Junichi Sumi Born in Shimane Prefecture in 1973. After graduating from Aoyama Gakuin University with a BA in International Politics and Economics, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) in ...

Thank you for this opportunity to provide further information on the status of our documentary film in progress, “Our Mr. Matsura.” Surveyor Chelsea Woodward and Matsura The film tells the story of ...

Bruce Harrell, former Seattle City Council member for twelve years (2007-2019), has rare life experience as a biracial child of an African American father and Japanese American mother. Growing up in ...

NAP contributor Monica recently visited the Japanese Overseas Migration Museum, known as the JICA Museum (Japan International Cooperation Agency), Yokohama. The museum was renovated in 2022 for its ...

Travis Suzaka is a Seattle Yonsei, a fourth-generation Japanese American. He is presently completing a Master’s degree in Design at the Paris College of Art while working as a freelance designer.

The Seattle Betsuin Buddhist Temple, whose summer Bon Odori is widely known in Seattle, has a history of more than 120 years. To belatedly mark the temple’s anniversary, we asked Rimban (head minister ...

Detail of the first page of the diary, reproduced on the book cover, where Seattle painter Kamekichi Tokita records his thoughts the evening of the Pearl Harbor attack. The original diary can be ...

シアトル時事ニュースや日系コミュニティー情報を和英バイリンガルで発信する「北米報知」 ...

This series explores the history of the pre-war Japanese community in Seattle, by reviewing articles in “The North American Times,” which have been digitally archived by the University of Washington ...

On the street level, an Asian-inspired restaurant and café is expected to open in 2022. By Misa Murohashi The North American Post Served by Link Light Rail, Amtrak, Sounder trains, and multiple Metro ...

During this period, the Post covered major local stories involving Japanese people. In 1992, when Hiroshi Yamauchi, the president of Nintendo, a Japan-based company, extended an offer to buy the ...

In 1886, the 13-year-old Tsunekichi Okura became the head of the family and the 11th generation owner of Kasagiya. He led Gekkeikan’s leap forward in the Meiji Era. In later years, he poured his ...