North American Post
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The North American Post (Hokubei Hochi) is a newspaper
based in Seattle, Washington
's International District
. It was founded in 1902 and is the largest and oldest Japanese-language
newspaper published in the Pacific Northwest
.
Originally called the Hokubei JiJi (The North American Times), the newspaper was issued daily from 1902 until 1942, when it and two other local Japanese newspapers ceased publication due to the internment
of its staff and core readership. In 1946, the paper was restarted under the name Hokubei Hochi (The North American Post). Its publisher was Sadahiko Ikoma.
From 1946 to the end of 1948 the North American Post was issued weekly and then started publishing three times a week. In March 1950, it increased to a daily issued five days a week. In March, 1981, the newspaper reduced its frequency to three times a week. It now puts out two issues a week: the Saturday edition is Japanese-only; the Wednesday edition has both English and Japanese sections.
Newspaper
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based in Seattle, Washington
Seattle, Washington
Seattle is the county seat of King County, Washington. With 608,660 residents as of the 2010 Census, Seattle is the largest city in the Northwestern United States. The Seattle metropolitan area of about 3.4 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the country...
's International District
International District, Seattle, Washington
The Chinatown-International District of Seattle, Washington is an ethnic enclave neighborhood and is the center of Seattle's Asian American community. The neighborhood is multiethnic, consisting mainly of people who are of Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino ethnicity...
. It was founded in 1902 and is the largest and oldest Japanese-language
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
newspaper published in the Pacific Northwest
Pacific Northwest
The Pacific Northwest is a region in northwestern North America, bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west and, loosely, by the Rocky Mountains on the east. Definitions of the region vary and there is no commonly agreed upon boundary, even among Pacific Northwesterners. A common concept of the...
.
Originally called the Hokubei JiJi (The North American Times), the newspaper was issued daily from 1902 until 1942, when it and two other local Japanese newspapers ceased publication due to the internment
Japanese American internment
Japanese-American internment was the relocation and internment by the United States government in 1942 of approximately 110,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese who lived along the Pacific coast of the United States to camps called "War Relocation Camps," in the wake of Imperial Japan's attack on...
of its staff and core readership. In 1946, the paper was restarted under the name Hokubei Hochi (The North American Post). Its publisher was Sadahiko Ikoma.
From 1946 to the end of 1948 the North American Post was issued weekly and then started publishing three times a week. In March 1950, it increased to a daily issued five days a week. In March, 1981, the newspaper reduced its frequency to three times a week. It now puts out two issues a week: the Saturday edition is Japanese-only; the Wednesday edition has both English and Japanese sections.