purposes. Neighborhood businesses and community organizations are already under pressure of rising crime, displacement, homogenization, Asian hate crimes and all the challenges development entails and need all the help possible in use of our neighborhood names to get away from being labeled “international” when we are Americans.