Pacific Citizen
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The Pacific Citizen is an award-winning Asian-Pacific American semi-monthly newspaper with a distribution of 50,000 throughout the United States and Japan.
Working together with the JACL, the nation's oldest and largest APA civil rights organization, the Pacific Citizen is committed to delivering the most incisive coverage of important APA stories that are often ignored by other media outlets.
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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, California-based newspaper was a lifeline for the Japanese-American community.
At the outbreak of World War II and the subsequent 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 is still currently based.
In 2005, staff members Caroline Aoyagi-Stom and Lynda Lin won New America Media Awards recognizing excellence in writing.
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