>From "Nuestro Pueblo - Los Angeles, City of Romance" Copyright 1940, by Charles H. Owens and Joseph F. Seewerker THE LITTLE JAPANESE DRUGSTORE Sandwiched between two taller, wider buildings at 314 East First Street is the smallest drugstore in Los Angeles. The Nippon Pharmacy owns another distinction: Shiro Nakamura, owner, staff, is the first Japanese to be licensed as pharmacist in California. Is this the smallest drugstore in the United States? In California? 'That I cannot say,' Mr. Nakamura answers. 'It is ten feet wide and sixty feet deep. I have operated the store since 1910. I graduated from the University of Southern California, the first Japanese pharmacist to receive a license.' Business is not so good as it was twenty years ago, he admits pleasantly. But it is his life, which is rounded by wife and dog but - unfortunately - no children. Which are the most agreeable as customers, Americans, Japanese, Chinese? 'I have lived in Los Angeles since 1901. It is a pleasant place to live. My store stands on what was an alley of the older city. There was a bakery next door. The ovens were in the back yard. Then the alley was closed and the property-owner built my little store.' Will Americans and Japanese ever become really friendly? 'A store ten feet wide IS a small store.'