The Pacific Citizen

Since September 1929, the print edition of the Pacific Citizen has been the leading national newspaper for the APA community. Originally called the Nikkei Shimin (Japanese American Citizen), the San Francisco-based newspaper was a lifeline for the Japanese American community.

At the outbreak of World War II and the subsequent unjust internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans, the Pacific Citizen was moved to Salt Lake City, Utah where editor Larry Tajiri was hired to continue publishing a weekly newspaper to keep the fragmented community informed. After WWII, the Pacific Citizen returned to the West Coast in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo where the newspaper’s operations are still currently based.

Around 2014, Densho and the Pacific Citizen established a partnership to digitize and make accessible a full run of the newspaper from 1929 through 1996.

63 Collections

Collection Pacific Citizen 1983 Collection (ddr-pc-55)

Collection contains all of the editions of the Pacific Citizen from 1983.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-55/

Collection Pacific Citizen 1984 Collection (ddr-pc-56)

The Pacific Citizen 1984 Collection contains all the editions of the Pacific Citizen published in 1984. Pacific Citizen, Vol. 98, No. 5 is missing because it was not present in the bound volume scanned by Densho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-56/

Collection Pacific Citizen 1985 Collection (ddr-pc-57)

The Pacific Citizen 1985 Collection contains all the editions of the Pacific Citizen published in 1985.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-57/

Collection Pacific Citizen 1986 Collection (ddr-pc-58)

The Pacific Citizen 1986 Collection contains all the editions of the Pacific Citizen published in 1986.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-58/

Collection Pacific Citizen 1987 Collection (ddr-pc-59)

The Pacific Citizen 1987 Collection contains all the editions of the Pacific Citizen published in 1987.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-59/

Collection Pacific Citizen 1988 Collection (ddr-pc-60)

The Pacific Citizen 1988 Collection contains all the editions of the Pacific Citizen published in 1988.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-60/

Collection Pacific Citizen 1989 Collection (ddr-pc-61)

The Pacific Citizen 1989 Collection contains all the editions of the Pacific Citizen published in 1989.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-61/

Collection Pacific Citizen 1990 Collection (ddr-pc-62)

All of the issues of the Pacific Citizen from the year 1990.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-62/

Collection Pacific Citizen 1991 Collection (ddr-pc-63)

The Pacific Citizen 1991 Collection contains all the editions of the Pacific Citizen published in 1991.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-63/

Collection Pacific Citizen 1992 Collection (ddr-pc-64)

The Pacific Citizen 1992 Collection contains all the editions of the Pacific Citizen published in 1992.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-64/

Collection Pacific Citizen 1993 Collection (ddr-pc-65)

The Pacific Citizen 1993 Collection contains all the editions of the Pacific Citizen published in 1993.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-65/

Collection Pacific Citizen 1995 Collection (ddr-pc-67)

The Pacific Citizen 1995 Collection contains all the editions of the Pacific Citizen published in 1995.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-67/

Collection Pacific Citizen 1996 Collection (ddr-pc-68)

The Pacific Citizen 1996 Collection contains all the editions of the Pacific Citizen published in 1996.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-68/