UPDATE:  First set of digitized issues of the old Hokubei Jijiji (North American Times) and Hokubei Hochi (North American Post) are now available for public viewing!

We continue to need bilingual translators and project sponsorships. No prior experience needed. Donation is welcome and appreciated! – Donate from here

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http://content.lib.washington.edu/otherprojects/nikkei/.


The Foundation has sponsored a groundbreaking project to digitize the historic and current issues of The North American Post and North American Times newspapers. We are pleased to announce that these two Japanese language newspapers are now digitized and accessible to the public via the University of Washington’s Digital Collections website.

A community reception was held to unveil the new website for the digitized issues of the Seattle-based Hokubei Jiji (North American Times) and Hokubei Hochi (North American Post).  This is the culmination of over four years of work by sponsors Hokubei Hochi Foundation, University of Washington Libraries (Suzzallo and Paul Allen) and Digital Initiatives.

Over 6,000 pages, primarily in Japanese, of old issues have been and continue to be uploaded onto the website: http://content.lib.washington.edu/otherprojects/nikkei/.

Now readers from around the world can view past issues that contain fascinating coverage of local community, national, and global events as they actually unfolded.  We are currently translating the titles and article summaries of each front page from Japanese to English.

This is the only such digital project involving a Japanese language newspapers in the U.S.  We believe that to study the cultural, social, and political history and heritage of a region, readers must go beyond ‘mainstream’ papers to reach diverse viewpoints.  These Japanese community newspapers tells the stories of families, businesses and activities as told in the pages and are an important and unique part of the development of the American West.

Even the newspaper advertisements are important as economic indicators of the period.

We are far from finished as there are many thousands more pages to be scanned and uploaded, and we expect this project could continue for years.  Once complete, this will be the first full collection and it is hoped that many more Japanese American newspapers can be added to this database.

For more information on the project, contact Elaine Ikoma Ko, elaine@hokubeihochi.org, or Glenda Pearson, pearson@uw.edu.

4Culture provided seed funding for this project. (www.4culture.org).  Matching funds were also provided as a match through the Japanese American Chamber of Commerce through seeyourimpact.org. The UW Libraries Digital Initiatives Program and the Suzzallo Allen Libraries Microfilm Department are key partners in this project. The post-WWII North American Post (Hokubei hōchi) newspaper dates back to 1946.  The pre-WWII paper up until the Japanese American internment was published under The North American Times (Hokubei jiji) beginning in 1902.  Most of the early issues of both papers are written in Japanese.

We continue to need bilingual translators and project sponsorships. No prior experience needed. Donation is welcome and appreciated! – Donate from here

More Information or to get involved, contact info@hokubeihochi.org.


日系新聞のデジタル化、そして公共からのアクセスが可能になったことをお知らせします。
シアトルを拠点としている北米時事(ノースアメリカンタイムズ)と北米報知(ノースアメリカンポスト)のデジタル化に伴う新しいウェブサイトの開設を記念するパーティーが6月8日に行われました。

元々日本語で発行されていた6000以上の過去の記事が下記ウェブサイトにて公開され、更新が続けられていきます。

現在、地域そして国内外で実際に話題になった出来事が綴られた過去の記事が世界中からご覧いただけます。北米報知では現在、タイトルとそれぞれのページの要約を英語に翻訳しています。
アメリカ国内において、このような日系新聞のデジタル化は、このプロジェクトのみです。文化や社会、政治的な背景、地域の伝統を学ぶにあたり、多用な視点に触れ見地を広めることは欠かせません。これらの日系新聞は記事でもご覧いただけるよう、コミュニティーやビジネス、様々な活動についての情報を提供しています。そしてそれらの情報はアメリカ西部の発展においての特色であり重要な部分です。

新聞広告も、その時期の経済の指標として、重要なものとなります。
このプロジェクトの遂行にあたり、これから何千もの記事をスキャンしアップロードしていく必要がありますので、これらの作業は数年間継続されます。完成を迎えた際には最初の記事集になります。そして、さらには、より多くの日系アメリカ新聞がここに加えられていくことを願っています。

2020年現在、同アーカイブプロジェクトの再開に向けてドネーションを募っています。献金はこちらから


このプロジェクトについての詳しい情報は info@hokubeihochi.org までお問い合わせ下さい。