Japanese bank in U.S., built for one minority, is pressed to aid others.

Discusses the functioning of Japanese-owned businesses in the United States, and the distrust between the Japanese and other ethnic communities. Effort by Craig Samuels, the only black branch manager at Sumitomo Bank of California, to expand the bank's African-American clientele; Percentage of black employees at Japanese-controlled businesses in the United States; Percentage of blacks in 1995 at Sumitomo Bank of California.