Naomi Hirahira, who is “a one-woman Japanese American history project,” is best known for a seven-book crime novel series. “She has also authored several nonfiction titles on Southern California Japanese-American history. Her newest Mas Arai mystery title and the final one of the series, Hiroshima Boy, was just published by Prospect Park Books in March 2018, and in April her latest nonfiction title, Life After Manzanar, was published by Heyday.” In this article, she takes a LARB reporter on a literary walking and driving tour of Los Angeles.