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Newspapers & Magazines

Argentina

Nikkei Argentino is a monthly online newspaper that provides articles about Japanese groups in Argentina. Spanish only.

Brazil

Available only in Japanese. "Nikkei shimbun" is a newspaper in Brazil, which started in 1998 in São Paulo. It covers news in Colonia (nikkei society) as well as the translation from Brazil, and Japan and world news. It often provides feature articles about memorial events in Nikkei society.
"Aliança Tsushin" is a journal to research history of Aliança and Comunidade Yuba and consider the relationship between Japan and Brazil. Japanese only.

Canada

Vancouver Shinpo is a weekly Japanese newspaper that has been in publication for over twenty five years, and is the oldest running Japanese community newspaper in Canada.

Paraguay

As the only Japanese newspaper in Paraguay, this provides domestic news related to business, politics, etc., as well as Nikkei community in Paraguay. Japanese only.

Peru

  • Peru Shimpo / ペルー新報
Spanish and Japanese newspaper.

United States

Article in tribute to The Southern Blue Page, a Depression-era weekly newspaper circulated in Southern California, and its role in creating a cohesive Nikkei community in the region.
Section II ("Other Voices: Hawaii's Ethnic Press") profiles Fred Kinzaburo Makino, founder in 1912 of the Hawaii Hochi. This project was researched and written by Dr. Tom Brislin , professor of Journalism at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
  • James Yoshinori Sakamoto (1903-1955) established Seattle's English language newspaper, the Japanese-American Courier, in 1928. He subsequently helped found the Japanese American Citizens League.
"This essay examines the sharply conflicting editorial positions of some of the smaller newspapers in the region: the <i>Seattle Argus, West Seattle Herald, Bainbridge Review, Northwest Enterprise, and Japanese American Courier."
Abstract: "After Pearl Harbor, as the public climate turned sour against the people of Japanese descent, the Roosevelt administration faced a difficult question of how to treat the Japanese 'enemy language' newspapers within its borders. While the military-led alarmist-exclusionist group of officials demanded to suppress them all, the civilian-led liberal-pragmatic group insisted to preserve and utilize them for national war policies. Their political tug-of-war ended in favor of the latter group, meaning that the Japanese-language press would be immune from total suppression or censorship throughout the war. Although those liberal officials once planned to make a special foreign language press control law, they eventually dropped it and decided to control the Japanese-language press by existing statutes. But this was not to say the Japanese-language newspapers enjoyed the full protection of press freedom. The mass evacuation policy forced all West Coast Japanese papers to close, leaving only a few in Utah and Colorado."
"... [T]he purpose of this research is to analyze how the New Republic, one of the most prominent liberal magazines of the nation, covered the Japanese mass exclusion and internment."
Abstract: This study examines how the United States government treated the Japanese "enemy language" press during World War II by focusing on the policy of the Office of Facts and Figures (OFF), a federal agency that took responsibility for the management and mobilization of the domestic foreign language press during the first six months after Pearl Harbor. The OFF took a distinctively liberal but realistic approach.
水野剛也による第二次大戦中の日系アメリカ人収容所における新聞検閲や邦字紙管理政策などに関する論文・文献リスト。
Takeya Mizuno has written extensively about the American Japanese language press in the context of World War II. His curriculum vitae lists his bibliography and conference presentations on this and related topics.
"NikkeiWest was established in 1992 for the estimated 120,000 (2000 census figures) English-speaking Japanese American community of Northern California. NikkeiWest was created so Nikkei readers can be informed of current events, news, sports, and articles of interest that are directly related to their Japanese American culture and heritage."
"Since its first edition rolled off the presses on May 18, 1946, the Nichi Bei Times has been dedicated to serving the Northern California Japanese American community."
"North American Post Publishing, Inc. publishes the largest and oldest Japanese-language newspaper in the Pacific Northwest, Hokubei Hochi (North American Post). It also publishes the Northwest Nikkei, a Japanese American community English-language Newspaper as part of the Saturday edition....As a community newspaper, the Northwest Nikkei publishes local and national news relevant to our readers with features on business and community leaders, art and cultural events, community history and social political and health issues."
Los Angeles Japanese Daily News.
"The Rafu Shimpo began in April 1903 as a simple news sheet posted on local bulletin boards and today is the nation's leading bilingual Japanese American daily newspaper, read by over 45,000 each day."

Newspaper Finding Aids

List of Japanese immigration-related resources (particularly Japanese newspapers) available in microform.
List of Japanese-language Nikkei newspapers published in North America, including Hawaii, with brief explanation.
日本語で発行されたハワイを含めた北米の日系新聞のリスト。簡単な説明つき。
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