Witnessing the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima and the people there, and losing his younger brother and sister in the bombing, was the starting point for Kato Shinichi's later dedication to the peace movement. In his diary, which I introduced last time, about his …
On August 6, 1945, Shinichi Kato, who was the head of the news department at the Chugoku Shimbun newspaper, was on his way to work near Nishi-Hiroshima Station when he saw the flash of the atomic bomb and immediately headed to the Chugoku Shimbun headquarters in the city. He recorded …
On August 20, 1942, eight months after the outbreak of war between Japan and the United States, Shinichi Kato returned to Japan on a Japanese-American exchange ship and became a reporter for the Chugoku Shimbun newspaper in his hometown of Hiroshima. It is not known when or how he got …
Kato Shinichi did not leave a detailed record of what happened to him as a leading figure in the Japanese community as the editor-in-chief of a Japanese newspaper after the outbreak of war between Japan and the United States. He only wrote that "When war broke out between Japan and …
Last time, I briefly touched on the strike issue surrounding Rafu Nichibei, the Japanese newspaper in Los Angeles where Kato Shinichi worked as a reporter, but this point is written in more detail in the section "Publications by Japanese Americans in the United States" in the "Centennial History of Japanese …
Kato helped his father on the farm in central California, and when his father returned to Japan, he moved to Pasadena, near Los Angeles, to work in landscaping. However, he soon became a reporter for a Japanese newspaper, which marked the beginning of his long career in journalism. Japanese language …
Let's follow the footsteps of Shinichi Kato's father, Matsujiro, after he moved to the U.S. It is not clear which port in Japan Matsujiro left from in 1900, or where he landed in the U.S. In his profile written in "A Centennial History of Japanese Americans in the United States," …
From "History of Emigration to Hiroshima Prefecture" As mentioned last time , Hiroshima Prefecture, where Kato Shinichi was born, was an "immigration prefecture" that sent out the largest number of people overseas during the Meiji period. Looking at the number of immigrants nationwide, we can see that there are large …
Did you leave Japan to make a name for yourself? According to his profile in "The Centennial History of Japanese Americans in the United States," his father, Matsujiro, left his newborn son, Shinichi, and his wife in Hiroshima in the year Shinichi was born (1900) and went to America. It …
Harada Tomin confirms death Even after turning 80, Shinichi Kato was still devoted to peace activities such as disarmament issues. He died suddenly of a cerebral infarction at his home on the morning of February 9, 1982. His wife, Akiko, was born in the United States and preferred a modern …
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