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Item type: image Tags: japantowns newspapers portland s. ban portland, oregon 1915 Part of these collections: Nihonmachi: Portland's Japantown Uploaded by: Oregon Nikkei
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A page from the 1915 New Year’s edition of the Oregon News, a predecessor of the Oshu Nippo. In 1915, the newspaper was private, sent by the S. Ban company to all of its laborers working in the western states. Photo courtesy of Homer and Miki Yasui.
The Oshu Nippo was the primary Japanese language newspaper published in Portland, at 128 NW 2nd Avenue, in the Merchant Hotel building, now home to the Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center.
The paper was founded in 1909 by Toyoji Abe, and later published by Iwao Oyama from 1917 until December 7, 1941. He was arrested by the FBI on the afternoon of the attack on Pearl Harbor; the printing press was confiscated and never returned.
The paper was reestablished by Mr. Oyama after the war (August 23, 1946) as the Oregon Nippo or the Oregon Weekly, published from 136 NW 3rd Avenue in Japantown as a legal-sized, bilingual mimeograph. Issues were printed into the 1970s. Miss Kimi Tambara, who had served as the editor of the Minidoka Irrigator, was the English editor.
For more information, please contact the Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center at 503-224-1458, www.oregonnikkei.org, or email onlc@oregonnikkei.org.
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