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Suh compared Bass to former Mayor Tom Bradley who pronounced the model ship on permanent display after it was given to the city in 1982, and had not removed the artifacts when the city hosted the Olympics in 1984.
“Why couldn't you ask somebody?” Endo said. “The Japanese community is right there. Little Tokyo is two blocks away .” James An, president of the Korean American Federation of Los Angeles, said the city was facing more pressing issues, such as homelessness and public safety. And the more he thought about it, he liked the idea of moving the artifacts to the convention center, which aside from housing crowds for big events like the annual Anime Expo will
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