Jordan Trigg concedes he and his wife, Rina, should have seen the financial tidal wave caused by an ambitious expansion plan building in the distance. But by the time it started crashing over the couple — who owned four businesses in San Jose’s historic Japantown district — it was too late to do anything but try to survive, he said.

“We made some bad decisions. We could have made some better ones,” Jordan Trigg said Friday, two days after he closed Jtown Pizza Co., a vibrant eatery that had been in business for six years on North Sixth Street. On Friday night, his company, Dipsomania Inc., announced that another of its Japantown businesses, Spread Deli, would shut down after the close of business Sunday.

Trigg says he’s doing everything he can to keep the doors open at the other two — Ja

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