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Most Japanese language online historical newspapers are either from the Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection or from World War II Interment camps.
The Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection through Stanford University’s Hoover Institution Library & Archives and the Japanese Diaspora Initiative (JDI) is “currently the world’s largest online archive of open-access, full‑image Japanese American and other overseas Japanese newspapers. Most publications present a mix of content in Japanese and English, with formats and the proportionality of Japanese/English often changing as a reflection of shifting business and social circumstances.”
There are about 215 free titles of Japanese American newspapers available for online searching. There are a few that require a login to the Stanford University network. These are not included in the list below.
Here are the titles by state:
Arkansas
- Communiqué (Denson, Ark.) 1942-1943
- Denson Tribune (Denson, Ark.) 1943-1944
- Rohwer Relocator (McGehee, Ark.) 1945-1945
- The Rohwer Outpost (Rohwer [i.e. McGehee] Ark.) 1942-1945
Arizona
- Gila Bulletin ([Rivers, Ariz.]) 1945-1945
- Gila Co-Op News ([Rivers, Ariz.]) 1943-1945
- Gila News-Courier (Rivers, Arizona) 1942-1945
- Official Daily Press Bulletin (Poston, Ariz.) 1942-1942
- Official Information Bulletin (Poston, Ariz.) 1942-1942
- Poston Christian Church (Poston, Ariz.) 1942-1945
- Poston Chronicle (Poston, Ariz.) 1942-1945
- Press Bulletin (Poston, Ariz.) 1942-1942
- Relocator News Week ([Rivers, Ariz.]) 1943-194?
- Gila River – Gila River Calendar
- Parker – もはべ
- Sacaton – Gila Co-op News = 組合週報
California
- Manzanar Free Press (Manzanar, Calif.) 1942-1945
- Santa Anita Pacemaker (Santa Anita, Calif) 1942-1942
- Tanforan Totalizer ([San Bruno, Calif.]) 1942-1942
- The Daily Tulean Dispatch (Newell, Calif.) 1942-1943
- The Newell Star (Newell, Calif.) 1944-1946
- The Tule Lake Wra Center Information Bulletin (Newell, Calif.) 1944-1944
- The Tulean Dispatch (Newell, Calif.) 1943-1943
- The Tulean Dispatch (Tule Lake, Calif.) 1942-1942
- Tulean Dispatch Daily (Newell, Calif.) 1943-1943
- Nichibei [Japanese American News] (San Francisco, 1912-1932)
- Shin Nichibei (Los Angeles, 1947-1966)
- Shin sekai [New World] (San Francisco, 1912-1932)
- Shinsekai asahi shinbun [New World Sun] (San Francisco, 1932-1941)
- Fresno – Fresno Grapevine (Fresno Center News)
- Fresno – Pinedale Logger
- Los Angeles – 加州毎日新聞 = The Japan California Daily News
- Los Angeles – 同胞
- Los Angeles – 平民 = The Hei-Min
- Los Angeles – 新日米 = New Japanese American Daily News
- Los Angeles – 羅府団団珍聞 = The Los Angeles Japanese Advertiser
- Los Angeles – 羅府新報 = The Rafu Shimpo
- Los Angeles – 階級戦 = The Class Struggle
- Manzanar – Manzanar Free Press
- Marysville – Arbo-Gram
- Merced – The Mercedian
- Oakland – 北米評論 = The Hokubei Hyoron
- Oakland – 新日本
- Pomona – Pomona Center News
- Sacramento – Walerga Wasp
- Sacramento – 櫻府新報
- Sacramento – 櫻府新聞= The Ohfu Shimbun
- Sacramento – 櫻府日報= The Sacramento Daily News
- Salinas – Village Crier
- San Francisco – Japan Tribune
- San Francisco – Zaibei Nihonjin Shi: History of Japanese in America
