JAPANESE NEWSPAPERS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 98, 24 February 1947, Page 6

JAPANESE NEWSPAPERS

PRODUCTION IN CHICAGO Two Japanese newspapers, one of them printed in the mother tongue, have started up with the object of helping Japanese-Americans fit into their new communities—states a message from Chicago. Today- Chicago has from 20,000 to 22,000 Japanese. Some 17,000 are United States citizens, most of them American-born. Some 5000 others, chiefly parents and older folk, came to Chicago from the Pacific Coast during the war and have decided to stay permanently. Ask Ryoichi Fugii, editor of the Chicago Simpo, weekly Japaneselanguage paper, what its policy is, and he replies it is mainly to show the Japanese people here • how to co-operate with the policy of the United States and to tell them what is going on among the Japanese in this country and in Japan. There is a need for a newspaper in their own language, he says, for many of the older Japanese cannot read English. Earle T. Yusa, publisher and editor of the recently founded Chicago Yenisi Courier, printed in English, says it tries to tell what is going on among the Nisei, or American-born Japanese, and to bring out their relationship and responsibility to their community. “We do not emphasise racial issues,” Mr Yusa said, adding: “I think if we do dwell on the conflicts that we get a little more fearful and feel the difference too much, which does not helps us to progress.”