On January 1, 1928, a Japanese American publication, the Japanese-American Courier (1928-1942) distributes its first weekly. Jimmy Sakamoto (1903-1955) is editor and publisher and promotes the paper as the “First Japanese-American Journal published all in English.”
By 1930, its office was located at 317 Maynard Avenue in Seattle and in the early 1930s it moved to 214 5th Avenue S. It is likely that around 1940, the paper started publishing daily. The newspaper ceased operations on April 24, 1942, just before the U.S. Government forced the entire Japanese American community into internment camps during World War II.
Sources:
Polk's Seattle City Directory, 1930 (R. L. Polk and Co., 1930), 2076; Polk, 1935, p. 1757; Marlene Mitchell, "Washington Newspapers: Territorial and State: a Bibliography and Checklist," MA thesis in Communications, 1964, p. 134; University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; Washington State Union List of Newspapers on Microfilm ed. by Gayle Palmer (Olympia: Washington State Library, 1991), 169.
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