- San Francisco – アメリカ新聞
- San Francisco – ときのこゑ = The War Cry
- San Francisco – 北米朝日新聞
- San Francisco – 北米毎日新聞= North American Daily
- San Francisco – 在米労働新聞 = The Japanese Worker in America
- San Francisco – 在米日本人史
- San Francisco – 太平新聞
- San Francisco – 平民
- San Francisco – 志やぱんへらるど = The Daily Japan Herald
- San Francisco – 愛国 = Ai Koku
- San Francisco – 新世界 = The New World
- San Francisco – 新世界日日新聞 = The New World Daily News
- San Francisco – 新世界朝日新聞 = The New World Sun
- San Francisco – 新天地
- San Francisco – 日米新聞 = Japanese American News
- San Francisco – 桑港の栞
- San Francisco – 桑港文庫 = San Francisco Journal
- San Francisco – 桑港新報 = The San Francisco
- San Francisco – 桑港新聞 = The Soko Shimbun
- San Francisco – 桑港日本新聞 = S.F. Japan Herald
- San Francisco – 桑港時事 = San Francisco Times
- San Francisco – 桑港評論 = The San Francisco Review
- San Francisco – 独立
- San Francisco – 第十九世紀 = The Nineteenth Century
- San Francisco – 第十九世紀新聞 = The Nineteenth Century
- San Francisco – 腮はづ誌
- San Francisco – 自由 = The Liberty
- San Francisco – 遠征= The Expedition
- San Francisco – 金門日報 = The Golden Gate News
- San Francisco – 階級戦
- Santa Anita – Santa Anita Pacemaker
- Stockton – El Joaquin
- Stockton – Stockton Calvary Presbyterian Nisei News
- Stockton – 須市長老教会週報
- Tulelake – 在鶴嶺湖広島県人名簿 (Directory of People from Hiroshima Prefecture at Tule Lake)
- Tulelake – 怒涛
- Tulelake – 柔道創立一周年記念
- Tulelake – 鶴嶺湖事報：さらば同胞よ (Tule Lake Jiho: Farewell, My Compatriots)
- Arbo-Gram (4)
- Fresno Grapevine (45)
- Manzanar Free Press (Manzanar, Calif.) 1942 to 1945
- Manzanar Free Press (409)
- Mercedian (21)
- Newell Star (110
- Pinedale Logger (9)
- Pomona Center News (24)
- Salinas Village Crier (8)
- Santa Anita Pacemaker (Santa Anita, Calif)
- Santa Anita Pacemaker (105)
- Stockton El Joaquin (34)
- Tanforan Totalizer ([San Bruno, Calif.]) 1942 to 1942
- Tanforan Totalizer (20)
- The Daily Tulean Dispatch (Newell, Calif.) 1942 to 1943
- The Newell Star (Newell, Calif.) 1944 to 1946
- The Tule Lake Wra Center Information Bulletin (Newell, Calif.) 1944 to 1944
- The Tulean Dispatch (Newell, Calif.) 1943 to 1943
- The Tulean Dispatch (Tule Lake, Calif.) 1942 to 1942
- Tulare News (30)
- Tulean Dispatch Daily (Newell, Calif.) 1943 to 1943
- Tulean Dispatch (430)
- Turlock TAC (7)
- Walerga Wasp (10)
- San Francisco – The Nikkei shimin
Colorado
- Bulletin (Granada, Colo.) 1942-1942
- Granada Pioneer (Amache, Colo.) 1942-1945
- Kakushu Jiji = Colorado Times (Denver, Colo.) 1918-1969
- Rokkī Shimpō = Rocky Shimpo (Denver, Colo.) 1943-1961
- Amache Hi It
- Colorado Shimbun
- Granada Bulletin
- Granada Pioneer
- Junior Pioneer
- Kakushu Jiji = Colorado Times
- Rocky Mountain JIHO
- Rocky Mountain Journal
- Rokkī Nippon = Rocky Nippon
- Rokkī Shimpō = Rocky Shimpo
- Santo jiji = The Santo Times
- Denver – コロラド新聞 = The Colorado Shimbun
- Denver – ロッキー新報 = The Rocky Shimpo
- Denver – ロッキー日本 = The Rocky Nippon
- Denver – 山東時事 = The Santo Times
- Granada – Amache Telephone Service
- Granada – Guide to Relocation
- Granada – アマチ同胞人名録 (Amache Japanese Directory)
- Granada – 共同消費組合
- Granada – 外住せんとする人々の心得 = Resettlement Handbook
District of Columbia
- Washington – Washington – 一世達の新家庭 = New Homes for the Issei
