The Nippu Jiji (日布時事, nippu jiji), later published as the Hawaii Times, was a Japanese-English language newspaper based in Honolulu, Hawai'i. Established as the Yamato Shimbun by Shintaro Anno in 1895, the paper began as a six-page semi-weekly printed on a lithograph machine, and changed hands four times before being taken over by Yasutaro "Keiho" Soga in 1905. Soga changed the name of the paper to the Nippu Jiji, Japanese for "newspaper for telling timely news," on November 3, 1906, and under his direction the paper was expanded to a twelve-page daily printed on a rotary press with a circulation of 15,000.[1]
The paper gained prominence through its support of the territory-wide strikes of sugarcane plantation workers in 1909 and 1920, publishing sympathetic editorial columns and featuring extensive reports on the often slave-like living and working conditions of the, in many cases indentured, laborers.[1][2] Also active in covering legislative attempts to curb the practice of Japanese language education in the islands (and the subsequent lawsuit against the territorial government), the Nippu Jiji became a key source of information for Japanese Americans in Hawaii before World War II and continued to wield a significant influence through the war years and after. The paper ceased operations in 1985.
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The NippuJiji (日布時事, nippujiji), later published as the Hawaii Times, was a Japanese-English language newspaper based in Honolulu, Hawai'i. Established...
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leader among Hawaii's Japanese residents, serving as chief editor of the NippuJiji, then the largest Japanese-language newspaper in Hawaii and the mainland...
Walsh, David J. (2 April 1933). "'Bums' Hardest Hitters in Ring". The NippuJiji. Honolulu, Hawaii. International News Service. Mullan. Boxing Quotations...
Confer Awards". Japan Info. Summer 2006. Retrieved 12 October 2011. "NippuJiji 1936.06.04 Edition 03 – Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection". hojishinbun...
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workers were paid. During the same year, Negoro began writing for the NippuJiji, which was published by Soga. He wrote articles that fanned the flames...
the Bishop Estate Building on Merchant Street (1896), the Irwin Block (NippuJiji building) on Nuuanu Street (1897), and Progress Block on Fort Street (1897)...
of Honor: The Untold Story of a Nisei Spy. University of Hawaii Press. NippuJiji 1941.03.10: Page 3 "Secret agent Arthur Komori". December 28, 2014. Archived...
"London Treaty Enhances Amity". Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection. Tokyo: The NippuJiji. 18 June 1930. p. 10. Retrieved 4 January 2018. "「田中 義一」の家系" ["Tanaka...
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rather doubtful so far as its plans are concerned." On July 28, 1924, the NippuJiji reported that "K. [sic] Kushibiki, a show man, well known among Americans...
Shisha, a tanka club in Honolulu, and also had a regular column in the NippuJiji. Mori married Misao Harada, daughter of Tasuku Harada, in 1921. They had...
Japanese). Archived from the original on 2018-12-08. Retrieved 2019-03-22. "NippuJiji 1936.06.04 Edition 03 — Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection". hojishinbun...
Yasutaro Soga, and worked to make the Yamato Shinbun (later renamed the NippuJiji) a daily newspaper. He also supported strikers during the 1909 Japanese...
of Laura Motoyuki Negoro, 1903 – strike leader and journalist for the NippuJiji and Hawaii Hochi Harlan G. Palmer, 1913 – publisher and owner of the Hollywood...
Association) with Motoyuki Negoro and Yasutaro Soga, the editor of the NippuJiji. During the strike, they and two other strike leaders were jailed together...
JSTOR 42771913. Soga, Yasutaro (January 15, 1928). "Incredibly Shocking Facts". NippuJiji. p. 2. Retrieved November 20, 2019 – via Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection...
January 1962 "Pal swimmers win; Warner sets new pro breast record", NippuJiji, p. 11, May 12, 1939 Chapin, John C., "Top of the Ladder: Marine Operations...
Retrieved 6 March 2021. "Hawaiian Paintings At Academy of Arts". The NippuJiji: Leading Japanese Newspaper in the Territory. March 31, 1928: 8. March...
Unlike other prominent Japanese-language newspaper editors, like the NippuJiji's Yasutaro Soga, Makino managed to avoid incarceration, and in 1952 the...
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