Pacific Citizens by Larry S Tajiri Greg Robinson

Pacific Citizens by Larry S Tajiri Greg Robinson

Author:Larry S Tajiri, Greg Robinson [Larry S Tajiri, Greg Robinson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780252093838
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Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2012-03-15T00:00:00+00:00


3. LETTER TO ALAN CRANSTON

April 25, 1942

Dear Alan:

Just received your letter of the 22nd.

The paper I’m supposed to edit from Salt Lake City, “The Pacific Citizen,” hasn’t suspended publication. The paper was being published as an organizational monthly from San Francisco and has suspended its activities there under their former management.

However, we plan to resume publication of the paper as a weekly from Salt Lake City as soon as evacuation is completed and we know where our readers are.

We hope to change everything about the paper except the name and will aim for a circulation that will reach outside the membership of the organization. Of course, the economic dislocation suffered by members of our group because of evacuation will hit us hard and we don’t know whether it will be feasible to carry on the paper wholly on the basis of subscriptions.

As Noguchi informed you, the Nichi-Bei is the only Japanese newspaper now being published on the Pacific Coast. Its publishers have announced that it will continue to the last—but its days are numbered since San Francisco will probably be completely evacuated by Japanese within the next two weeks. The Nichi-Bei management is making an attempt to continue publication outside Military Area 1. They have leased a building in Del Rey, a few miles from Fresno, but since the abortive “race riot” in Del Rey last week I presume the Nichi-Bei people are dropping the idea of moving out there. I understand that they are now interested in coming out to Salt Lake City but doubt that they will. Any movement by them out of Military Area 1 must be made, of course, with the permission of Western Defense Headquarters since the Army orders freezing travel outside Military One is still in effect.

The other papers, which had continued publishing up to this date, have announced in their most recent issues that they are suspending publication. These are DOHO (English-Japanese weekly) in Los Angeles, Great Northern Daily (English-Japanese daily) in Seattle, and the Japanese American Courier (all-English weekly) in Seattle. The Sangyo Nippo (English-Japanese daily) in Los Angeles folded about two weeks ago, while the Rafu Shimpo (L.A. Japanese Daily News—English-Japanese daily) and the California Daily News (Kashu Mainichi) (English-Japanese daily) suspended about the time of the first evacuation to Manzanar. In Seattle the North American Times was closed by Treasury Department order about a month ago. Seems they had some trouble with taxes, or something. The other large San Francisco daily, the New World Sun, was shut down on December 8 and never reopened. Its ownership was vested in the hands of men whose accounts were “frozen” by treasury regulations. The two Portland papers Oregon Times (daily) and Coast Times (weekly) also had difficulties with the Treasury.

At present there are three Japanese vernaculars publishing outside the West Coast area. These three, however, are limited in circulation and influence. They are the Utah Nippo (English-Japanese semi-weekly) in Salt Lake City and the Colorado Times and the Rocky Nippon in Denver.

You’ve probably



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