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Read Part 1 >> The boiling point came in February 1942 during meetings of the Bay Region Council for Unity (BRCU). Omura urged this progressive Nisei …
It galled many long-standing Japanese American Citizen League (JACL) members who read the “Millennium New Year’s Edition” of the Pacific Citizen (PC), the League’s newspaper, …
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Barefoot Journalism. A three-headed Japanese monster. Youth struggling to define themselves in a society still healing itself yet turning its judgmental eyes upon victims. What …
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Read Part 1 >>4) Going Online: On that note, resources must be diverted into developing the online business, including building the requisite online infrastructure and …
The last few years have been tough for newspapers in general and Japanese American newspapers in particular. Newspaper readership overall has been in decline for …
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Read Part 2 >>>For almost a decade there were no Japanese-language newspapers circulating in Peru until July 1st 1950, when Peru Shimpo (Recent News from …
Read Part 1 >>>Eight years later, on January 1,1929, another newspaper was founded, Perú Nichi Nichi Shimbun (Daily News of Peru), with the goal of …
The need to obtain information about what was happening in Japan and, at the same time, the will to share it with the Japanese immigrants, …
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Read Part 2 >> While Higa and Kaneshiro’s Uchinanchu journalism is aimed at Uchinanchu outside of Okinawa, Sadao Tome writes stories to send a message to …
Read Part 1 >>Higa is not the earliest pioneer of Uchinanchu journalism in America. That would probably be Takeo Kaneshiro, a journalist based in Los …
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