- Washington – Washington – 各転住所内に現在居住して居る日系人の隔離 (The Segregation of Japanese Americans Currently Residing at Various Relocation Centers)
Hawaii
- Hilo – ヒロ新報 = The Hilo Shimpo
- Hilo – 布哇人物評論
- Hilo – 布哇朝日 = The Hawaii Asahi
- Hilo – 布哇植民新聞 = Hawaii Shokumin Shinbun
- Hilo – 布哇毎日 = The Hawaii Mainichi
- Hilo – 楽園 = The Paradise
- Hilo – 火山新聞 = The Kwazan
- Hilo/Honolulu – 布哇商業
- Holualoa – コナ反響 = Kona Echo
- Honolulu – Hawaii Herald
- Honolulu – Hawaii Times = 布哇タイムス
- Honolulu – Labor Review of Hawaii
- Honolulu – The Hawaii Star = ハワイスター
- Honolulu – Voice of Labor
- Honolulu – ハワイ報知 ＝ The Hawaii Hochi
- Honolulu – ほのる々新聞 = The Honolulu News
- Honolulu – やまと = The Yamato
- Honolulu – やまと新聞 = Yamato Shinbun
- Honolulu – 實業之布哇 = The Jitsugyo-no-Hawaii
- Honolulu – 布中タイムス = The Japanese High School Times
- Honolulu – 布哇サンデイ・ニュース = The Hawaii Sunday News
- Honolulu – 布哇プランテーションクロニクル = Hawaii Plantation Chronicle
- Honolulu – 布哇密教 = Hawaii Mikkyo
- Honolulu – 布哇成功者実伝
- Honolulu – 布哇文苑 = The Hawaii Bunen
- Honolulu – 布哇新報 = Hawaii Shinpo
- Honolulu – 布哇新聞 = The Hawaii Shim-Bun
- Honolulu – 布哇日日新聞 = The Hawaiian-Japanese Daily Chronicle
- Honolulu – 布哇毎日新聞 = Hawai Mainichi Shimbun
- Honolulu – 教團時報 = Kyodan Jiho (Buddhist Child)
- Honolulu – 日布時事 = The Daily Nippu Jiji
- Honolulu – 日本週報
- Honolulu – 更生沖縄 = Kosei Okinawa
- Honolulu – 法友
- Honolulu – 火山 = The Volcano
- Honolulu – 週刊布哇新報 = The Weekly Hawaii Shimpo
- Honolulu – 鐘暁
- Kealakekua – 向上 = The Kojyo
- Koloa – 洋園時報 = The Yoen Jiho
- Lihue – 加哇新報
- Paia – Maco Breeze
- Puunene – H. C. & S. Breeze
- Wailuku – 馬哇レコード = The Maui Record
- Wailuku – 馬哇新聞 = The Maui Shinbun
- Waipahu – がくゑん = The Gakuen
Idaho
Illinois
- Chicago – Chicago – シカゴ新報 = Chicago Shimpo
Massachusetts
- Boston – Boston – Introducing New England
New Mexico
- Lordsburg – Lordsburg – 神道大要
New York
- Heimin / 平民 [The Heimin], (San Francisco, CA/New York, NY)
- Nichibei Jihō / 日米時報 [Japanese American Commercial Weekly], (New York, NY)
- Nyū Yōku Shinpō / 紐育新報 [The Japanese Times], (New York, NY)
Oregon
- Portland – Portland – Evacuazette
- Portland – Portland – 央州日報 = The Oregon News
Texas
- Crystal City – Crystal City – 米国テキサス州クリスタル市戦時抑留所日本人名簿 (Roster of Japanese at the Crystal City WWII Camp, Texas, USA)
Utah
- All Aboard (Topaz, Utah) 194?-194?
- Bussei Life (Topaz, Utah) 1943-1943
- Topaz Times (Topaz, Utah) 1942-1945
- Trek ([Topaz, Utah]) 1942-1943
- Delta – トパーズ消費組合二周年記念誌 (Topaz Consumer Cooperative: Second Anniversary Commemorative Booklet)
- Delta – 暁炎
- Salt Lake City – ユタ日報 = The Utah Nippo
Washington
- Puyallup – Camp Harmony News-Letter
- Seattle – Japanese-American Courier
- Seattle – あかつき
- Seattle – あめりか = The America
- Seattle – シアトル日本人長老教会週報
- Seattle – ドンチキ = The Donchiki
- Seattle – 北米教報 = The North American Christian Advocate
- Seattle – 北米時事 = The North American Times
- Seattle – 大北日報 = The Great Northern Daily News
- Seattle – 日本人 = The Japanese
- Seattle – 日米評論 = The Nichi Bei Hyoron
- Seattle – 旭新聞 = Asahi Shin Bun
Wyoming
- Hāto Maunten Senchineru : Japanese Edition of Heart Mountain Sentinel (Heart Mountain, Wyo.) 1942-1945
- Heart Mountain Sentinel (Cody, Wyoming) 1942-1945
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