In the early 1900s, some of the first Japanese settlers in the Los Angeles Basin began leasing farmland, which was originally owned by the Sepulveda family, on the Palos Verdes Peninsula.

These Japanese settlers took advantage of the land's rich soil and expanded their operations. Over the next decades, they cultivated fruits and vegetables throughout what would become the South Bay.

As residential and industrial development swept through the area, farmland began to dwindle, but the influence of the Japanese did not.

In 1972, Japan-based Kubota Corp., a tractor and heavy equipment manufacturer, established its U.S. headquarters, Kubota Tractor Corp., in Torrance.

The Japanese, once ...

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