The Northwest Times (Seattle, Wash.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
819 issues from 1947 to 1955, published in Seattle, Washington, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Northwest Times (1947-1955), an English-language newspaper serving Japanese American readers based out of Seattle, Washington, was founded by Shigekazu Budd Fukei on January 1, 1947. At the turn of the twentieth century, several Japanese- and English-language newspapers, such as the Hokubei Jiji (The North American Times) and the Japanese American Courier, sprang up in the greater Seattle area. However, after the attacks on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, pressure from the federal government led to the closure of all Japanese newspapers on the West Coast by May of 1942. In the postwar period, new Japanese-language papers such as the Seattle Hokubei Hochi (North American Post) emerged, but there were no English-language papers dedicated to Japanese American topics for Nisei (second-generation Japanese Americans), a population on the rise and increasingly using English as a first language. As a result, Fukei established the Northwest Times in order to, in his words, “satisfy the appetite of the news-starved Japanese Americans who craved for stuff about the local and national Japanese American scene written in the American language.”
True to this vision, the Northwest Times offered news on a wide array of subjects, with a front page boasting articles ranging from major national news reports to local interest pieces. Editorials, often penned by Fukei, appeared on the first few pages, while local community news, events, religious organization announcements, sports…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Seattle, Washington, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress