Could you read backwards Chinese? Mrs. Takaichi had to read backwards characters as she painstakingly set each piece of type to print Chinese lottery tickets. The late Dr. Tokio Ishikawa remembers 248 East Jackson Street (currently Banana Crepe) in the 1920s, when it was the location of the Peter M. Takaichi Printing Company and the Ishikawa Dry Goods Store. The building is probably the location of one of the earliest Japanese-operated businesses on Jackson Street, Hokubei & Company, which opened in 1906.